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      Eradicating local culture in Tibet and Xinjiang

      Except they still have their culture. We know what eradication of a culture looks like, it looks like schools that ban the use of native languages, instead of teach in them.

      ~98% of Tibetans speak a Tibetan language.

      Enforcing Mandarin

      Everyone in China learns Mandarin in additional to their local language, how else are they supposed to communicate with people from other parts of China?

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          https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3100112/inner-mongolia-doubles-down-chinas-plan-teach-key-subjects

          The regional government announced last week that primary and secondary schools that originally taught in the Mongolian language would shift to Mandarin to teach three core subjects: literature, ethics and history

          Turns out it’s hard to teach Chinese literature, ethics, and history when you can’t interact with the primary sources.

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            That’s the core question then: should Mongolian children be made to learn Chinese literature, ethics, and history instead of Mongolian literature, ethics, and history?

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              They should learn both. But as an American, it’s laughable for me to have an opinion on the matter given the way indigenous people are treated here.

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                I have real strong opinions about how indigenous people are treated here, why wouldn’t I have those opinions about other nonruling groups?

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                  2 reasons:

                  1. The reletive silence suggests most people who talk about minority rights in China don’t actually care about minorities rights, because I see >100 “but what about the uhigars or women in Iran” or w/e for every post about the poisoning of Hawaiian or Dakota water.

                  2. We can actually have positive impacts on native Americans, when it comes to minorities in enemies of America, it’s just carrying water for hostile action that hurt those people as much as anyone else. A productive context for that discussion wouldn’t involve Americans.

                  Same when articles trot out LGBT rights in Gaza or Iran or Russia as if those groups don’t suffer from hunger and lack of medicine due to western sanctions.

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                    Disagreed with #2. I think it’d be pretty nice if Canada or Europe pushed on America to grant more rights and justice to its indigenous groups (see things like the UN special rapporteur on poverty in the US). We’re pretty powerless against our government and external sources, for as little as they can penetrate the US media bubble, give us some ammunition to use to coerce the local governments.