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
The distrust of the Chinese comes from bad doings in what seem to be the small and clean businesses of Chinatown. Chinamen tend to associate themselves with drugs and gambling and will sometimes pick one of the two over food and shelter. In order to fit in, Chinamen adopted white women as their wives. From the perspective of an outsider, it appears that the wives have power in the relationship but taking a closer look you will see that they do not. Often times, wives would be beaten by the Chinamen if they were out of place.
In the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, Chinese people immigrating to Canada were frequently denied the legal rights they deserved. The Chinese people immigrated over to Canada for a means of making money to support their families who were still in China. The Chinese were involved in the British Columbia gold rush and they helped with the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th century. Between 1881 and 1884 alone, over 15, 000 Chinese immigrated to Canada. Some of the rights violations against the Chinese include being denied the right to vote, paying a head tax upon arrival to Canada, and being given the most dangerous spots on trains.
Additionally, previous dynasties, like the Shang, Zhou, and Qin, created a bureaucratic precedent for a centralized government. Therefore, the Han
Source 4 says the written characters have been reduced and standardized for the whole country. The people understood each other because of the written characters but the characters were much the same as those used today. This helped Ancient China improve of power and be unified with more people, this could create a whole village. The emperor Qin Shi Huang bought a big change of power to Ancient Chinese society by standardizing money and building a great wall barrier across all
There were two major dynasties in Ancient China, Qin and the Han. The Qin ruled first and created many policies that were adopted and abandoned by the Han dynasty. In the Qin dynasty, Shi Huangdi made a policy called standardization. Standardization is to set rules to make things more similar.
Chinese immigrants experience much more hardship compared with what they contribute to the society. It seems that every immigrant needs to suffer a lot of bias and hardship in America because of cultural difference. Culture shock leads to many misunderstandings and causes conflicts. That is easy to understand. However, Chinese immigrants are treated unfairly because more complex reasons.
When the American Congress passed these laws to curb Chinese immigration, the Chinese population in decreased from over 140,000 to 75,000. The Chinese family life became difficult, with husbands working in the Unites States, while wives and children stayed in China. Most Chinese Americans linked the divided and weakened China to the unfair treatment of Chinese people in America. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first immigration law on the basis of race in American history.
China, up until the Qin Dynasty, consisted of independent states controlled by kings fighting each other for land and power. This time period was called The Era of Warring States, which lasted two hundred years. After this time, the Qin Dynasty rose to power. They conquered all other dynasties, and established a centralized government, unifying China for the first time. The dynasty that succeeded the Qin, the Han, continued the centralized government and they started a westward expansion that would encourage trade and cultural diffusion.
Although this was not a happy lifestyle to live in this was still far superior to being a slave in greece which was a very common occurrence because in greece 36.5% of the population were slaves compared to only 7% of the population being slaves, mean people or other demeaning jobs in Han china. In addition Han china had a population of 65,000,000 vs only 315,000 in athens which was one of the large greek city states. This data proves that Han china’s form of government can control a larger
Articles, essays, threads talking about its hardness, peculiarity, oddity…etc written by language learners abound in forums and Internet. In the presence of all, “Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard” by David Moser is a well-known piece of article, as the title indicates, this article mainly talks about how daunting hard Chinese is to westerners comparing to other European languages. With a rather bantering and playful tone, this article points out the difficulty of Chinese in terms of its writing system, phonology, romanization and Chinese cultures …etc. After reading this article, people may be intimidated by Chinese and dismiss it right away. Truly Chinese is so different from other European languages, but is it really that hard?
Being one of the longest of China’s major dynasties, the Han Dynasty, founded by Liu Bang, began in 206 B.C. and ended in
These sources of inequality are inherent in China’s hukou system which restricts rural migrants from privileges enjoyed by urban residents in terms of social security such as retirement benefits, schooling, and housing (Joseph, 2014, p. 260-261). The addition to income from a university education compared to that of primary schooling has increased dramatically from 9% in 1988 to 39% in 1995 to 88% in 2002 (Gustafsson, Li and Sicular, 2008, p. 25). This means that levels of educational attainment highly influenced the income earning prospects and is a significant factor of income inequality in China. Indeed, gap in education contributes as much as 11% to China’s Gini coefficient (Gan 2013, p. 18). The exclusivity of access to education inherent in the hukou system therefore significantly contributes to the rising levels of inequality in
Mandarin are spoken by 71.5 percent of the population followed by Wu which is 8.5 percent, then Yue which is 5 percent (Yue is more referred as Cantonese.) Hakka is spoken by 3.7 percent of the population. Min is spoken by 4.1 percent of the population. Then, followed by Xiang which makes up 4.8 percent of the spoken population. Gan then makes up 2.4 percent of the population.
Instead of using a small alphabet to mix and match known letters to create a word, the Chinese people have a separate symbol for each word, and each one needs to be learned and committed to memory. Not only is this a long and difficult task, it is also so different from the way that we perceive languages as English speakers that it is hard to wrap our heads around, especially when learning Mandarin as an
Although this huge population not really share same dialects or language, but in general we could still have a harmonious relationship between different ethnic groups. Doubtless, Han is the main population in China, however, it does not mean that only Han culture is important, in opposite, a variety of dialects could be also a tool to maintain this harmonious condition and to keep different areas’ local culture which constructed our nation 's’ diversity. Dialect is an expression in cultural heritage, it carries regional culture, cultural characteristics of the area it is also the root of the folk culture. Therefore, government agencies and linguists should take active and effective measures to rescue endangered dialects and protect them so that they can inherit regional culture and promote social stability at the same time. Dialect should be cherished and protected, it constructed our beloved