Demographic panic can attach itself to any newly salient migrant group.

Evidence

According to the Office for National Statistics, the nonwhite population in Britain declined by 0.1 per cent in 2005, while the Chinese population grew by 11 per cent as a result of immigration. Such figures suggest that it may not be long before US foreign policy hawks announce a new threat to European ‘values’ posed by the alien representatives of a hermetically sealed Confucian culture, incapable of integration or assimilation and intent on absorbing the remants of Eurabia into another empire from the East. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 86

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how today’s ‘Yellow Peril 2.0’ framing about China mirrors earlier Muslim-panic discourse verbatim.
• CANDY: Nonwhite UK population shrank 0.1% in 2005 while the Chinese population grew 11% — a fun stat that undercuts the panic.