I'm not saying that the mechanism in China is perfect ,in fact no country can be perfect. While we are developing, anything bad happens, we 'll find the reason and make changes. As u say ,the gov hide SARS from people, then what about this time ,the bird flu, the gov take a lot of measures to let the public know everything and protect people from getting affected. see the history of Europe, America, in the process of their developing ,a lot of unhuman evil things happened, a lot of people died ,at that time, they believe the same god u believe now. Did they ever care about human life and rights ? Does splittists exist only in our country ? In ur democracy country and quite a lot of countries, doesn't it exist ?If not ,why U india depart from UK? why ireland depart from UK ? why does there still exist so many splittists in France and other countries ?
Minorities can get extra points ,no matter they know Mandarin or not. In my college , students from Xinjiang have to spend one year studing Mandarin first. If not ,how could they study in my college ,where quite a few of them are there ? how could they live and communicate with others ? anything wrong learning Mandarin ? Mandarin is becoming more and more popular all over the world.korea, America, Japan,......U mentioned culture, well ,we hans have our traditional culture, but now ,where are they ? men used to see a long hair as their life thing. there are a lot of people who preferred suitciding to getting their hair cut. and girls like to have their feet wrapped to a tiny one. and now what ? No man would ever do this. why ?because we are westernized. a more civilized culture become ours. in fact ,people in Xinjiang are westernized, to live a more reasonable and civilized life.
well, all I said is the truth that happened arround myself ,I saw with my own eyes. I have sweared to ur god, My father believe this when I was 9 years old till now. In fact ,nowadays a lot of hans tend to believe in western god. It is not a matter of majority population or not, yes ,hans population is much biger. while it doesn't mean hans can treat Uighurs badly, in fact ,quite contrary, the Uighurs use their identity to do bad things. lots of times. when a thief steal something from others, he will surely be punished. while when a Uighurs steal from other, he will be set free. and when they get involved in a fight ?they will also be set free of punishment. why ?u surely can't understand. because they are the minority. they could effect the People uniting in our coutry. this is the gov attitude. so ,in most cases, we hans do feel unfair.
In fact, I don't believe in any god myself. Like a little child, he may have quite a lot of desires, many of them are wrong, which should be forbidden. in China ,people have their religion freedom too. If u look down upon money, I really admires u much. man can't live without it . see the history, economy things can be got from centuries. why democracy can be realized in a few years. When we got final success in economics, we will look into democracy. this is the same way Singapore, Japan and quite a lot of other country prove themselves successful. See the African countries ? they succeed in democracy, while how many centuries will they succeed in economics ?God knows ..
In the process of developing, Europe and the US may have gone through great injustices. But does that mean that their experience and incorrect attitude should not teach us and instead just because they have done it, it means we too can do it? I don’t think so. One has to learn from others’ mistake too!
Insurgents exist in many developing countries including India and they are being helped by outside interests. But in a democracy, everything that is happening is known since the media is open and none can gag them. In China, the media is of the State and only news that the CCP wants is known. When the Tibetan riots were on, the foreigners and foreign media was expelled and the CCP carried out huge repression that was only known through clandestine means. If such means were not used, none would know of the horrible repression done by the CCP.
We did not leave the UK. India was not a part of Great Britain, it was a part of the British Empire. We were different people. We won our independence.
The Irish, Scots, Welsh, Celts etc are the people who make up the UK. The Irish separated because they were Catholics and they did not want to be under Protestant rule.
No. learning Mandarin is not wrong. It fact it is good to know as many languages one can learn. The issue is that it should not be forced, directly or indirectly. The operative word is – Forced! If one cannot get a good job or go to university just because they don’t know Mandarin, it means forcing one to learn the language by indirect pressure!
Not having long hair or small feet is because Mao forced the people to change. It has nothing to do with becoming westernized. It is part of Mao intelligent ways to tell the condition the Chinese people to realize that Mao’s diktats were the last word in everything. Hair and feet etc has nothing to do with becoming more civilized! Next, someone will say that not eating dogs (as the Chinese do) is a sign of the Chinese being civilized! There are many people in the world, including China, who think the dogs are a delicacy as some feel that frogs legs or eating snails (as in France) is a delicacy!
I am not saying that the Uighurs can do anything they like and that has to be accepted. But if the Tibetans and the Uighurs want to maintain their own religion, culture and language, then it would be wrong to wipe such things out. It is like forcing a Muslim to eat pork. Just because the Hans love eating pork, if you force the Hui to also it pork, they will rebel.
Of course, all countries want to unite their countries, but countries that are multi lingual, multi cultural and multi religious have to be more cautious while handling the minorities. One cannot force them to conform to the wishes of the majority.
In China, the so called religious freedom you have is under State supervision. Controlled religion. The Bishops are selected by your Govt; in fact on this issue there was much problem with the Vatican and the Pope. The CCP selects the Christian priest, the Muslim Imam and the Buddhist priests. All sermons are checked by the CCP apparatchik. That is no religion! That is why there are underground and illegal prayer meetings held in houses of Christians and Muslims. In Xinjiang, Muslims below the age of 18 are not allowed to attend the Mosque or have recourse to Islamic teaching. .
Money is important in life, but to abandon basic human morality and lust only for money is not the right approach. Today, Russia and China are where they are is all because money making was pushed in the background and nation building was made the credo by ruthless dictators. And so a decadent people were herded to work for the State and the State looked after their earthly need. It is not idea, but people who are bone lazy possibly deserve such a shake up. It was not difficult for these dictators of USSR and Mao’s China because they did not know democracy in the first place. They were all under various rich landlords.
The lust for money and making money as the sole purpose of life leads to some getting rich and some remaining poor. Such disparity is what cause revolutions!
Already there is discontent between the people of rural China and the urban China, between western China and Coastal China!