Chinese are all the same? The many Ethnic Groups in the People's Republic of China (PRC)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2017
- A lot of people might be tempted to think that the People's Republic of China is an extremely ethnically homogeneous country, and strictly judging by ethnic identification on the official government census, they would be considered justified for thinking that, but today we're going to look at the man ethnic groups of the PRC, and why ethnicity and language in China is such a confusing topic.
Be sure to let me know your thoughts on the diverse ethnic groups of the People's Republic of China, and the Han Chinese people around the globe. Thanks for watching!
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foreignpolicy.com/2010/04/13/t...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacif...
joshuaproject.net/countries/CH
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I've always thought of "Han" as being similar to "Roman". By the end of the Roman Empire, a great many different people all over the Mediterranean identified as Roman and spoke Latin. China had an extra thousand years of centralized government and so has more linguistic and cultural uniformity in an area that may have been more diverse in the past.
HansLemurson you r right. Han dynasty in East Asia is just like Rome in Europe.
They had the advantage of isolation too
Vietnamese also know as kinh people they are Han Chinese everywhere , they stolen land from Montagnard Jarai, Ede .... tribe Malayo, Polynesian austronesian in Central highland today , we facing discrimination by Vietnamese , vN government
@Griffith Taka china encompasses all dynasties since huangdi,and that took thousands of years.
Actually, There is a theory, the ancient Chinese also think the roman is like Chinese, thus, they use their ancient dynasty 's name to address Roman. Although there thousands years and miles between you and ancient Chinese, What you think is consistent with the ancient people,
Europeans are not the same
Chinese are not the same
Indians are not the same
Africans are not the same.
+thepurple dolphin
put a Swedish and Spanish women together,,u can figure them out quickly
+thepurple dolphin
come on...man.... Spanish used to be mixed with Arabs..
+thepurple dolphin
anyway...lady or gentleman.. let's say this...
nowadays are really tough
all race are about the bucks
you rarely see a Spaniard with blond hair. Swedes with blond hair is extremely common
Jane E but looks do define physical traits and it’s obvious the Mediterraneans look different than nordics.
I accidentally found myself in the good part of the internet. Not bad.
shut up dumbass, whoops, I just made it slightly average
Jeffrey Harrison lol
Егор Кощее lmfaooo
no，you don't
Yes
Northern Europeans/Scandinavians have mostly blonde hair blue eyes, while most southern Europeans/Spaniards, Italians have dark hair, dark color eyes. Most Northern Chinese and southern Chinese do not have same features, northern Chinese generally taller, lighter skin complexion. Because of the diversity of Chinese culture, that makes China a fascinating country, variety of Chinese food, traditions, fashions, fruits, just to name a few.
i can die already, i've seen a chinese blonde guy with blue eyes. I've seen it all with this haha
@@machinegun2282 don't be surprised there are blonde hair blue eyes Chinese, there are many Caucasian Oriental mix at the Chinese border of Russia and also Turkey.
@@dragondescendant1 yeah genes do travel,
China is simply a group of 7 countries 😂😂😂
@Chidori457 you just said it yourself Southern Spaniards are darker.
Valuable information. Big up!
Knowledgia n
Knowledgia @9:04 bread/butter/sauce/bacon/ butter/ bread....lol.
a lot of wrong information.
A lot of misunderstanding and wrong information there.
5:14 lmao even the kid can't believe he's seeing a chinese jew
Santiago Barrios He must be the only chinese jew he has ever seen.
I'm still waiting for the Native American Jews to appear.
that picture is worth a thousand words
Up until the 1900s, there were thounsands of Chinese Jews concentrated in one region. Then communism wrecked all the religions and cultures. Many Chinese jews said fk it, and blended into the Han Chinese. Then decades later, today, many are discovering their hertiage and going back to Israel.
ARVIN
They have no heritage linked to the real Israelites. They are just Chinese people who converted to Judaism !
You used a stock photo of Alberto Fujimori as an example of Chinese living aboad in Peru - he's Japanese.
She might have come from within current borders of china but she is definetely not an ethnic chinese.much probably she is an uyghur.if not, then she is from Kazakh or Kyrgyz minority.if still not, then from sari uyghurs somewhere in Ordos region, in the east.. How do I know? her eye color and hair color speaks to me.
The label "Han" is slightly odd.
Using myself as an example, my father is of Hakka descent, a subgroup of the Han, and my mother's family are from Guangxi, again Han. Our family speaks mostly Cantonese between relatives. We have not been formally taught Mandarin, but the grammar and and vocabulary is almost identical so we can still understand quite a bit without any formal learning. We share similar customs, history, traditions, myths, festivals, and beliefs with a majority other Han people. In effect, we as a people have not really changed much over thousands of years as invaders have simply been absorbed with little to no influence on our cultural identity.
In contrast to the UK where I'm born, the Irish, Scottish and English may have intersected during their tumultuous history, disagree over different sects of the same religion, and use English to communicate, but they have their own distinct native languages and identity. So even if everyone is called "British", the ethnic differences are very clear.
The Han concept can be said to be a nation. Han is taken from the Han dynasty, the people who were ruled during the Han dynasty had the same culture, in the Qing dynasty era (Qing conquered other nations/states) which in general had a different culture from the Han.
uygur, mongol, tibetan, manchu actually they are very different (but now manchu have assimilated into han)
I am also a Hakka from Indonesia, here we are also not taught to speak Mandarin. the community, hakka, hokkien, tiochiu speak their respective dielek.
we don't call ourselves han people but Tang (I also don't know where it came from maybe the Tang dynasty)
Hakka :TONG Ngin
Hokkien: Teng lang
Mandarin: Tang ren
If Han becomes a single country and rebuilds its dynasty, it is clear that Hakka, Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghainese, Beijing are tribes, not sub-tribes (no tibetan, mongol, manchu etc)
@@jokerxback2633 We call our Chinatowns in the UK 唐人街 ("Tang people street"). 😃We name ourselves after our greatest dynasties. Also the Tang dynasty was the most metropolitan and culturally accepting era. The Silk Road enabled exchange of peoples, goods and cultures. It wasn't until the Qing (non-Han dynasty) when China became closed off to the outside world and started to decline.
@@jvp9703 wow i think we are all the same as descendants still call ourselves Tang people, I don't know on the mainland call it Han, but this concept I understand better the term Han/Tang
Well there are differences between north vs south han ppl, due to genetic mixing of south han with southern ethnic groups, and north han with northern ethnic groups.
The original Han ppl started in the henan/shandong area, which is central north China.
The unifying thing is common written language the different dialects could be argued as different languages in modern linguistics, for example in north west china where i was born the local dialect would be intelligible to ppl from else where, the dialect has borrowed words and pronunciations from the various north western nomadic groups such as tibetan, mongolian, etc.
Also not many ppl know is that mandarin is a modern invention to simplify communication between people of different provinces.
9:47 Fujimori, whose photo you chose to represent Chinese diaspora in Peru, was ethnically Japanese, not Chinese.
Both Japanese and Chinese are Asians
My Chinese History professor, Dr. James Gao, explained that as different ethnic kingdoms were conquered by Imperial forces that they were culturally assimilated into the Han ethnicity by decree. This allowed conquered peoples to share in the benefits of core membership in the dominant civilization. There was always a little time (in some cases centuries) in which the assimilated people carried some memory of their pre-Han identity (Dr. Gao described himself as Mongolian Chinese), but because of the consistency of Chinese authority and the prestige of Chinese civilization those identities eventually faded away.
I also think that the ideographic nature of the Chinese writing script had a lot to do with the integrity of the Chinese identity. The Chinese written system of stylized pictographic characters was standardized across the empire during the Chin Dynasty in the 3rd century BC (and again by Mao Zedong in the 20th century). This meant that even people who couldn't communicate verbally with each other because of dialectic differences between regions could nonetheless correspond with each other. This meant that the educated classes shared literature and were able to accept governance without the need for translation even if they didn't speak Mandarin.
Another strong factor was the civil service examination regime. While dubiously relevant and frequently corrupted the presence of such an empire-wide egalitarian instrument for access to the imperial power base gave people within the provincial educated classes a feeling of inclusiveness in the civilization. Also, the regular rotation of provincial leadership incentivized the governors and magistrates to promote a sense of similarity between their carpet-bagging selves and their local subjects while at the same time discouraging the establishment of long term local power bases based on ethnocentric commonalities. Unfortunately the emperors often had no such luck with regard to the personality cults of their field commanders.
Manchus were racist towards Chinese. That's why most Hans had to wear a queue and a shaved head, while the ethnic Manchu could have facial hair and did not have to shave his head.
The Manchu emperors were afraid of their Chinese subjects and tried to make the Chinese assimilate into Manchurian culture. They ran into two problems: the size of Cultural China and the resilience of Institutional China. If the Mongols couldn't do it, the Manchus didn't have a prayer.
Alan Friesen Which University does your professor works?
I don't know if he's still there but I studied under Dr. Gao at the University of Maryland. I think there's a good chance that he has retired by now.
Basically China is a united version of Europe and middle east.
I am from North east India and I belong to Garo/A'chik tribe. We have an oral tradition that we immigrate from Tibet to present day North east indian states of Meghalaya (in search of agricultural lands) long time ago. And yes, we are 100% different from Mainland Indians. Our words sounds more like little bit Chinese like , south east asia and Tibet.
I am from middle of India, and we are also different from North South Indians
I am from north of India. My language is also different from South and East of India and west of India. I also look different than South East and west India
im from South India Kerala my Language =Tamil+Telugu
@@ChandranPrema123 what ?
@@ChandranPrema123 Not really 😂😂😂 Malayalam is a hybrid language that has loan words from old Tamil, sanskrit, Portugese, Dutch, Arabic and Persian. Surprising it has nothing to do with Telugu.
Thank you so much for this video. I've been asked this question many many times in Europe and every time I need to spend at least one hour explaining this, but some people are still confused or won't believe. This video should be in the textbook in Europe!
The difference between Masaman's content and comments is impressive.
astounding really. The nuance, research, and thought that goes into these videos only for a bunch of "edgy" kids to flood the comments with the same old "we wuz kangz n sheeiiittt" every time.
it's really annoying, you'd expect at least SOME thoughtful discussions but you can't even find them.
swedge
I wish knowledgeable people only would comment
swedge I like Chinese.
Swedge
indeed.... but sometimes (rarely), in the comments, a knowledgeable comment pops out
The Zhuang people have various dialects, they're pretty different, you can find a video where some Thai people go to Guangxi and try to communicate using Thai-Zhuang, they're successful in one part of town and not so much in another part of the same town! I read that the Zhuang language is more similar to Lao and northern Thai dialects.
they dont call it the middle kingdom for nothing
"Thai versus zhuang"in youtube.You can't really dispute what you see on the video, and there is a lot to be learned from that,
It surprised me a lot.When we found out and also ancient Thai people had DNA associated with northern Chinese people. (Thai ancient people are half Chinese). The latest information on ancient DNA ... Prof. Dr. Viphu also took a sample of ancient DNA in Pangmapha District, Mae Hong Son Province, 1,600-1,800 years old found that Pangmapha DNA has a 50% genetic ratio from northern China. This information goes into Thaipbs' TH-cam's topic of DNA, ancient people, cave-in.
When you hear that Muay Thai originated in China, don't be surprised. It's not that Chinese people are bragging, Guangxi has a similar ethnic group that has been inheriting the same culture.
The History of the Thai Chinese (Part 1) | The China History Podcast | Ep. 259
Good intro to the ethno-demographics of China. Living here for a couple of years, I've noticed that the Han Chinese often include many assimilated peoples. For eg. Most of the top surnames were royal last names at some point in time. These names were often given to minorities within China who have been assimilated in various ways. Some of the top names like Zhang (archer) or Ma (could be from Chinese for horse, or Mohammad) were assigned to ethnic Chinese vassals.
There are many reasons why minorities for the last couple thousand years assumed Han ethnicity and over time, their native cultures were largely lost. I've met many northerners who admit to being partly Mongol or Manchu though they are only Han on paper; conversely many southerners are Austronesian, Vietnamese, or Thai and others, but are Han on paper, even if they have a last name that was assigned to ethnic people in ancient times (eg. Pan, Fan, Lin etc.).
Very informative video ! Except for minor inaccuracy regarding ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori who is of Japanese ancestry indeed,the content and narratives of this video about China's ethnic mix are scholarly done. Thanks a lot and more success to your personal & professional endeavors!
Kudos, Masaman, on another well-done and well-researched video! 'Tis fascinating to see how many groups there who live in borderlands of China who are related to other peoples in neighbouring countries. There are, also, ethnic minorities, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus which founded dynasties that ruled over part or all of China in the past.
The Turks have never ruled China. On the contrary, China conquered the Turks and ruled for 50 years. Some Turks were assimilated by China.
Actually Han is a little more complicated than being a simple ethnicity like Sami or Mongolian. It is an admixture of various ethnicities and there is an ethnic gradient depending on where you are. It is like the modern British are a mix of Norman, Angles, Vikings, Celts etc. As you correctly noted, there are even physical differences not only between northern and southern Chinese, but even subtle differences between Cantonese and say Fujianese Hakka etc. Not only are the languages/dialects different, but even the customs, cuisine etc are different.The difference between neigbouring "dialects" like Cantonese and Fujianese are as different as Spanish from Italian, or Dutch from German.
Depends on what parts of Han China you're talking about.
Jane E Southern Han and Northern Han have different appearance bcuz Han ethnic was patrilineal inheritance in acient time. When Han ethnic conquered others, it get a various of foreign maternal gene. (Males? Died out.)
Han ethnic share 80% Y-chromosome similarity, which is the most pure in the world. But in Mitochondrial gene, only 30%.
That's why Han from different area have different appearance. Bcuz historically, most of Han people have a Han father but a non-Han mother.
Especially near the borderland. Bcuz Han kept expanding (conquering), it will be a lot of generations were gave birth by non-Han mother. So Han have enough diversification. But as a ethinic, it's most pure.
Even many ethnics in China are almost genetical Han. e.g.Nowadays Manchu share 60% Y-chromosome similarity with Han. And with the stupid ethnics policy (Minority preference), patrilineal inheritance were destroyed, now if one of the parents is non-Han, the children will be definitly non-Han. So those minority ethnics will soon be fulfilled with Han gene after several generations. But Han ethnic will stay pure.
the blonde hair and blue eyes people is chinese.but they are not han chinese.and 98%han chinese is not
Buddhist.
Jane E Never have come to China's retardation is also a weak intelligence that has not studied the human molecular science and Chinese history
keff Never have come to China's retardation is also a weak intelligence that has not studied the human molecular science and Chinese history
Thank u 4 recognizing that Africa is VERY DIVERSE!
Yea it's definitely a very diverse place. From very darkskinned nilotes to yellowishbrown bushmen.
@@YajuSenpai11451 that's racist
Yaju Senpai Kinda ironic since your people (the Mongoloid race) came from the Khoisan bushmen of Africa. I thought Japanese were smart? Next time research human evolution before going on the internet saying racist shit. Fucking moron.
yet black Americans claim that they have build the pyramids
Yaju Senpai you are just as dumb as the ones who claim all whites are the same
I enjoy your vids Masaman….I used to teach at a University in China for Chinese Cultural minorities....some of the more influential Chinese ethic minorities you did not mention would be the 'Miao' people and the 'Tu' people ...keep the great vids comming!
Again, Great Video! Loved it!
So much hate folks. It's bad for your health, literally. I'll just say this......people didn't grow from the dirt and create what we know the world as today. They "migrated"
Reggie Noble well technically one man was made from dirt, Adam 😀
Adam?His name was Tane.
+Reggie Noble Don't waste your breath, Reggie. Hating chinese is the norm now. Right wingers do it, left wingers do it. Everyone does it. Hypocritical arguments apply only to the chinese, but not to their own far more atrocious actions to the native north americans, armenians, kurds, northeast indians, kashmiris. Bah, non-chinese just suck balls.
@Reggie Noble: As a matter of fact, on the long term, in any part of the world and up to present day, migration has always been the exception and not the rule. Otherwise there would have been no chance for so many diverse cultures, languages and dialects to develop.
no no Europeans did come from Africa. As did all races. Pick up a biology book and study evolution.
"T'aoist," is pronounced dow-ist. That t-apostrophe is Wade-Giles transliteration of the original; "taow" is not totally wrong, it's just not quite right, and "dow" is closer.
I think for it to sound like D, you have to drop the apostrophe. T' would sound like t.
It was based on the Cantonese pronunciation in the 18th century
Fact: The homeland of Mongols is actually considered to be within the Inner Mongolia.
Too bad they are losing their culture and got outnumbered by Han colonists.
@@samuelfanning6598 fuck off
@@Mike-ve6wr Uh huh
@@samuelfanning6598 They're not losing their culture lol.
@警官 - K Right, because preserving a writing system compensates for being colonized by Han people, becoming a minority in their own land, and having little to no effort for cultural preservation or spread, while Mongolia is subsidizing Mongolian bands who are becoming famous worldwide for their music and traditional style.
Also, the Mongol language is in decline in China, not in Mongolia.
I just subscribed. Do a video on the Thai's as they are one of the very few countries who haven't met colonization.
FYI @masaman i thoroughly enjoy your videos but just to clarify i saw you posted a picture of Alberto fujimori former president of Peru ( Japanese ancestry ) when talking about the Chinese community in Peru. Again Fujimori is not of Chinese ancestry. I appreciate your videos and thank for the amazing work you do
Dude your channel is awesome.
Just the whole Premise of disecting race and ethnicity in a non biased way is extremely refreshing.
Excellent channel and video.I am glad I encountered your channel.Very informative and fun facts.
9:47 Alberto Fujimori is a Peruvian of Japanese descent.
Han Keat Lim exactly...and some think theyre indigenous to peru $5 indians
Hi this is DJ INKAST here once more, it is said by one holy Muslim man that after a while we will all be mix and I think this is a good thing as we're all meant to be coming from the same 2 original male and female. By nature humans are very hostile and I hope this will bring more love between us even though a lot of the groups that are hostile against each other are clearly closely related.
Thank you for the video. It sure was very informative . Nonetheless, when talking about the significant presence of Chinese in Latin American countries (Mexico and Peru the most exemplary), you included the photograph of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (a mistake). The population would refer to him as "el Chinito", ' The Chinese Guy' --with the ending -ito giving it a sense of endearment. Yet, he is of Japanese ancestors, not Chinese.
I appreciate your informative video and look forward to watching your other ones , as well. Thank you.
You are beautiful and I appreciate your sense of humor. I don't usually comment, but I think you deserve a compliment like this…if I don't mind sending a friend request to Gmail, I'd love to be your friend.
All your videos are very educational and interesting , well done
Thanks for uploading this video. People outside of China need to learn more about the population geography of China. Most westerners don’t even know China has 56 major ethnics. Han is just the one of the 56.
Yeah especially Americans who always sees China as a "single race country single language country" you can thank Hollywood who always portrays China as a "one race country" also many of my friends don't understand what i mean China is diversed, they were all like, "were are the Africans? where are the Latinos? the Pakistanis or Iranians eeh? yo man these people don't come to China it is Chinese who comes to them"
The problem is Westerners only see China through out the media and they also only visits the big cities where only Han Chinese lives, well that is also because 92% of China is Han Chinese and they control the media and the military.
product of imperialist of han chinese.. want to assimilate other ethnic group thru conquest and genocide.
Hi, Massaman, here's a fun fact about the "Caucasian" ancestry in modern Uyghur population. In a simple way to say, is that modern Uyghurs are basically half east asian, half white. But to be more specific, is that the Old Uyghurs mixed with Tocharians, plus various Persian/Arabic populations.
Their Turkic ancestors, also known as Uyghurs (but back then they were fully-east asian nomadic people living in Mongolian Steppe) moved to South to the modern day Xinjiang region around 7-8th century after the defeat of the Uyghur Khaganate. At Xinjiang, they encountered the native Indo-European people known as Tocharians, whose language is classified as a dead Indo-European language. Tocharians are genetically categorized as Caucasian, and they were the only group of Indo-Europeans who migrated to East the furthest during the 3rd-4th millennium BCE. After a few centuries of intermarriage and admixture between Uyghurs and Tocharians, the Tocharian language went extinct and they were Turkified, but their genes have passed down to every Uyghur generation. With the trading from silk road, there came many Arabic and Persian traders to Xinjiang, and further mixed with the local Uyghurs. In general, Uyghurs and many other Turkic peoples are very diverse.
A quick side note here: the Hui Chinese, the only muslim population who resemble to Han Chinese also formed their identity during the silk road trading period. According to the Molecular Anthropological genetic report, around 1/4 of the genes of the Hui population in North-western China are tested as West Asian (Middle Eastern/Persian). They are basically the descendants of Muslim traders who intermarried with local Han Chinese. However, they are partially Sinicized as they lost their original languages and today they speak mainly Mandarin Chinese. But fortunately their religion is preserved, and in daily life they still use some Persian-origined religious vocabulary, like "Xuda - God", "Asman - sky", "Nemaz - praying" etc.
I like your videos, and I wish you could make more videos about Central Asians in the future, as it is one of the most genetically diverse places with its unique and fascinating history in the world.
Patrick Lee, Which is why you can see the Persian influence in modern Uyghur culture and let's not forget their celebration of Nowruz too an Iranian holiday. You a Turk? At least you know that Uyghur came from the Mongolia Steppe after the Kyrgyz another Turkic group driven them out and force them to Xinjiang and towards the Tarim Basin. Uyghur were buddhist and believe in other religion before they were fully absorbed by Islam. Today you can see Uyghur who look fully East Asian in appearance, those that look full West Asian and those that have an admixture of both which makes them some of the most interesting people in China. Ancient Uyghur script is still use by Inner Mongolia while todays Uyghur adopted the Persian script.
UYGHURS ARE TURKIC(EURASIAN) PEOPLE!!!!!
supratrd900 Yes, it's exactly what you said. Nowruz is celebrated throughout Central Asia, but the custom is different depending on various places. My great-grandmother was a Kyrgyz from Kazakhstan, so I'm partially a Turkic person. I mainly focus on Uyghur and Kazakh history and their languages.
The Uighurs simply abandoned Mongolian they controlled. By the 7th century, the Tarim basin was already Turkic. Uighurs lived between Altay Mountain and Lopnur lake during the 3-6 century before they emerged as an Empire basing in Mongolia today. Tarim basin was conquered when Uighurs defeated Tibetans. Why people always tried to say Uighurs from Mongolia while completely ignoring Tarim Basin was a part of their empire?
Recent genetic studies put West Eurasian admixture in Hui people as only 10%.
When you talked about Chinese communities in Peru the man in the image was actually the former president/dictator Alberto Fujimori, who in spite of been called "El Chino" (The Chinaman) was actually of Japanese descent. Other than that this video was great.
BTW, you should look into the history of the Japanese people in Peru that I find extremely interesting, they arrived to Peru very poor but they worked hard and rose up in the social ladder until a point when they became part of the traditionally white-derived oligarchy.
During WWII, some Japanese-Peruvians were sent to American prison camps but eventually they returned to Peru and -again- they prospered.
Some people say Japanese became resented by the White-derived Peruvian oligarchy because they managed to outperform the oligarchs, which explain why the (White or mixed-White) Peruvian president during WWII offered to hand over many Japanese-Peruvian citizens even though the Americans never really made such request.
Japanese-Peruvians became very admired by poor Peruvians since they earned the reputation of been hard working and smart people who rose to the top from the very bottom, that played a major role in the election of Fujimori.
Name Fujimori itself is an obvious Japanese name
@@changwenliang7929 Fujimori is a corrupt President
Trimeresurus Albolabris Insularis name one president on earth who isn’t corrupt
The picture he used at 3:48 is also obviously Japanese architecture
I Really enjoyed your video! and I am glad your user name is Masam..I love the curry and is easy to remember:)
Excellent breakdown of a complex subject we tend to over simplify. Thanks also for narrating youself I'm absolutely unable to finish watching a video with computer synthesized narration. I believe all videos that use synthesized voice should come with a warning.
Thanks again well done.
Love your videos. 2 comments. Hungarians (aka Magyars) weren't Huns. They were Uralic Ongers or Ugurs (from which the word Ogre comes). Also, the Chinese word Hsiung-nu is pron- Shoo-noo. (and they were possibly related to Turks). Best wishes, Hal Elliott (in Utah).
Great video! I am curious where you acquired the term "pogrom" from. It is a Russian term meaning assault or attack which was what you were discussing. Is it common to other languages as well?
The word Pogrom is common to all Slavonic languages. It first came to English from the Stalin era pogroms. It is now common in English, just like Robot came to English from Slavic. And, there are many more.
Mason,good buddy,I so thoroughly enjoy your channel.I come to this more from my specialty of comparative religion,but obviously these categories all bleed into each other,whether it's ethnicity,linguistics,culture or religion.Keep doin' what you're doin',brutha!
What're the sources you're getting your information from? Love the video!
I am an ethnic Miao/Hmong from China. I get mistaken for Han, but I speak own native language, have different traditions, primarily animist and don't really celebrate the typical Han Chinese festivals.
niam txiv you sounded you rescind Chinese why? so do you consider you are Chinese ?
niam txiv 苗族不过春节中秋?头一次听说
苗族不过农历新年？？
但是苗族向来都蛮弱的 文化也不发达 自古以来在中国越南老挝泰国都是最贫穷的民族之一 人口那么多可是从来都没有独立建国过也没自己的宗教。反观其他宗族有白族曾建立过大理国，还有强大的吐蕃....
You Hmongs are really tenacious people survived in the middle of China. I know you are completely different from Chinese. Most of the people in China have been assimilated into Han Chinese. Long live Hmongs I hope you have own country one day.
I love your videos Masaman, but in this video you made a mistake when you mention the Chinese in Peru and you showed a pic of the former president Fujimori, he was of Japanese ancestry (and even had the Japanese nationality). Maybe you can add a caption just to acknowledge this. Thanks.
Han(汉) originally means the Galaxy in Chinese language. The Han is actually a fusion of various small ethnic groups, like the stars converge to form the Galaxy.
Thank you for citing your sources, bro
Could you make video about clans in different countries, for example in Scotland
Love your content it is excellent you can just tell by looking through the comments section and see how many small minds you have shattered with the reality of the complexities of human history and demonstrated how dumb and narrow their racist attitudes are in classifying humanity. The truth will always be greater and far more complex than what the average simple minded human being is willing to accept, plus it links directly to evolution so thats always gonna trigger a bunch of groups. Keep up the good work and its ok to make a few mistakes everyone does its an incredibly complicated topic and one I would imagine is very hard to get right down to the bottom of especially seeing as you tackling the whole world population at over 7 billion strong.
good video which already covers all major ethic groups and the information is also good
hello masaman, i would like to know where do you do your research for the videos, the content its great!
Informative and persuasive! Most, if not all, of the so called "Han Chinese" have multiple ancestries depending on the region they have been inhabiting and the indigenous groups with which they have been intermarrying. The Cantonese people, language and culture epitomise this incessant process of Sinicization, during which the indigenous groups, as conquered peoples, were Sinicized by Han conquerors. Therefore, the so-called Han Chinese population is more diverse than a lot of people originally think.
I had a professor who specialized on China and he told me that Han was basically the label given to people seen as "Chinese" but doesn't actually mean much beyond an administrative term.
@TK斷屌群衆 傻逼,汉族只是是一个名称而已不懂别瞎几把bb
Great videos dude!
Great and informative video :-)
Trying to identify Han in to individuals group can be a messy business, because the writing system is unified and rather consists through out time and region. The dialect is different because language do diversified over time a lot faster than the writing. The most recent example is English. Just in few hundred years of time you already get a language branch out some many forms. So if you picture it at millennium scale, it is not too far of stretched that language has been diversified to a state that they may sound like tow different language. The speed of a language evolve is affected by culture exchange as well. In the recent century especially last one or two decades there are lot of loan words being put in the language, people live in China in the 80 will have a very difficult time to understand what people are talking about despite the fact the pronunciation and grammatical structure remaining unchanged. But change do happens and it happens fast.
I dont know about everyone else, but i love this comment section. Its never boring.
In Bangladesh, there has a proverb that, after about 10 miles, accent & cuisine changes inevitably .(cz,population dense) Now i am thinking, how much sort of accent & culture could be in china as a gigantic country .
Btw, this video is amazing.
this video is amazing
Hey man, great video. Formally, I’m identified as Singaporean (Chinese). I am a 2nd/3rd generation immigrant.
Culturally, I identify more with the general Singapore culture while maintaining some of our “Chinese-ness”.
Yes, it’s true that the Han Chinese is rather a generic term. In China, Han Chinese are grouped into Northern Chinese and Southern Chinese.
My family came from South China and my grandma will refer to our ancestry homeland as Tangsha / Mountain of the Tang (dynasty).
Traditionally, we speak Teochew which is different from Cantonese although we are part of the Guangzhou / Canto region.
Teochew is hokkien?
In the past Malaysian Chinese would say they're "Tong shan yan" people of Tong Mountain (Cantonese).
Cool video. However, I get pretty annoyed when people mix up West and East, the main example being at 5:52.
I speak multiple Chinese dialect and English. the difficulty level between Han people from different area dialect to understand or learn to understand a new dialect, amounts from a heavy Australian accent to something like french to a english speaker. BUT the big but is: Chinese writing was unified since the birth of the empire. I can write anything to anyone who reads Chinese, does not matter even wecould not under stand each other speaking. even with Japanese we can do the same thing to a less degree, so was Korea and Vietnam if they didn't make up a new writing system in recent history.
Great channel man
When I was in South China, I realized many of them were small frame in size and very few of them were even tall or fat.
Then I was curious as to why, and an uncle of mine told me that for majority part of China’s history, the southerners were primarily farmers due to their prosperous
land and climate, and were also scholars as the southern part of China were fortunate enough to have mountains surrounding them which made invasion tough and tedious for any invaders.
Whereas for the northern part of China, there were many conflicts and wars due to the sharing boarders with Mongolians, Russians and Middle Eastern. Through centuries of external and internal conflicts, made the northerners taller and bigger in size as compared to the southerners.
Southerners have historically eaten rice and rice products. Due to differing economic conditions, northerners have traditionally eaten different grains: wheats, pulses, sorghum, etc. So the southern diet is lower on protein and more conducive to a short stature. Also just regional differences. Shandong doesn't border mongolia or anything, and yet shandong people are the tallest in east asia. taller than both mongols and koreans.
china and russia had not had alot of war. Chinas majority of war was against Korean ancient kingdoms. Also tibets mongols manchurian... Also on the modern almost every war against foreign was Japanese
The saying went that "The mountains are high and the emperor is a long way away" but today there are giant bridges across the ravines between the mountains and long tunnels through the mountains and high speed trains running across the bridges and through the tunnels, and so the emperor is no longer so far away.
But the southern Chinese are original Hans in North who exiled from wars and conflicts between Mongolians
@@jackytang3683 笑死了，南方人（两广）跟东南亚劣等马来混了太多的血，北方汉人更接近原始汉人
I actually spent a little over a month with one of these groups called the Yi people. They were amazing and culturally distinct people. With their own independent writings system and language as well as faith and traditions. I miss them everyday.
My mom's haploid group is from an ancient animist Island folk that were the ancestors of Yi. My dad's part manchurian. My 23andMe results say I'm 1 percent Anatolian and 99th percentile neanderthal.
The wisdom of Emperor Qin, was to have 1 written language. An ethnic group may pronounce a written character differently from another ethnic group. But the written character has the same meaning. In this way every ethnic group can communicate with each other using the same written character. For example the written character for “hand” is pronounced as “show” in Mandarin, “chiu” in Teochew dialect or “shao” in Cantonese. The uniform 1 written language enabled China to be governed for centuries.
Best channel ever!
I once read that the many diverse groups that make China see themselves primarily as “Chinese” despite being from different ethnic/linguistic groups because they see themselves as originating from the same civilization, sharing a common history. Their definition of nationality is different from how the term is used in the west with respect to European nation-states. Imagine if all former territories of the former Roman Empire saw themselves primarily as “Romans”.
Alberto Fujimori is not Chinese. He's Japanese. Peru had lots of Japanese and Chinese migration
In terms of nationality, Fujimori is Japanese because of parental heritage.
In terms of ethnicity, the Japanese is racially linked to the Chinese.
( Confirmed by recent archaeological evidence, the Japanese Emperor has ancestral origin from China. ) Please google the research info.
alberto Fujimori is a Korean ethnic Japanese citizen who was born in japan and lied as if he was born in peru, but he had Japanese citizenship at all times which is not acceptable both for japan and peru laws.btw Japanese are originally first Chinese and second guryeo ,baekja silla and gaya ethnics entered to the islands via Korean peninsula and Kyushu ,..
Haha its obvious in his surename... sounds like a Japanese
@Aline Cardoso in numbers but not as percentage of population
I am a Korean nationality, born in northeast China and living in northeast China for 30 years. I know my country's politics, economy, history, and humanities well. although I am not a professional scholar, I can sort out the fragmentary memories accumulated in my long experience as a whole.
Many people are willing to treat the Han nationality differently from ethnic minorities, believing that the Han nationality is the Han nationality and other ethnic groups are other ethnic groups. This view is not only believed by foreigners, but also by many Han people and other ethnic minorities. Once such topics are discussed too deeply, almost all Han people will be shy about not knowing whether they are not confident about the formation of their own nation or whether they will let a minority say that their history makes Han people uncomfortable. What I want to say here is my opinion. it does not represent other people, any region or any organization.
族谱可以追溯到至少上千年的历史，知道来源没什么不自信的
I think you are missing Tai- Kadai ethic group in Yunan, China. Theravada Buddhism is the most common in Xishuangbanna(Sipsongpanna). They still celebrate water festival( Songkran New Year) same as other Tai-Kadai groups.
Great information ,we live in a diverse world. I've always noticed how asians close to Russia take on different features...thank you for a great video.
Thank You! Refreshing to finally hear someone other than myself make this point! China does need a centralized goverment (not to specifically critique PRC). For the record, hegemony could be to used to harmonize or abused as an oppressive tactic. Human diversity & culture is an organic truth. Hegemony as a psychological means of shaping the collective identity of any given human population is too often manipulated for objectives that lack consideration for any given population's human dignity. (Chinese Hakka Jewish Christian. Go Figure) Only get so far with statistics. To know a people talk to them & interact with them. Nevertheless, Good Research & Conslusion.
It's a matter of perspective... Here we have a group of people (the Hans) who choose to look for similarities rather than differences, and built their language and culture that way.
More cool chinese culture would be so great to see in your videos!
@Masaman can you do a video on Nigerian tribes? It's the most diverse country in Africa.
I've always known about the various groups and language groups but this is very interesting to hear names locations.
When the call to register ethnic minorities came in 1959 over 180 groups applied. A few decades later only 55 had made the cut, the rest were lumped together as the 'Han', despite their differing languages (200 languages and hundreds more dialects), dress, looks, histories, cultural traditions and DNA. Insofar as they were citybuilding and farming, and without their own country across the border, included them into the fold (for example if Vietnam was still part of China most of the the Vietnamese would probably have been termed as one of the 'Han').
In short China has about 300 languages and 200 ethnic groups, more so than Europe. Even with the Han distinction, China's diversity index is still on a par with the US - 2/3 of its territory ruled by non Han and, the entire country with very high lingusitic and religious diversity. China is a an empire, of hundreds of conquested nations and peoples.
What happened in 1959 ??? And yes, why were there like 180 "applied" ????!! What do you mean 55/56 "applied" ? You cannot actually erase an actual DNA... Either you are a race, or you are not. Different dialects were more like, some odd sounds... When ROC was in power, they grouped only 5 major races... (only because they were)... I think you are talking more like "clans".... i.e. small groups of family-trees.
Great vid, thanks!
about Tibet and independence, i recognize that many Tibetans want independence, but is there any consensus on that opinion? is there any estimate to how much of the Tibetan population wants independence? I hear a lot of talk about it but this is something i havent heard anyone bring up
9:45 Fujimori has a japanese background
should be careful about your photos selection, it is not the first time i have noticed mistake! For example , the photo of Fujimori
Most interesting article! Thank you.
Unf, Masaman. You have no idea how many people on YT wouldn't even try to pronounce words that isn't English in fear of "butchering its pronunciation". God, I appreciate you.
Can you make a video about the Dutch sailors in the 16th century that landed in Korea and left descendents? I myself could be a descendent because my DNA test shows a trace amount of European.
Andy Kim i suppose you korean are son of E.T
I agree China is a very diverse country and there are common associated patterns on how northern versus southern Chinese people tend to look like. But My grandpa was an anomaly and so was my grandma. Both southern Chinese from Kaiping but opposites in appearance. My grandpa was apparently 6 feet tall. Unusual for a southern Chinese person. My grandma... although she was short at 5 feet, she had physical appearance closer to northern Chinese, smaller nose, monolids and pale skin. My grandpa had more typical southern Chinese face (tan, larger eyes and broader nose), it was just his stature that set him apart.
Historically there are various mass migration from North to South.
product of imperialist of han chinese.. wants to assimilate other ethnic group through conquest, genocide and rape their women.
Great video Mason
good info and research, thank you.
1:33 it's pronounced You-oe not You. In Vietnamese it means Viet. The reason why that dialect is called Yue is that there were ancient tribes call Yue in the South of China, some were assimilated by the Han Chinese (modern-day Southern Chinese), some were not and migrated to the South to become modern-day Vietnamese, Thai and Laotian.
粤语 and 越南 Yue are two different character...
@@EricChien95 the one for cantonese is a borrowed character that deliberately replaced one resembling the character 越, so they were originally the same. You can look it up on Wiktionary, one of the meanings of 粤 is 越
Indo-Chinese ethnic groups also includes Tamil-Chinese ethnic group based in Singapore, Myanmar and very small population in Tamilnadu(India).
You mean the Chindians.
Amongst all the bullshit posts on TH-cam, I really look forward to and appreciate your approach to explaining the diversity on this awesome planet we all call home. Thanks for the positive info.
The photo at 9:50 is not chinese, it is former president of Peru, Fokumori? who is Japanese ancestry. very informative.
Well, since the 90s we are having a considerable rising of Chinese immigrants in Brazil as well, especially in the Southeast region and especially in São Paulo where I live
Some cities like where I live have a considerable Chinese population (both immigrants and descendants), I have even studied with 2 Chinese guys on my senior year
Many of them became business owners here, and I'm sure that a lot ppl already went to a store or a restaurant owned by Chinese immigrants here, they are amazing ppl and I really love their food
Where do u live?
The boundaries between groups / regions of different ethics are blurred because of mixed marriages from migrations from north to south and from east to west for centuries. It is a mistake to based the separation of ethics still exists because of local dialects speaking languages. Han is all of those no longer obvious.
Good video. Well explained.
excellent work
Mamasan got all of his info from wikipedia and not from his own research. A lot of what he said are wrong.
The comment section for this page use to be intellectually stimulating. It has turned to shit like every where else on TH-cam.
I wish that people would actually talk about what the video was actually about. I love hearing different people's experiences and opinions on the subject.
I hear you. I love your videos. It seems like the comment section today is all kids or something just saying stuff like "we were Chinese and shit". It gets the most likes so it's everything that came up first on my phone.
+X5456 YZ shut up.i m Indian I came here bcoz I was confused.few days ago I watch one drama.but actor n actress their features were so different than regular Chinese ppl.she was hui n he was Han.also I was wondering how the heck Muslims entered in China.i was happy that China is not hybrid but after listening this video I m not happy any more.u all r mix like other countries.shame.
You need a better fan or two in your computer because I hear them going on super faintly in the background but recognize that sound anywhere lmao
You might want to learn how to correctly pronounce "diaspora" for your next video.
Also, the word Tao (and related words like Taoism and Taoist) is pronounced with a "d" sound at the beginning, not a "t" sound.
1:32 "Yue" (粵) not "Yu"
6:23 Pronounced like "Hway" not "Hwee"
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Chongqing is rather different from Standard Beijing. Also, talking to Chinese speakers, they even say that Cantonese is completely foreign to them. Also fun fact, Pol Pot had a Chinese grandparent even though he ordered the ethnic cleansing of Chinese in Cambodia.
Ghawk Pol pot was also 75% Cambodian and he ordered millions of Cambodians to their deaths
Chongqing dialect belongs is very closing related to Mandarin ( due to the recent migration of Han Chinese to these regions) . Whereas Cantonese ,min or hakka are very distinct languages Closer to the language spoken during the Tang Dynasty where as Mandarin is regarded to be a language later un History.( Tang poem sound better ( the flow)with Cantonese or Hakka than mandarin)
So did Mao Zedong starved 60 millions Chinese !
Standard beijing mandarin was based on manchurians’ pronounciation of mandarin words
I've dealt with Cambodian refugees. A tragic situation.
i know its politically incorrect but if your going to do a chinese history video, can we please try to pronounce the chinese names (please)
Please excuse my OCD. Great video. The gentleman in the Peruvian spot, is the ex-president of Peru Alberto Fujimori. He is 100% Japanese. The information was correct, not the picture. Pax!