Dear Mr Andy, Tq so much for the great article! I would like to ask you with regard to the Hakka people. Are they part of the ethnic group of the 56 or are they part of the han race? The hakka people are made of more than 5 sub groups namely fui chew, fui yong, moi yen, ho por and etc. Could you kindly do some research and write up? Tqvvm!!
It's excellent the way China has protected all the different ethnic groups and helped them flourish and maintain their culture and language. This is obvious to all who visit and look seriously at China.
Thanks for this. Just to provide the interesting contrast of contextualisation: France and UK do NOT conduct the education of RECOGNISED minority languages on a minority wide bilingual education basis. At the very best, students of Welsh, Irish and Scots origin may go to private bilingual schools. Needless to say, there are not very many of these schools. Similarly France does not give their language minorities (anyone here heard of Breton or Corsican) the funding to allow much by way of bilingual education. And to go across to Ukraine, we all know that the Russian language was prohibited from use in schools and in government and many other places. So much for the so-called liberalism of that country. Go across to the US, and just what ethnic minority rights and regions are there? None, none, none, none.
The English often banned or tried to ban the languages of the people they colonized or conquered, the Irish language was forbidden to be spoken for example.English was mandatory.
US and Canada deliberately & forcefully assimilate Indian in order to make them extinct, to other countries the US and the West say genocide but to their own brutal treatment they say nothing ...
Yup, the mentality was divide and conquer, instead of conquer to unite. It's very understandable why the Irish are would speak out to prevent the same thing that happened to them for other nations.
China treated its minority better than the majority legally. The minority do not need to comply to the old "one child family" law and explains why their population growth rate is more than twice that of tje Han majority. All Chinese are unified by a common culture and written language. This is a formidable strength.
Different provinces provide different lingo but funnily, share the common cultures!! To be united under one umbrella of China is remarkably profound and deep seated!! Jia you China!!!🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
Thanks Andy for this very educational piece of information. But in daily life, we talk less about the 56 ethnic groups, but more on "各處鄉村各處例" where we need to respect every VILLAGE has its own rules, beliefs and customs.
China has learned from the passage history. Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician who played a significant role and remains influential across China and East Asia to this day. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.” "The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort." " The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
Yes you are correct the Chinese mentality , ethics , sense of virtue, beliefs etc are heavily based and influenced by his teachings and writings. So much in fact that it's part of us like it's part of our DNA and makes us who we are. That's why I find it weird that the west seems to define it as a religion.
Yes, Andy does. I have come across some Chinese online that know nothing about Chinese history and the Western humiliation of China, and the anti-China and Chinese rhetoric is still going on...sigh! Andy is doing a great job enlightening people about China. He is a gem. Stay safe, stay well chinfookyen8450.
@@el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri hello you abroard not aboard...laugh. I am from NZ. Hola, como esta? Where are you? Not mainlander but have family etc there.
My wife is of the Zhuang minority and we live in Nanning Guangxi. When I was teaching in Sichuan province it was difficult for her to understand and be understood because of the different dialects. Even the food in the province was a problem for her to get used to so we hardly went out to eat.
Also Yakuts or Yakutia? Came onto my radar recently? erm theyre not Chinese but Russian but are Asian Chinese looking and are on the border of where China Russia meet and it still blows my mind..... a border is just a conceptual imaginary line lol...... Im still not 100% clear even the Chinese in China are confused when they meet and ask her.... heck theres also a Russian looking guy, a farmer who is Chinese!!!!! BUT 100% looks like a Russian! Hes also sort of famous, he loves farming and is always laughing and smiling!!! My sort of person!
I am so glad that you are doing this Andy because there is this one idiot that comes across every now and then on social media that says he believes that all Chinese would leave China for a better life if they were ALLOWED. Makes me so angry as I would so spend way more time in China if I could. .
People with a little bit of knowledge know that there are 56 ethnic groups in China. More than 2000 years ago there were 7 kingdoms before Qin Shi Huang the king of the Qin began to unite all kingdoms into one empire with one official language, the mandarin.The Han kingdom was actually the smallest of the 7 kingdoms, but because the emperor Han Wu Ti who founded the Han dynasty after the Qin was a very popular and loved figure all Chinese call themselves the Han Chinese that belong to the one Han empire with one language, one central government and one culture despite of the many differences in customs and traditions. The usa and the EU are copies of how different groups of people can be unified into one entity. The EU is like a unit which comprises of pieces glued together into one.
The 韩 Han kingdom from the 7 kingdoms era is different from the 汉 Han dynasty. Also fun fact, the south-east part of China wasn't heavily influenced by the central government until 唐 Tang dynasty, so a lot of people from that region actually refer themselves as 唐人 the Tang people instead of 汉人 Han people. Later in history, some of those people went oversea and founded Chinatowns all over the world. And guess what they call those Chinatowns themselves? 唐人街 Street of Tang people.
@@armorma6307 the Tang Dynasty came about in the 10 th century a.d. which is almost a thousand years after the Han dynasty ended, dude. Of course the Han kingdom is not the same as the Han dynasty because the Han kingdom existed during the warring period and the Han dynasty came about after the Qin dynasty has ended. The Han dynasty was founded by Liu Bang who was later named Han Wu Ti, the great emperor of Han. The people who lived within his empire are called the Han Chinese and they are also called themselves outside China “Han Chinese”, not the Tang people. Today, 99% of the Chinese people in China call themselves Han Chinese irrespective of their ethnic identity. In fact, throughout the history of China all other dynasties like the Ming dynasty wanted to reinstate the Han empire. Han has become the identity of the unified Chinese people.
First Chinese emperor also standardized money, weights, measurement, writing etc etc brought in the pony express for post over the entire area, improved roads, oversaw the build the Terra cotta warriors and his tomb, worked on the great wall etc etc he was a busy man.
Thank you Boreham, it's because of people like you that myths about China are dispelled. 🙏 I hope to see the day the US collaborates with China for a common prosperity.
Thank you again, Andy. This is one of the hurdles communicating with people outside of China, particularly westerners. When Chinese use the word “Chinese”, they mean “people of China”, ie, all ethnic groups; whereas westerners use the word to mean Han Chinese specifically.
@@sabinereynaudsf Not about the Chinese. I'm not saying westerners can't differentiate between nationalities and ethnicities, I,m saying to most westerners, Chinese means Han Chinese, only. This is why when a Uyhgur strean with a bunch of westerners, and said he's Chinese, no one on the other side believed him.
I found the discussion of the many different ethnic groups of Yunnan very interesting. I have never been to Yunnan but I have been to Nanning and I have also visited Myanmar which, of course, has a large boundary with Yunnan. There are many different ethnic groups in Myanmar as well. This is partly the reason for recent troubles in Myanmar because the ethnic groups, unlike those in China, have never really been successfully merged together into one country. This is very sad for the ordinary people. Like the people of China I found the people of Myanmar to be mostly wonderful, hard working, friendly people. Their Buddhist way of life is fascinating.
Westerners/Anglos only get confuse bc of the limitation of their own language using the word "Chinese" In fact saying people are Chinese is almost akin to saying people are European. Its that asinine. The main group in China are known as Han as in the video. but even within the Han group, people are not homogenous. There is further confusion caused by the West preferring to label the languages of the Han as dialects. Instead, many of these divisions are akin to languages in their own right. Many of these Han languages in the South are unintelligible to each other. Western so called experts may point to Chinese/Han cultural/religious practises being similar but in broad strokes, the same can be said for Europeans. Bc China's language system is very different, it does not fit neatly into Western concepts. China's language is unified by script from an early stage. This was deliberate so even those who speak completely different languages can tap into a common pictographic system to facilitate trade and communication. It should not be confused however that people using the same so called "Chinese" script are using the same "language" This would be simplistic and Western centric. Many in the West confuse themselves with their own bias lens believing china is all the same, one temple is like another temple etc. but if one puts oneself in a different frame, the same can be said for Europe for an outside culture looking in, one castle is like the next, a cathedral is a cathedral or Christians are Christians. Simplistic concepts of viewing things from ones cultural perspective only is part of the problem that plagues the West. They believe they are open minded but are in fact close minded and lulled into their own hazy comfort zone. China accepts the differences within their polity and allow for an expression of different languages. Those in the US who bleat on about diminished ethnic languages in China should do well to cast a glass at the it own society where people are almost forced to work and function in one language English. There has been ZERO provision even for Spanish as a mandatory secondary language to learn in Junior school even if the Hispanic society (documented and otherwise) is massive. Everyone gets homogenized into English. This is before we even speak of the original decimated Native inhabitants now restricted to their small scattered number of virtual prisons known as 'reservations' in poor lands. What is important to understand in the concept of China is all the ethnicities (to use the preferred limited vernacular of the West, are "Chinese". Its almost like the Romans where regardless of ethnic background, if you belong and subscribe to the rules and customs of the polity as a whole with its common experience and shared history, you are a Roman first. Sadly the West prefers division over coming together and their states are divided over race. China's concept has been to emphasis the common experiences among ethnic groups and a sense of strength when diverse people can work together to accomplish common goals. This is a mental gap for many Westerners who are indoctrinated by their own concept of nation state and race.
The complication is that we can't directly compare Europe to China either, Europe was never really unified. China, on the other hand, had a unified dynasty most of the time.
I think that national integration isn't all good, because of Taiwan and China. Taiwan doesn’t recognize the same origin as China in terms of ethnicity, but does not think and generally does not want to recognize it as the same country in terms of national political party rule of law, because Taiwan has independent laws, land, Legal citizens, independent from the rule of law Taiwanese people generally will not deny that their Han nationality is not originally from Chinese culture, but they don't think that they should be controlled by the Communist Party of China Democracy and ethnicity are different things, but in China, they blur this concept in people's education. Many country divisions do not stem from ethnic issues, but are related to politics. To put it simply and nicely: different concepts Why is Taiwan’s rule of law not under their control? Why don’t Taiwanese want to surrender? Because the Communist Party of China appeared even later than the Chinese Kuomintang（Chinese Nationalist Party） in Taiwan. When they established their party in mainland China, the Kuomintang was already governing Taiwan, but now they want to show that they are the only legal political party in China and want Taiwan to submit The Communist Party of China's approach is very domineering, they just want Taiwan to be governed by them Moreover, Taiwanese people can't stand that kind of control method. Let me ask you who live in a democratic country, who wants to be ruled by a party under the communist system?
To be more precise; China's official governance recognized the ethnic minority people of China AND afforded them Affirmative Action (优惠政策) benefits which predate the American AA by a decade, and to take it up to another level, China's ethnic minority people are also afforded *Liangshaoyikuan* (兩少一寬) which is something you'll not see in the U.S. judicial system; imagine less culpability for misdemeanors and even felonies if you're an African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American / Native American etc... that's what China has!
There is no such thing as "Pure Chinese" but just "Melting Pot of Chinese" The DNA of so called "Han Chinese" from North, East, South, West & Central China are different. Because of these, the natives dialects of verbal spoken language are so different not even understand by different regional Chinese. Not only that, these different Chinese dialects languages came to over 200 and Chinese people are as diverse or even more diverse as Continental Europe. To be "Han Chinese" is Cultural but not based on ethnicity or race.
I really enjoyed watching this new series - China Unveiled. Could you show how, in many ways, China’s communist/ socialist government is ‘more democratic’ when compared to say the U.S. or UK. Many people have the impression that China is ‘authoritarian’ or run as a ‘dictatorship’. By showing that the average Chinese does have some say or involvement in the process of electing officials or party leaders at the county level and above. Just a suggestion. It’ll really help debunk the myths and mystery surrounding the CCP and how China is governed. Thanks
We have different ethnic Chinese living overseas especially in Asean countries where their ancestors from Southern China especially from Fujian province.
I am looking forward to a documentary with an in depth look into the customs and traditions of the different ethnicity living peacefully as one nation in China. 🎉🎉😊❤😂❤❤❤
@@hardiwirawan3935 Ka pai hoki koe - I cheated, I had to look this up...laugh, my Maori is not as good as my Mandarin, Cantonese is fluent and better being Han Chinese. Stay safe, stay well, stay happy.
oh my. never heard of before , today i really learn loads. u are really China expert of the expert. u know more than 99% of normal Chinese. i would like to know more about how China expand its territory and how they get their name such china ,Chinese etc. please
The English word for China came from the Chinese word Qin which is pronouned as Chin in English I believe. Sino comes from the pronunciation of Qin In French.
Children of mixed nationality between Han and a minority group have the legal option to identify as either. Most choose to identify as a minority, mostly to be the recipient of affirmative action.
Whatever the ethnicity, every soul understands the culture and civilization of China. I would even include the Vietnamese and Koreans fed on Confucian ideals.
I love this! I love learning about other peoples and ethnic groups in the world! ✊🏼✊🏼 China!
ethnic Chinese have better policies than the majority Han Chinese
This is factual, very well presented. Andy please keep producing more like this.
Oh yes from a propagandist, the best source of info 👌👌
Dear Mr Andy, Tq so much for the great article!
I would like to ask you with regard to the Hakka people. Are they part of the ethnic group of the 56 or are they part of the han race? The hakka people are made of more than 5 sub groups namely fui chew, fui yong, moi yen, ho por and etc. Could you kindly do some research and write up? Tqvvm!!
@@MP-wb5yd I bet you wouldn't mention this under biased videos that are anti-China.
It's excellent the way China has protected all the different ethnic groups and helped them flourish and maintain their culture and language. This is obvious to all who visit and look seriously at China.
Your knowledge of these topics is excellent!
Thanks for this. Just to provide the interesting contrast of contextualisation: France and UK do NOT conduct the education of RECOGNISED minority languages on a minority wide bilingual education basis. At the very best, students of Welsh, Irish and Scots origin may go to private bilingual schools. Needless to say, there are not very many of these schools. Similarly France does not give their language minorities (anyone here heard of Breton or Corsican) the funding to allow much by way of bilingual education. And to go across to Ukraine, we all know that the Russian language was prohibited from use in schools and in government and many other places. So much for the so-called liberalism of that country. Go across to the US, and just what ethnic minority rights and regions are there? None, none, none, none.
The English often banned or tried to ban the languages of the people they colonized or conquered, the Irish language was forbidden to be spoken for example.English was mandatory.
US and Canada deliberately & forcefully assimilate Indian in order to make them extinct, to other countries the US and the West say genocide but to their own brutal treatment they say nothing ...
Yup, the mentality was divide and conquer, instead of conquer to unite. It's very understandable why the Irish are would speak out to prevent the same thing that happened to them for other nations.
Oppression olympics
Funny that. A friend from Liverpool brought up her two children in North Wales , they went to State School and learned Welsh and are bilingual.
thank you Andy for the quick lesson，for bringing our common heritage closer to us
The production quality is top notch! 👏👏👏
Thanks so much! This took me ages to edit. 😂
@@ReportsOnChina always keep kicking on my pal! You are better than like 99% of msm!
If only western leaders learned more about China, the history, the peoples and their cultures then communication might be on higher level.
They're too busy shoving their beliefs down everyones throat you would think they even have time to think about that?? LOL
Wishful thinking.
Unfortunately, Western leaders are more concerned about how to split China than about the Chinese people
China treated its minority better than the majority legally.
The minority do not need to comply to the old "one child family" law and explains why their population growth rate is more than twice that of tje Han majority.
All Chinese are unified by a common culture and written language.
This is a formidable strength.
Different provinces provide different lingo but funnily, share the common cultures!! To be united under one umbrella of China is remarkably profound and deep seated!! Jia you China!!!🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
Thanks Andy for this very educational piece of information. But in daily life, we talk less about the 56 ethnic groups, but more on "各處鄉村各處例" where we need to respect every VILLAGE has its own rules, beliefs and customs.
Andy, this video is particularly interesting and informational. Do make more of such videos about China.
Thank you for your efforts, Andy!
He tells the China story well.
Thank you. It's very educating.
China has learned from the passage history. Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician who played a significant role and remains influential across China and East Asia to this day.
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
" The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
🙂👍🙏
Yes you are correct the Chinese mentality , ethics , sense of virtue, beliefs etc are heavily based and influenced by his teachings and writings. So much in fact that it's part of us like it's part of our DNA and makes us who we are.
That's why I find it weird that the west seems to define it as a religion.
不仅仅是孔子，中国在先秦时代思想丰富多彩有许多不同的学派，比如道家、墨家、法家、杂家、名家……
Loved this! I found it really educational
Also great video editing skills
Glad you liked it!! The editing took me two days. 😢
@@ReportsOnChina No pains No gains, big thumb for you, bro.
@@ReportsOnChina your hard work definitely didn't go unnoticed!
Thank you so much for speaking out for us.
Thank you so much, Andy.
For introducing China to the world.
Our highest salute and gratitude to you 👍👍👍
It doesn't hurt that he's so easy on the eyes.
Very good report Andy. I learned a lot.
To those that ask such a question, I would always reply: "Of course, we're made with the same cookie-cutter."😂😂
Thanks for the lecture, I have learnt a few things here :)
Hello Jessica, hope you are well.
Thank you Andy. Love your video! Always support you.
My goodness. You know the Chinese more than many Chinese do. 👍
Yes, Andy does. I have come across some Chinese online that know nothing about Chinese history and the Western humiliation of China, and the anti-China and Chinese rhetoric is still going on...sigh! Andy is doing a great job enlightening people about China. He is a gem. Stay safe, stay well chinfookyen8450.
@@henriettasecker-shao aboard or mainlanders ?
@@el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri hello you abroard not aboard...laugh. I am from NZ. Hola, como esta? Where are you? Not mainlander but have family etc there.
@@el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri Sorry mis-spelt again meant to say abroad not aboard. :)
@@henriettasecker-shao "I have come across some Chinese online"
are they from abroad or mainland china ?
My wife is of the Zhuang minority and we live in Nanning Guangxi. When I was teaching in Sichuan province it was difficult for her to understand and be understood because of the different dialects. Even the food in the province was a problem for her to get used to so we hardly went out to eat.
Learned something today, thank you so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you. Keep it up. Great clear simple to understand.
This was a spectacular and detailed report on Chinese society and the political system.
Amazing and very interesting info 👍👍👍
Also Yakuts or Yakutia? Came onto my radar recently? erm theyre not Chinese but Russian but are Asian Chinese looking and are on the border of where China Russia meet and it still blows my mind..... a border is just a conceptual imaginary line lol...... Im still not 100% clear even the Chinese in China are confused when they meet and ask her.... heck theres also a Russian looking guy, a farmer who is Chinese!!!!! BUT 100% looks like a Russian! Hes also sort of famous, he loves farming and is always laughing and smiling!!! My sort of person!
Yakuts don't live near the chinese russia border. Those are evenks stupid
Thanks Andy for the sharing these facts about China which Western MSM deliberately ignore
I am so glad that you are doing this Andy because there is this one idiot that comes across every now and then on social media that says he believes that all Chinese would leave China for a better life if they were ALLOWED. Makes me so angry as I would so spend way more time in China if I could. .
Another great video, Andy! ...lessons for the Western world about China!
Really good video, Andy-great new format! I knew some of this, but lots of the detail was new-and very interesting😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome & informative video. Love it
This video is very informatives with Chinese culture. Thank you.
great stuff Andy!
Great video!
Great stuff Andy. thank you for educating the world about China. Excellent reporting as always, keep up the good work. Big hug. Henrietta
Thanks Andy, very informative 👌👍
Great info very interesting thanks Andy although I already knew much of that it was good to have it confirmed.
Hamburgers are all the same, Chinese is not.
People with a little bit of knowledge know that there are 56 ethnic groups in China. More than 2000 years ago there were 7 kingdoms before Qin Shi Huang the king of the Qin began to unite all kingdoms into one empire with one official language, the mandarin.The Han kingdom was actually the smallest of the 7 kingdoms, but because the emperor Han Wu Ti who founded the Han dynasty after the Qin was a very popular and loved figure all Chinese call themselves the Han Chinese that belong to the one Han empire with one language, one central government and one culture despite of the many differences in customs and traditions. The usa and the EU are copies of how different groups of people can be unified into one entity. The EU is like a unit which comprises of pieces glued together into one.
The 韩 Han kingdom from the 7 kingdoms era is different from the 汉 Han dynasty. Also fun fact, the south-east part of China wasn't heavily influenced by the central government until 唐 Tang dynasty, so a lot of people from that region actually refer themselves as 唐人 the Tang people instead of 汉人 Han people. Later in history, some of those people went oversea and founded Chinatowns all over the world. And guess what they call those Chinatowns themselves? 唐人街 Street of Tang people.
@@armorma6307 the Tang Dynasty came about in the 10 th century a.d. which is almost a thousand years after the Han dynasty ended, dude. Of course the Han kingdom is not the same as the Han dynasty because the Han kingdom existed during the warring period and the Han dynasty came about after the Qin dynasty has ended. The Han dynasty was founded by Liu Bang who was later named Han Wu Ti, the great emperor of Han. The people who lived within his empire are called the Han Chinese and they are also called themselves outside China “Han Chinese”, not the Tang people. Today, 99% of the Chinese people in China call themselves Han Chinese irrespective of their ethnic identity. In fact, throughout the history of China all other dynasties like the Ming dynasty wanted to reinstate the Han empire. Han has become the identity of the unified Chinese people.
your "People with a little bit of knowledge" standard is too high for the majority of westerners obviously
First Chinese emperor also standardized money, weights, measurement, writing etc etc brought in the pony express for post over the entire area, improved roads, oversaw the build the Terra cotta warriors and his tomb, worked on the great wall etc etc he was a busy man.
@@edmurks236 yes u r right 👍👍
Informative💯‼️
Have you done one on the school system? 🤔
Great report, Andy. Thanks.
Thank you Boreham, it's because of people like you that myths about China are dispelled. 🙏
I hope to see the day the US collaborates with China for a common prosperity.
🙏+1🙏
Much Gratitude For Your Diplomatic Endeavors Mr Andy Boreham ✌️🇺🇸💫
Thank you again, Andy. This is one of the hurdles communicating with people outside of China, particularly westerners. When Chinese use the word “Chinese”, they mean “people of China”, ie, all ethnic groups; whereas westerners use the word to mean Han Chinese specifically.
Not really. Westerners do understand the difference between nationality and ethnicity well.
@@sabinereynaudsf Not about the Chinese. I'm not saying westerners can't differentiate between nationalities and ethnicities, I,m saying to most westerners, Chinese means Han Chinese, only. This is why when a Uyhgur strean with a bunch of westerners, and said he's Chinese, no one on the other side believed him.
Thank you Andy for the informative video.👍
Great series!
Hey I love this content, please more of this!
I’ll try and do one or two of this series a month. 😊
@@ReportsOnChina yeeeey much appreciated! Thanks!
I'm of ethic Han Chinese descent (华侨).
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of China, it's people and cultures... in a way, bringing me to my "roots".
Where are all the other groups in western countries?
They have all been genocided right from Indigenous Americans to Aboriginies.
Marginalized
decimated!
@@oliver2669 You mean the last few remaining ones who couldn't be exterminated?
@@oliver2669 People are not very well educated regarding native Americans. Most do not live on reservations.
I found the discussion of the many different ethnic groups of Yunnan very interesting. I have never been to Yunnan but I have been to Nanning and I have also visited Myanmar which, of course, has a large boundary with Yunnan. There are many different ethnic groups in Myanmar as well. This is partly the reason for recent troubles in Myanmar because the ethnic groups, unlike those in China, have never really been successfully merged together into one country. This is very sad for the ordinary people. Like the people of China I found the people of Myanmar to be mostly wonderful, hard working, friendly people. Their Buddhist way of life is fascinating.
Love your presentation! Learned a lot! 😊
Fun fact:
There are more ethnic Mongolians living inside China than Mongolia!
how many ethnic mongolian?
Another fun fact:
Traditional Mongolian script is used in China, whereas Cyrillic script is used in Mongolia.
mongolian golden family reside inside china
@@fannyalbi9040 There are around 6.3 million ethic mongalian in China.
@@fannyalbi9040 10 million in the whole world.
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Westerners/Anglos only get confuse bc of the limitation of their own language using the word "Chinese"
In fact saying people are Chinese is almost akin to saying people are European. Its that asinine.
The main group in China are known as Han as in the video. but even within the Han group, people are not homogenous. There is further confusion caused by the West preferring to label the languages of the Han as dialects. Instead, many of these divisions are akin to languages in their own right.
Many of these Han languages in the South are unintelligible to each other.
Western so called experts may point to Chinese/Han cultural/religious practises being similar but in broad strokes, the same can be said for Europeans.
Bc China's language system is very different, it does not fit neatly into Western concepts. China's language is unified by script from an early stage. This was deliberate so even those who speak completely different languages can tap into a common pictographic system to facilitate trade and communication. It should not be confused however that people using the same so called "Chinese" script are using the same "language" This would be simplistic and Western centric.
Many in the West confuse themselves with their own bias lens believing china is all the same, one temple is like another temple etc. but if one puts oneself in a different frame, the same can be said for Europe for an outside culture looking in, one castle is like the next, a cathedral is a cathedral or Christians are Christians.
Simplistic concepts of viewing things from ones cultural perspective only is part of the problem that plagues the West.
They believe they are open minded but are in fact close minded and lulled into their own hazy comfort zone.
China accepts the differences within their polity and allow for an expression of different languages. Those in the US who bleat on about diminished ethnic languages in China should do well to cast a glass at the it own society where people are almost forced to work and function in one language English. There has been ZERO provision even for Spanish as a mandatory secondary language to learn in Junior school even if the Hispanic society (documented and otherwise) is massive. Everyone gets homogenized into English. This is before we even speak of the original decimated Native inhabitants now restricted to their small scattered number of virtual prisons known as 'reservations' in poor lands.
What is important to understand in the concept of China is all the ethnicities (to use the preferred limited vernacular of the West, are "Chinese". Its almost like the Romans where regardless of ethnic background, if you belong and subscribe to the rules and customs of the polity as a whole with its common experience and shared history, you are a Roman first.
Sadly the West prefers division over coming together and their states are divided over race.
China's concept has been to emphasis the common experiences among ethnic groups and a sense of strength when diverse people can work together to accomplish common goals.
This is a mental gap for many Westerners who are indoctrinated by their own concept of nation state and race.
The complication is that we can't directly compare Europe to China either, Europe was never really unified. China, on the other hand, had a unified dynasty most of the time.
I think that national integration isn't all good, because of Taiwan and China.
Taiwan doesn’t recognize the same origin as China in terms of ethnicity, but does not think and generally does not want to recognize it as the same country in terms of national political party rule of law, because Taiwan has independent laws, land, Legal citizens, independent from the rule of law
Taiwanese people generally will not deny that their Han nationality is not originally from Chinese culture, but they don't think that they should be controlled by the Communist Party of China
Democracy and ethnicity are different things, but in China, they blur this concept in people's education. Many country divisions do not stem from ethnic issues, but are related to politics.
To put it simply and nicely: different concepts
Why is Taiwan’s rule of law not under their control? Why don’t Taiwanese want to surrender? Because the Communist Party of China appeared even later than the Chinese Kuomintang（Chinese Nationalist Party） in Taiwan. When they established their party in mainland China, the Kuomintang was already governing Taiwan, but now they want to show that they are the only legal political party in China and want Taiwan to submit
The Communist Party of China's approach is very domineering, they just want Taiwan to be governed by them
Moreover, Taiwanese people can't stand that kind of control method. Let me ask you who live in a democratic country, who wants to be ruled by a party under the communist system?
Thanks for that, mate. Very informative. Keep up the good work, friend
❤❤❤❤Thank you Andy,🌷🌷🌷🙏🙏🙏㊗️🀄️🇳🇿🈶🈵🉐🧧🌺
Excellent presentation of facts
Awesome work reporting Andy.. !!!
Keep up the good work! ✌✌✌✌
To be more precise; China's official governance recognized the ethnic minority people of China AND afforded them Affirmative Action (优惠政策) benefits which predate the American AA by a decade, and to take it up to another level, China's ethnic minority people are also afforded *Liangshaoyikuan* (兩少一寬) which is something you'll not see in the U.S. judicial system; imagine less culpability for misdemeanors and even felonies if you're an African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American / Native American etc... that's what China has!
Thank you 😂😂
There is no such thing as "Pure Chinese" but just "Melting Pot of Chinese"
The DNA of so called "Han Chinese" from North, East, South, West & Central China are different. Because of these, the natives dialects of verbal spoken language are so different not even understand by different regional Chinese. Not only that, these different Chinese dialects languages came to over 200 and Chinese people are as diverse or even more diverse as Continental Europe.
To be "Han Chinese" is Cultural but not based on ethnicity or race.
I really enjoyed watching this new series - China Unveiled. Could you show how, in many ways, China’s communist/ socialist government is ‘more democratic’ when compared to say the U.S. or UK. Many people have the impression that China is ‘authoritarian’ or run as a ‘dictatorship’. By showing that the average Chinese does have some say or involvement in the process of electing officials or party leaders at the county level and above. Just a suggestion. It’ll really help debunk the myths and mystery surrounding the CCP and how China is governed. Thanks
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chinese government see all 56 ethnic groups are the same. there is no different from hans or others.
Even when there are groups of chinese people that look the similar they probably are from different groups with different customs
Very interesting and informative. Thanks Andy.
Many thanks ANDY BOREHAM 👏👏👏🎹🎼☕️
Amazing job, Andy! I like this new series!
We have different ethnic Chinese living overseas especially in Asean countries where their ancestors from Southern China especially from Fujian province.
Thanks Andy
It's the same as in Britain... Welsh, Irish, English, Scottish and now half of Eastern Europe!
Thanks for sharing and surfacing the truth. 👏👍
Han Hakka Chinese here,you know about that andy..HAKKA CHINESE PEOPLE..
Han Hakka chinese from Singapore here.. 🙋
YOUR knowledge exceed me as an 'ethnic' Chinese diversity. Thumbs Up.
I am looking forward to a documentary with an in depth look into the customs and traditions of the different ethnicity living peacefully as one nation in China. 🎉🎉😊❤😂❤❤❤
It will be a good series to watch.
Very informative and interesting, thanks a lot!
You know what they see when they see this? Great! We can divide & rule 'em.
Thanks from Palmy NZ.
hello from Wanganui. NZ
Tena koe Whanganui
@@hardiwirawan3935 Ka pai hoki koe - I cheated, I had to look this up...laugh, my Maori is not as good as my Mandarin, Cantonese is fluent and better being Han Chinese. Stay safe, stay well, stay happy.
Really appreciate Andy's introduction of the minority groups of China.
Fantastic lesson!
Lovely!
Africans must learn from this.
oh my. never heard of before , today i really learn loads. u are really China expert of the expert. u know more than 99% of normal Chinese.
i would like to know more about how China expand its territory and how they get their name such china ,Chinese etc. please
The English word for China came from the Chinese word Qin which is pronouned as Chin in English I believe. Sino comes from the pronunciation of Qin In French.
Great work 👍👍👍 keep it up.
Great. Good to have rather than just focusing on revealing the truth countering "negative" understanding of China.
very good introduction
Children of mixed nationality between Han and a minority group have the legal option to identify as either.
Most choose to identify as a minority, mostly to be the recipient of affirmative action.
Whatever the ethnicity, every soul understands the culture and civilization of China. I would even include the Vietnamese and Koreans fed on Confucian ideals.
Of course they are..
History alive by truth holders like U.🙏🙏👍👍🙏🙏
Real diversity. Not just some corporate rubbish agenda pushing
Good video, thanks 👍👍👍🙏
Australia can learn from this ethnic autonomous system as we approach the Aboriginal voice to parliament referendum vote. Baby steps at least.
Super,
I got that one correct Andy cos you have talked about it before
Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
Great stats.
More freedom for their minorities then Aust for the indigious people
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