Talk:Ethnic minorities in China

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I think this topic should consolidate with Demographics of China. ---voidvector

Some websites say "55 ethnic minority groups" or simply say "56 ethnic groups", other websites say "56 ethnic minority groups" but never mention 57 total, so I am confused of how many is actually recognized in total 56 or 57. ---voidvector

I figured out "Dulong" and "Drung" are the same ethnic group. they are duplicates. See here ---voidvector

The name of the ethnic groups in the article are transliterated according to pinyin, right? But in China there's an official Names of nationalities of China in romanization with codes, and I think it should be adopted. --Lorenzarius 17:19 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)

Chinese Jews

I have read a lot on the internet and heard from many friends that Jews are recognised as an ethnic minority in China and that although the Chinese Jews (from Kaifeng?) look Chinese they still have some practices which are recognisably Jewish and their Jewish ethnicity recognised on their passports. Is this all true or just a wild rumour? If so which of the names on the list stands for them (which chinese characer)?Zestauferov 10:38, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

There was a Jewish community in Kaifeng for several hundred years, but as far as I know they are no longer active and have melted into the surrounding population. User:Roadrunner

I see. Thankyou. Can anyone tell me what was the chinese character for the Kaifeng Hebrews/Jews?Zestauferov 09:28, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I believe you're looking for this: "犹太人" Abstrakt 04:05, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Changed a bit. Minzu seems to almost always be translated as nationalities in Chinese documents. User:Roadrunner

Question: Any object if I change the name to list of Chinese nationalities? Nationalities is the standard Chinese translation for the term minzu (you can do a search on google for this). Also in the case of the Hui, it makes much more sense, since the Hui contains a lot of different groups that aren't ethnically related at all. User:Roadrunner

Article name

Ethnic minorities China is a very awkward article name. Can we please change this to something more appropriate, maybe one of the names that redirects here? -- Jmabel | Talk 11:17, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

China influenced by USSR

"Chinese ethnicities theory is heavily influenced by that of the Soviet Union. Official policy is against assimilation and maintains that each ethnic group should have the right to develop its own culture and language."

I guess the USSR said this officially but never really practiced it, instead it destroyed entire cultures and religions and swept them into the "dustbin of history" as Trotsky put it.

If your looking for specific USSR policy on this, Stalin wrote an essay called "The National Minority Question" which might be useful as to the theoretical underpinnings of the USSR's policies. Interestingly enough, they run counter to some of Marx's writings on the topic. - JH 23 March 2006

Future of the article

It would be nice if this article would move in a direction way from relying solely on the PRC "56 nationalities" list. Not that the list should be gotten rid of: there's nothing wrong with it for the most part. It makes a good starting place. However, it has its limitations, such as the case of the "undistinguished nationalities" and the indigenous Taiwanese. There's a lot that can be said about the ethnic demographics of China that doesn't fit into that framework.

Also, I'm not sure "Nationalities of China" is the best title for this page. I know that many sources conventionally translate 民族 as "nationality", but this is distinctly ambiguous in English. What's wrong with "ethnic groups in China" or something like that? - Nat Krause^(Talk!) 20:56, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kaifeng Jews

An anon recently edited the article to claim that Kaifeng Jews are among the recognized nationalities in China, but provided no references to the claim. I didn't find anything about thin on internet and lerning that there are about 400 Jews an Kaifeng, I assumed this was a hoax or misinformation and anon's edits are reverted. I may well be wrong, so please investigate.

By the way, a drawback of this article is lack of any link/reference to official data. `'mikka (t) 03:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Census?

An article similar ro United States Census is missing. `'mikka (t) 04:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]