• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    if you go to China you mostly meet people from China whose family is Chinese

    Where as when you go to Europe…

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      5 months ago

      You will meet people with heritages from all over the world. For example, the UK has local heritage demographic around 74%, and of combined total white demographic of around 81%. That’s a much different number than the Chinese 91%.

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        5 months ago

        You can cross the straight in from France or take a thirty minute flight from Spain and be counted as “non-local”. Meanwhile, traveling from Shenyang to Shenzhen means nothing.

        The islanders of Hainan are no different than the mountain men of Inner Mongolia.