Where in China are people called China’s “Jews”?

Chaoshan.

The first people to be called Oriental Jews were the Chaozhou people. Chaozhou people have made great achievements in all major fields in the world. They travel around and are good at doing business, but behind them there is an anti-Chinese movement that makes people sweat coldly, similar to the anti-Semitic anti-Semitism in the West.

At the beginning of the last century, King Maha Vajiravudh of Thailand signed Asavabahu to compare the Chinese, mainly Chaozhou people, in the territory to the Jews, to illustrate that the Chaozhou people are small in number but are hardworking and good at doing business, and control its economic lifeline.

However, this seemingly praising article had other intentions. Its words were full of hostility, which would have a great impact on the long-term anti-Chinese movement in Nanyang.

Extended information:

As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Chaoshan people who sailed across the sea to Southeast Asia in red-headed boats were known as one of the three major business gangs in China. (Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants are essentially government merchants, while Chaozhou merchants who originated from the end of the province are private merchants.) In the long history of more than 500 years, the fate of Chaozhou merchants has gone up and down several times along with the changes in the world structure.

However, it has not disappeared due to changes in the international situation or changes in dynasties. Today, Chaozhou businessmen have become the well-deserved number one group of Chinese businessmen in the world.

A large number of them have emerged, such as the richest Chinese (the richest man in Hong Kong), the richest man in Singapore, the richest man in Thailand, the richest man in the mainland, the richest man in Macau, the richest Chinese in Australia, the richest Chinese in Europe, the richest Chinese in Canada, the richest Chinese in Africa and many domestic The richest man in various provinces and cities is enough to give people the impression that "the richest are Chaoshan businessmen", and many major domestic and even Asian brands supported by Chaoshan people have always firmly controlled most areas of the Chinese private business community.

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