The law states that children should be taught Mandarin before kindergarten, until the end of high school.

China has approved a sweeping new law which claims to help promote “ethnic unity” - but critics say it will further erode the rights of minority groups.

On paper, it aims to promote integration among the 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, dominated by the Han Chinese, through education and housing. But critics say it cuts people off from their language and culture.

It mandates that all children should be taught Mandarin before kindergarten and up until the end of high school. Previously students could study most of the curriculum in their native language such as Tibetan, Uyghur or Mongolian.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    This is very similar to the Native American genocide.

    The one where Colonial European settlers were literally marching into Indian communities and massacring them?

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      Umm for the most part that was just the colonialists and later on the US when it was created. The actual Europeans were not always that horrible (except the Spanish ofc)

      That China is following these same genocidal blueprints is no surprise considering their embrace of fascism.

      • Riverside@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        The actual Europeans were not always that horrible (except the Spanish ofc)

        What makes the Spanish worse than the Dutch, English or French? All enacted genocide where they arrived, brought in slaves from Africa, and funnily enough there are more native people left in the Spanish regions (Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala) than in the English-controlled ones, the Anglos were more thorough in their genocide.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          We were talking about the Native American Genocide specifically. The US was absolutely genocidal whereas other European countries were actually respecting treaties and not always trying to steal lands like the US and British.