geoffAny informed opinions on whether Chinese people are in general more or less racist than Americans?
davel🤷 There’s no universal, coherent definition for racism, and if there were, we’d still have to run two very large, expensive research/polling projects. Also these are extremely large populations (on extremely large territories), neither of which is monolithic. Also, how racist a people are doesn’t necessarily align with how racist a state is. In an online forum, it’s the kind of question that mostly just exposes some people’s existing prejudices.
I ask mostly rhetorically to shed light on the idea that state mistreatment of ethnic minorities is a persistent human issue, and that it should be condemned wherever it occurs. The USA’s hands may be uniquely bloodied, but I doubt China’s are squeaky clean. I would expect any state of sufficient size and power to eventually be guilty of this.
I wonder if China’s population is more or less ethnically and culturally homogeneous than that of the USA, and whether this should be considered a bit of an apples to oranges comparison.
Kefla [she/her, they/them]I lwonder if China’s population is more or less ethnically and culturally homogeneous than that of the USA,
It comes across as extremely insincere to just pose these questions publicly. If you actually wondered that, you would look it up. What you’re actually doing is covertly implying an answer that you think is true and would never question, without having the spine to actually state that answer yourself because you know that you have no actual facts to back up what you’re suggesting.
Ok. Given that China’s population is overwhelmingly more ethnically and culturally homogeneous, I wonder if we should treat it as apples to oranges.
Better?
Given that China’s population is overwhelmingly more ethnically and culturally homogeneous
What? It’s more diverse, not less. There are hundreds of living indigenous languages in China, and some of which aren’t even in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Just as one example, there are a several of Turkish ethnic groups, which are different from each other, and very different from Han, Tibetan, Koreanic, etc. cultures.
Well then @[email protected] isn’t being a dick with his “wonder” statement, because we both looked it up and got two completely different answers.
My reading states that china is 92% Han, and is overwhelmingly more homogeneous than the US.
I’m ASSUMING that your right for number of ethnic groups being larger, however the predominant ethnic group is wildly larger than the predominant group in the US.
Either way I was only really making my statement because I thought @[email protected] sounded like a twat.
Turns out it’s easy to claim you’re more diverse when you count people who’s great great great grandfather’s came from different cities in the British Islands as different ethnic groups, but consider everyone East of the Urals to be an undifferentiated mass
Um okay? If we just say everyone who isn’t African is the same ethnicity, which is obviously not the case, that would make America 85% homogeneous, as opposed to china at 92%.
White people are barely over half in America anymore bud.
“if we say that white and black people are different races, and continue to treat Asians as an undifferentiated horde, then the massive population of second class slave descendants means America is more diverse!”
Your being purposefully obtuse. This isn’t worth discussing anymore. Hope you have a good day.
Hey look, it’s Satre’s anti-semite.
I’m actually curious and wondering out loud for the sake of discussion. I have my own bias like everyone else, but I asked because I want to explore it rather than project half-baked opinions, so I pose the question for discussion. It’s a not a trivial question to get an answer for by googling.
It’s a not a trivial question to get an answer for by googling.
I literally googled “ethnic groups in china wikipedia” and “ethnic groups in the US wikipedia” and the results (en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China & en.wikipedia.org/…/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit…) seem to immediately and unambiguously reject the idea of China as some kind of homogenous ethnostate that the US can’t emulate because it has too high a concentration of melanin or whatever fascist bullshit you were trying to say.
