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China tells its minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new law (edition.cnn.com)
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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.

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.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

So you're saying that the Chinese are using western so-called "dog whistles" to... Refer to what exactly? Ethnic minorities of China are Chinese culture.... Are you for preserving that culture or for eradicating it?

I have a contact who's a qualified Chinese translator, I'm running the sentence "支持开展中华优秀传统文化的宣传和推广" by them. Although to me the translation of the wording matches similarly to what China promotes in it's tourism advertising campaigns.

[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm just not a genocide denier. That's basically it.

I'm pointing out that you're being intentionally obtuse to cast doubt on the existence of said genocide and I think it's monstrous. Just in case someone who isn't a CCP agent is actually buying any of it.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you deny the so-called "white genocide"? I deny it, maybe that makes me a genocide denier.

The outstanding traditional cultures of all ethnic groups are integral parts of Chinese culture.

I literally says that traditional cultures of all ethnic groups in China constitute Chinese culture. This makes perfect sense. French culture is European culture. Scottish culture is British culture. English culture is British culture. Scottish culture is European culture. Texan culture is American culture. Californian culture is American culture. Han culture is Chinese culture. Miao culture is Chinese culture. Uyghur culture is Chinese culture. Guangzhou culture is Chinese culture. Hong Kong culture is Chinese culture. Beijing culture is Chinese culture. Taiwanese culture is Chinese culture. Hainan culture is Chinese culture. Tibetan culture is Chinese culture. New York culture is American culture. German culture is European culture. Chinese culture is Asian culture.

Stating these things isn't perpetuating genocide. It just makes sense.

[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

More hand waving. Uyghur genocide is well documented and denying it based on what state controlled media says is your problem. You've typed paragraphs and paragraphs but you've said nothing of substance. Your point remains that the equivalent of Fox News in China said it's not happening so everyone must believe them. Netanyahu says there's no genocide in Palestine, CCP says there's no genocide in Xinjiang, there is no war in Ba Sing Se. It's all the same. You're a gullible fool or you're a paid assassin.

If any real humans are reading this they need to understand that this user is a state actor with an agenda. Forced sterilization, reeducation camps, relocation and straight up murder is being committed by the Chinese government against the Uyghur people because of their religious beliefs and the way that they look. The person I'm responding to knows this is happening and wants it to happen. They have typed out dozens of comments over multiple days and have said nothing other than a plea for you to trust the villains committing the crimes.

I'm sure they'll respond here again and talk about translations or definitions of words or other distractions because that's what they're being paid to do. But in the end, the argument comes down to trusting the words in a pamphlet written by a corrupt regime that daydreams of being just like America and is doing everything they can to become just as evil and powerful.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 4 weeks ago

because of their religious beliefs

Then why isn't it allegedly being committed against the Hui people as well? In fact, there are places such as Muslim street in Xi'An where the local government have refused to grant licences or allow businesses to sell alcohol there because it goes against the religion of the local Hui population. I have even been in a Hui run public restaurant asking visitors to not bring outside food or alcohol into the restaurant because it was a muslim establishment, along with islamic imagery. Such a thing I have never seen in the UK.

I couldn't find any substantive evidence for a systematic genocide happening outside of western sponsored media reports. In fact, I have known Uyghur Muslims who have came to study abroad in the UK. Atrocities have likely been committed, sure. The problem is, China is a huge country. Whenever one thing happens to one person of a specific group, western media paints it as happening systemically to everyone. The same narrative follows that of the alleged persecution of Christians in China. A few over zealous party officials in China makes a few Churches remove their crosses in their jurisdiction, suddenly this is nationwide persecution. Many times does the higher levels step in and tell them to leave the Churches alone, due to Chinese laws protecting religion, but that's not as widely reported. I've heard similar stories from the USA of schools suppressing Christian beliefs and promoting "liberal" ideas, yet generally we accept these are just isolated incidents.

China is a complicated place. It's a country that is bigger than the continent of Europe, and you're clearly viewing it through an american lens. For example your earlier comments about "dogwhistles" and such.

One thing to understand about China is that they overreact. A stabbing happened on metro train over a decade ago, and to this day you have to go through metal detectors and x ray bags, as well as testing water to go through any metro system in China.

A good example is that schools in China do look like fortified compounds. They have heavy security and barbed wire fences. This was likely resulting from a blanket law regarding children being kidnapped by traffickers and measures to protect them. However, this law also applies to vocational schools which is what is being alleged to be camps, and to the untrained eye, it makes it look more like a camp.

American and Western propaganda is a real thing. I have been to China and have experienced things which definitely run against the grain of media protrayal (particularly regarding the state of Christian worship in the PRC). At worst they're motivated by organisations such as the US government or the Falun Gong, at best they're just looking for clicks. It's okay to scrutinise things, lest the boy cry wolf.