Ethnic Stratification In China

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According to the ethnic stratification; therefore, the striking economic and social changes in China over the past decades may have forced most of ethnic minorities into more deprived positions. In modern society, education is the fundamental for social stratification. According to basic researches, we solve the difference between ethnic minorities and Han in terms of their educational attainment from 1982 to 2005, and calculate the segregation index in the table 3 (Xiao gang Wu,2014) for all 18 minorities as a group, and for each of the 18 minorities. As basic tables demonstrate that, before modern society, minorities in general are less advantaged behind Han in educational progress. Educational enlargement throughout the past three decades …show more content…

The work of Chinese polymath Shen Kuo (1031-1095) of the Song dynasty theorized that the sun and moon were spherical and wrote of planetary motions such as retro gradation as well postulating theories for the processes of geological land formation. It is not clear that there is huge discrimination and prejudice against Han society; however, they are the ones that really discriminate against other minorities. Firstly, they hate black people because of several basic reasons such as beauty standards, cultural differences etc. Most Africans and people from other places other than East Asia are loud, too confident, sag their pants, play loud music, and swagger around wherever they go. This is regarded as being rude and too full of oneself in Chinese culture. In addition, Han Chinese people are simply law-abiding citizens while foreigners like to question the authorities. Moreover, it’s a shame some black businessmen are living illegally in Guangzhou. Another point is that Han Chinese people do not prefer the poor people to live in their country. Because, they are one of the talented people in the …show more content…

This integrity is respected to the Qin dynasty (秦朝) which combined the different modes of writing that existed in China at that time. For thousands of years, Literary Chinese, which consisted vocabulary and grammar importantly distinct from the diverse ways of spoken Chinese, was the standard written style. Since the twentieth century, written Chinese has usually been regional Chinese, a style which is largely based on dialects of Mandarin, and not the local dialect of the writer (with the exception of the use of written Cantonese). Thus, although the citizens of variousareas might not necessarily understand each other's speech, they would be able to realizeeach other's writing. Standard spoken Chinese is based on the Beijing Dialect. Other dialects include Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, and other minority languages. Han has been the one and only official written language in China since Qin Dynasty. Some of the