For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.

Now, that push has been codified into a sweeping new law that reaches into classrooms, neighborhoods and homes – and gives Beijing the right to target people outside of its borders that it believes violate its rules.

The statute, officially known as the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, came into effect on July 1. It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division” among China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities, which include a Han Chinese majority that makes up over 90% of the country’s 1.4 billion people.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Nah that’s not true - I live in Asia. Generally people in Asia have very little care for ww2 history outside of China and Korea because they’re too pragmatic and busy developing themselves to focus on what happened almost 100 years ago.

    For example got to Vietnam as an American and you’ll be more popular and liked than you ever were America. Go to the Philippines as a Japanese, and you’ll make more friends than you ever had in Japan.

    It’s mostly propaganda that still keeps this history alive though in all fairness Japan not accepting responsibility officially is exactly what allows this propaganda to exist.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Again… Not saying all people are holding it against individuals. However there is still plenty of animosity against the Japanese government, which is still denying war crimes.

      There are plenty of Koreans that are completely fine with Japanese tourists, have Japanese friends, or have gone to school in Japan. That doesn’t mean there isn’t animosity concerning the Japanese state.

      You can hate Nazis without hating the German people. The only difference is that Japan essentially still has the same ruling class with the same beliefs in their government.

      It’s mostly propaganda that still keeps this history alive

      What propaganda? People are allowed to be upset at a government that still denies the war crimes their parents/grandparents committed. It doesn’t require propaganda to dislike the fact that a national unapologetically enslaved, killed, tortured, or raped your family members and tried to rewrite your cultural history.