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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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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 110 points 1 week ago (143 children)

This is continuing an act of genocide against the Uyghurs.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 64 points 1 week ago

and other minorities

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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (20 children)

As someone who lived in China for about 5 years, it's amazing reading people's comments on China that have never been there, but they watch bullshit propaganda tictoks, and think they know what they're talking about.

I'm 43 from the US. For how ridiculously racist the world thinks the US is because they have the most whiney people with victim syndrome (because you know we have free speech and China doesn't), I have heard/seen legitimately 10x more racist shit living in China in 5 years than I've heard over the last 38 years of my life.

There's government messages all over to hate/kill Japanese. They have an amusement park in the south (I forget where) where it's a replica US aircraft carrier you can visit and outside there's an activity where you can stop US tressed dummies with a bayonet.

China thrives on the imbalance of information between itself and the US. They abuse freedom of speech in the US while controlling all media outlets, social sites, and WeChat in their own country.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Han Chinese are even racist towards other Han Chinese due to insane obsession with skin whiteness and China not having free movement like other countries (regional identity then becomes superiority status). This is kinda everywhere in Asia but China is especially bad.

The problem with western freedom is that it allows for lazy conclusions like "my government is restricting my freedoms and is unjust which means the opposition is free and just, through sheer virtue of being opposition".

Han Chinese are even racist towards other Han Chinese due to insane obsession with skin whiteness and China not having free movement like other countries (regional identity then becomes superiority status)

My dude...... That's not racism. They are literally the same ethnicity, let alone race. Both of the things you are talking about are based on social economics. Historically in East Asia pale skin meant that you did not have to do manual labor, meaning you were from one of the higher classes.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Wow. You sure make China sound like the united states!

[–] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today -1 points 6 days ago

So you just don't know history or what racism is.

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[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Define integrate. I live in a country that I wasn't born in. Obviously, I follow the laws, but I don't owe anyone to change my personality. I eat whatever the fuck I want, dress the way I want, etc. I'm allergic to narrow-mindness because it implies low intelligence, among other things

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[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Can't wait for the tankies to try and spin this into something positive.

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