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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.

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.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Hmm, hmm...

So, ethnic cleansing?

[–] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 days 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.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems -3 points 3 days ago

More like banning hate crimes.