The Chinese – Slitty eyed crooks

This year, the red dot: junior prize with its 10,000 euros prize money goes to Dennis Dominguez from Cologne for his book “Stereotype”. This publication deals with prejudices and national stereotypes, a topic that is visually presented in a highly entertaining as well as bold way, like this example of the Chinese. 

The Chinese have slitty eyes, bad teeth, and yellow skin. They spit on the street and on their own tables, eat like pigs, and prefer roasted dog or cat to rice as a side dish. These assertions even seem harmless compared with what Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi said in 2001 about the Chinese: “I am accused of having said that communists eat babies. You’ll see for yourself that in the China of Mao they even boiled babies to fertilise the fields with them.” Grotesque—but merely one of many prejudices, such as that the Chinese are industrious, friendly, polite, and have a permanent smile on their face.
 
Designer Dennis Dominguez has taken it upon himself to illustrate the most population dense country of the world with a globe that is nearly eclipsed by the throngs of people huddered on top of it. The image evokes the zillions of Chinese who work away at slave wages to manufacture cheap exports, as well as the corrupt party officials who let themselves be chauffeured through “their empire” in luxury limousines. China’s new class of billionaires is likewise a truly bizarre bunch with their penchant for French castle replicas, albeit with golden toilet bowls!

More information about the red dot: junior prize are available here.