Any informed opinions on whether Chinese people are in general more or less racist than Americans?
🤷 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.

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.

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.

List of ethnic groups in China - Wikipedia