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China has approved a sweeping new law which claims to help promote "ethnic unity" - but critics say it will further erode the rights of minority groups.

On paper, it aims to promote integration among the 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, dominated by the Han Chinese, through education and housing. But critics say it cuts people off from their language and culture.

It mandates that all children should be taught Mandarin before kindergarten and up until the end of high school. Previously students could study most of the curriculum in their native language such as Tibetan, Uyghur or Mongolian.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I assumed this was always the case in China, didn't they create mandarin with the sole purpose of making everyone learn it

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

China is a very large country and a lot of different ethnic groups. You don't see them because they have no mobility, aren't featured in Chinese media and the CCP really doesn't like them. Their idea of cultural "unity" is to convert everyone to Han.

[–] DirtSona@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Have you ever watched TV in china? It is full of representation of different ethnicities.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Question: how often do you watch Chinese media? I personally visited China last year and in their National History Museum they have constant mentions to many different ethnicities even if they didn't belong to China proper at the time

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I know that, I'm saying I assumed the ccp was forcing them to learn mandarin all this time already

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Han groups have like 100+ non-mutually-intelligible languages.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Historically, it's been a largely regional split with Cantonese in the West and Mandarin in the East.

China's been something of an outlayer in supporting as many languages as it does.