re: #374 electrotek

How the fuck do the Communist-led party expect social cohesion and harmony if there’s that much fucking separation between the two? I know it goes both ways since there are some Uighurs who are hesitant on learning Mandarin but it seems that a lot of it was forced upon them by the Han elite.

That being said, I wouldn’t say China is anti-Muslim since the Hui are awarded generous privileges that make Uighurs blush with envy. It also doesn’t help that Hui are also becoming more despised (if not already) by the Uighurs who see Huis as collaborators with the Han establishment.

The Hui tend to keep a low profile, because they’ve been living among the Han much longer than the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. As for learning Mandarin, everyone has to learn it in school. It’s China’s common language. Otherwise, even Han from different parts of China would be unable to understand each other. My students tell me that their roommates can speak to their moms on the phone and be completely unintelligible to anyone else in the dorm.