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But isn't exoticizing lovers a lot of what the genre is about?
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No, it's not.
Perhaps you are confusing the romance genre with
National Geographic? Both tend to have pretty, colorful covers, and have a problematic past they are trying to improve from, so it might be an easy mistake to make.
If you seriously want to know what the romance genre is about, you can read
Do Not Mess with the Happy Ever After: defining the romance novel by KJ Charles. (Spoiler: It's a four letter word. No, not that one. No, not that one either.
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Real-life dukes and duchesses might have a lot more reason to dislike the genre than do the Chinese.
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I applaud you for standing up for vulnerable minorities who are victims of predudice.
I'll even help you out: There are several groups who are hurt as much as or worse than Chinese people by bigoted books in the romance genre (and, I suspect, in other genres): Black people, disabled people, and queer people spring to mind. But just because some other groups have it worse doesn't mean that everybody else should refrain from talking about things that harm them. Most people can have more than one thought in their head at the same time, and care about more than one social issue at a time.
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But I very much doubt the vast number of titles, where earls are an object of fascination, whips up a generalized hatred against the nobility, much less anti-British animus.
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Um, you... you have no idea how racism works? None at all?
If this is indeed a good faith argument, and not just an attempt at being cute, I can try to dig up some articles for you. Hey, I just googled "racism 101", and
this one looks like a good starting point.