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.
Yes, like American bigots screaming ‘love it or leave it,’ and ‘stand for the flag, kneel for the cross,’ or other demands to adopt an identity rooted in American nationality with allegiance to ethnic majority culture.
The ones trying to make the majority language the only official primary language, even in communities where yeehaw jingoism has done considerable damage, or outright stolen entire nations’ worth of land.
The ones eager to project that, globally, as if sovereignty is when you get to say what people do in other countries.
Yes, like American bigots screaming ‘love it or leave it,’ and ‘stand for the flag, kneel for the cross,’ or other demands to adopt an identity rooted in American nationality with allegiance to ethnic majority culture.
The ones trying to make the majority language the only official primary language, even in communities where yeehaw jingoism has done considerable damage, or outright stolen entire nations’ worth of land.
The ones eager to project that, globally, as if sovereignty is when you get to say what people do in other countries.