From: jpxu1@fnalo.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: MINORITY RIGHTS IN CHINA
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:31:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: fnalo.1992Jul22.163146.1
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab

In article <1992Jul22.150639.159833@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, exl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Edwin X. Li) writes:
> In article <1992Jul21.162930.16474@nntp.hut.fi>, ldong@hila.hut.fi (Liyun Dong)
> writes:
>>
>>As far as I know, compared with Han's, minorities can enter universities
>>with less scores in the National University Entance Examination. They can
>>also have more than one babies while Han's usually cannot. Minorities
>>regions receive heavy financial aids from Beijing, while many Han dominated
>>provinces are heavily taxed by Beijing.
>>
> 
> these are all window dressing policies designing to showcase
> communist's doctrine of brotherly love and unity. when you
> are talking about minority rights, you have to look at 1) how
> many high level officials who are making crucial decisions are
> of minority origin or 2) how autonomous those minority regions
> are. another word, do they have a voice in determining their
> cultural, economical and political development. if you consider
> these criteria, the ccp regime is no where near in granting
> a consistant minority right policy, or anybody's rights, for that
> matter. now han chauvinism comes in right here: if you are
> talking about human rights( translation: han rights), that's
> fine. about the minority rights, well, they already got those
> preferential treatments.
> 
> even those treatments are debatable:
> for instance, about so called "heavy financial aids", we don't
> really have a figure of what fraction of gnp the ccp spend for
> this purpose. we do know however, those regions are havily
> mineral rich, not to mention the strategic importance like
> nuclear testing, etc. "more than one babies", well, 99% of
> the population is of han ethenic. the han screwed up and anybody
> else has to suffer too? actually, many minority groups suffered
> a population decline. "lower score on university entrance exam":
> when i went to school a decade ago, the guy who scored lowest
> total points among 150 persons in our department was from
> llasa, tibet. alas, he is a han too. a girl from xingjiang is
> also a han.
> 
> the chinese society is a highly monolithic environment. people
> just don't know how to handle anything that is different. when
> i grew up in chengdu, there are quite a few tibetans went to
> school in a nearby minority college. all we hear was about
> their barbaric habits, their fighting with knifes, etc. i never
> once met a tibetan. yet the rumors was with me as i moved around.
> only when i came to the states and becomes a foregner, a minority
> myself, did i realize how absurd and ugly xenophobia and racism
> are. it's two way street. on one side, we are at the recieving
> end of racism, and sometime its victim. on the other hand,
> many of us harbors racism in our own heart toward other people.
> that's one of the reasons why we can hardly fit in anywhere
> outside.

Another example of brainless talk.  minorities are pandas now in China.

That's why so many interracial student in my school switched their racial

identification to whatever they can think of.  If one of his/her greatgrand

parants is a minority, he/she will be a minority.