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I wonder what the Chinese government's long term plan is. Do they expect to just continue on with this heavily antagonistic relationship with the Uyghurs forev

by _cs2017_ 8y ago

I wonder what the Chinese government's long term plan is. Do they expect to just continue on with this heavily antagonistic relationship with the Uyghurs forever? Wouldn't that cause an increasing risk of some kind of an uprising? Or do they expect that after a generation or so, the Uyghurs will largely assimilate into the Han culture? Wouldn't that require a lot more subtle and delicate policy? In any case, I really doubt it's realistic; if it was, I'd think it would have already been done. Also, the example of the former USSR suggests that even in a highly authoritarian and centralized country, ethnic tensions remain.

xkcd-sucks 8y ago
Probably the latter. It's called "Hanification" 汉化, "han hua" where "han" refers to the Han ethnicity (not Chinese national identity which would instead be "zhong" 中). "Hua" means conversion. The phrase has existed for a very long time and it is an idea that people treat "seriously" like you see it in officially sanctioned writing
- thratchnee 8y ago
  中 is literally the word for middle or center, by itself it does not refer to the country. The term used to refer to national identity is 中华, which is the phrase used in China's official name. I'm confounded by how you could make such a bad mistake and still speak so confidently of Chinese racial relations. Imagine someone claiming the English term for British is simply the letter "U" and then going on to describe gentrification in Detroit. >The phrase has existed for a very long time and it is an idea that people treat "seriously" like you see it in officially sanctioned writing Complete non sequitur. The existance of a term for something does not mean that it's supported. If you actually read some of these "sanctioned writing"s you'd realize that the term is referred to in a negative sense in the same way the word gentrification is used. In fact it's mainly used in a historical context.

xkcd-sucks 8y ago

Probably the latter. It's called "Hanification" 汉化, "han hua" where "han" refers to the Han ethnicity (not Chinese national identity which would instead be "zhong" 中). "Hua" means conversion. The phrase has existed for a very long time and it is an idea that people treat "seriously" like you see it in officially sanctioned writing

thratchnee 8y ago
中 is literally the word for middle or center, by itself it does not refer to the country. The term used to refer to national identity is 中华, which is the phrase used in China's official name. I'm confounded by how you could make such a bad mistake and still speak so confidently of Chinese racial relations. Imagine someone claiming the English term for British is simply the letter "U" and then going on to describe gentrification in Detroit. >The phrase has existed for a very long time and it is an idea that people treat "seriously" like you see it in officially sanctioned writing Complete non sequitur. The existance of a term for something does not mean that it's supported. If you actually read some of these "sanctioned writing"s you'd realize that the term is referred to in a negative sense in the same way the word gentrification is used. In fact it's mainly used in a historical context.