China tells its minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new law | CNN
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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.

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.

    • aquovie@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      71·
      7 hours ago

      Very quickly skimming the law, it sounds like what’s common in other countries: there will be a national language, restrictions on your native culture’s practices, etc. Hijabs in France, for example, or mandatory English/French in Canada.

      Of course, the text of the law and its application could be very different.

      Despite Trump’s disgusting EO, the US does not have an official national language. Find the right kind of cultural enclave and business is conducted in that language because language should exist to communicate and promote exchange. Gov-wise we just kinda do everything in English, mostly Spanish, French (up in the Northeast), and some growing flavor of Chinese because that’s what gets the job done best for our community.

    • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukEnglish
      216·
      10 hours ago

      https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/fl/202603/t20260313_723912.shtml

      各民族优秀传统文化都是中华文化的组成部分。国家坚持以社会主义先进文化引领各民族优秀传统文化的创造性转化和创新性发展，支持开展中华优秀传统文化的宣传和推广。

      国家尊重和保障少数民族语言文字的学习和使用，推动少数民族语言文字的规范化、标准化和信息化建设，支持少数民族古籍的保护、整理、研究和利用。

      • zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish
        8·
        7 hours ago

        The excellent traditional cultures of all ethnic groups are integral parts of Chinese culture. The State upholds the guidance of advanced socialist culture in the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional cultures of all ethnic groups, and supports the promotion and dissemination of excellent traditional Chinese culture. The State respects and guarantees the learning and use of the languages ​​and scripts of ethnic minorities, promotes their standardization and the development of their information technology capabilities, and supports the preservation, compilation, research, and utilization of ancient texts belonging to ethnic minorities.