Gallimard Quotes

Racism is one of the issues depicted in the play. The main character, René Gallimard, thought negatively on the Chinese and their culture even though he was in love with a Chinese woman. There are a lot of problems with his racism because it is fueled from his experiences in Paris. He felt that people of the West were lower than the people of the East. Gallimard also felt that Western woman should be with Eastern men because they needed their protection. Another way that his racism is expressed is through how be thought that the Chinese would side with whichever side was winning in the Vietnam War. Gallimard's perceptions were wrong and he looked down upon the Chinese and the Western cultures in general. These stereotypes that Gallimard
believed in would ultimately cause him to be lied to and manipulated. He thought he was in love with a normal Chinese woman, but it turns out that she was a male spy for the Chinese government who was undercover. Gallimard's racist theories and opinions were only to make himself feel superior and this is a problem because it does not represent the true ideal and practices of the Western culture and Western people.