The 'hanification' of china

brianthebard

There's been a lot of talk about John Gormley's comments at the weekend (which aren't of particular importance to this thread) but a lot of commentators seem confused about the reason why the people's republic of china would be upset about anyone referring to Tibet as a country.
I believe that the PRC is engaged in a cultural white wash of its provinces and regions, much like the russification of Russia and the USSR under certain tzars and dictators, respectively. In this case the Russian governments tried to propagate the myth that the slavic peoples were many branches of the one tree, the roots being Russia. China attempting to do the same thing, bringing together different ethnic groups, many of whom speak different languages, have different customs, etc, but which the Chinese government wants to convert into good han chinese citizens.

Agree/disagree?

oscarBravo

Not a Theory thread. Feel free to contribute to one of the threads on the main Politics forum.