Post #2643919
2026-05-01 16:21 UTC
@chu@climatejustice.social @cxiao@infosec.exchange @mayintoronto@beige.party An issue that always bothers me, both inside China and outside, is the conception of Chinese as one people, one ethnicity when it's a nationality. My wife's village is not Han, but her identity card says they are because when Mao took power her grandfather was tasked with writing a history of their village. He wrote a Han history as their people were literally called "Dog people" by the Han, and the mainland is Han-supremacist.
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@reflex@retrogaming.social 2026-05-01 16:23
@chu@climatejustice.social @cxiao@infosec.exchange @mayintoronto@beige.party And yeah, Canada is a half step behind the USA right now but Canadians get angry with me when I mention it. Despite Canadians constantly blaming "Chinese investors" for the cost of housing rather than their NIMBY refusal to build housing (same issue in the USA).
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@chu@climatejustice.social 2026-05-01 16:28
@reflex@retrogaming.social @cxiao@infosec.exchange @mayintoronto@beige.party In the self identified ethnicity check boxes, rather than identifying as "Chinese" whatever that means, sometimes I am a little shit and check "other" and write in "Han".