China tells its minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new law | CNN
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For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.

For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.

Now, that push has been codified into a sweeping new law that reaches into classrooms, neighborhoods and homes – and gives Beijing the right to target people outside of its borders that it believes violate its rules.

The statute, officially known as the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, came into effect on July 1. It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division” among China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities, which include a Han Chinese majority that makes up over 90% of the country’s 1.4 billion people.

  • BehavioralClamEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I mean, I don’t know how much are you familiar with the legislation and family and primary education programs in Western countries, but you can find really like just similar items in there that also indoctrinate our kids into loving and believing in the system in which we are functioning currently.

    You all sing the anathems of your countries, praise the flags, wear uniforms and are acknowledged with the supposed history that happened and built the nation, you inhabit blah, blah, blah. Like it’s all basic propaganda, like on the same level that you are here quoting from the Chinese state.

    But that’s even beyond the discussion of this article, since the article is claiming that there is like a genocidal or discriminatory intent in this legislation, when it’s literally the opposite of that.

    And also, there is a very general misinformation about the Han ethnicity in China. The Han ethnicity in China isn’t and never was homogeneous ethnic group, the Han was formed by the integration of other ethnical groups through the history of China, which by the way did it in a voluntary way.

    They didn’t genocided other populations like the western, predominantly pink ethnicity, have done in the course of centuries, but they just accepted the addition of the surrounding ethnicities into their own, which did it to gain favor with the richer provinces and kingdoms.

    The present Han are mix of dozens of older ethnicities.

    And China is currently following the same “tradition”.

    What they do not accept on our very strict against are the existence of a technical or cultural group that are proactively trying to divide themselves from the hegemonical or the status quo cultural background that China is trying to project.

    And for a good reason, because those groups are the ones that predominantly get undermined and infiltrated by foreign interests and end up creating ethnicities into their own, which did it to gain favor with the ruling classes, which did it to gain a better division and chaos in the regime, which we already have seen happening in other countries including Russia, where the Chechens were used by Saudis and US for that same reason.

    Sure, forceful integration in these cases isnt the “cleanest” solution, but its far more effective and human than the discriminatory and alienating policies of the west, that market “diversity and democracy”, only on certain levels, while the top is all pink, male, “judeo-christian”.