Tuesday, September 2, 2014

How Not To Solve A Problem Chinese Style

The Chinese government has announced a program to aims to promote interracial marriage  Xinjiang Provence which is majority Uighur who are Muslims and speak Turkic.  They are a distinct minority within Han Chinese society.   The 8 million Uighur's aren't buying.  It's social engineering on a rather large scale by the Chinese Communist government to in essence create a homogeneous country. Like that will ever work.

 
The package includes annual cash payments of 10,000 yuan (£980) for inter-ethnic couples during the first five years of their marriage, as well as housing, healthcare and education subsidies, according to a statement on the Qiemo county government's website.
"Ethnic groups are different only in that we have different languages and different customs, but we have the same blue sky above our heads, the same fertile ground beneath our feet, and the same love in our hearts!" Yasen Nasi'er, deputy secretary of the Qiongkule township Communist party committee, told journalists during the announcement on 25 August. "I believe that intermarriage between ethnic groups is a foundation of Chinese culture, and will strengthen the concrete expression of exchange, association, and mingling of all ethnic groups."
Yea, every bodies the same when they are completely different but, hey never mind that.


"This seems to be part of a much larger effort by the government to essentially socially engineer support for a decidedly Beijing-centric perception of what a society should look like — or at least to minimise objections to the central government's policies," said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch.
"It seems to presume that Han will be supportive of government policies – a reality which is manifestly not true – and somehow, that the construct of marriage will promote that political loyalty."






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