Paternalism is just a different word for oppression. It encodes the power relationship, but with the implication of care. Ask the Uighers, Tibetans, and the Ho

Paternalism is just a different word for oppression. It encodes the power relationship, but with the implication of care. Ask the Uighers, Tibetans, and the Hong Kongers, or even the Taiwanese what they think of china's "Paternalism," or if they feel China is a caring "parent." > A lot of the ethnic tension simply comes from minorities seeing such paternalism as condescending. This is an equivocated way of saying ethnic minorities feel oppressed by the ethnic ruling class. > the Han see themselves as best apt to govern and guide the other ethnic groups This statement seems like barely concealed "Han supremacy". Your words say the architecture of china is an ethnostate while the phrasing is a facade of benevolence.