"During the Boxer Rebellion, the rumor was spread that the orphanages run 
by European missionaries were in fact abattoirs where white doctors scooped the 
eyes out of the heads of Han babies to make medicine for European consumption. 
That many Han believed these rumors accounts for the extreme violence to which 
the Europeans were subjected during that rebellion. But it also reflects a 
regrettable predisposition to racial fear and hatred that is latent within the 
breasts of all human beings of all tribes.