Differences Between The Hans And The Rest Options

[FKR]

Greeting All,

I somehow have overlooked this Chinese related matter for a long time, and it is just now that I have begun to realize how certain Chinese posters on this message board have spelled out the fine distinctions between the so-called “Chinese” people. For example, anthropologists claim that the present-day Southeast Asians were originally migrated from “Southwestern China”. However, those people were not Chinese ethnically.

Then there are the dominating “Han Chinese”. A few posters here are of the Han Chinese ethnic group. In the outside world such as Cambodia, the Khmer people refer to the people who migrate from China simply as “Chinese”. However, the so-called Chinese classify themselves based on “five major linguistic groups”.

Consequently the members of the major category of Chinese includes “the Teochiu”, “the Cantonese”, “the Hokkien”, “the Hakka”, and “the Hainanese”

My question is if those so-called Chinese are not of the dominating Han Chinese to begin with, then are those linguistically different Chinese groups the ethnic minority people within the larger Chinese society? I would appreciate your enlightening of my curiosity.

FKR

[KoRn]

post threads like this in serious chat in the future. thank you. no warning since you are new.

[FKR]

Greeting KoRn,

Thank you for not penalizing me. If you don't mind can you tell me what you would you use to judge the "seriousness" of a post?

If you are real strict, you might be suffocating the posters.

FKR

[CTangCG5]

yes

[WhoAmI]

Debate or Post any Chinese government, history, political, racial, and/or serious topics here.

[FKR]

Chinese Chat: Talk about the Chinese culture here.

Debate or Post any Chinese Debate or Post any Chinese government, history, political, racial, and/or serious topics here. and/or serious topics here.

Well isn't the term "culture" already includes "government, history, political, racial..."?

Now the "seriousness" is another issue. It is based on the purpose of the writing itself. My purpose is to get the responses to my essential question in my post.

[dalawapo]

Greeting KoRn,

Thank you for not penalizing me. If you don't mind can you tell me what you would you use to judge the "seriousness" of a post?

If you are real strict, you might be suffocating the posters.

FKR

I think that is kind of strict to punish somone for that, he didnt seem to have a bad intension for writing this, and sure it maybe out of the serious section but i dont think he intentionally wrote it in the non senious section to be some sort of rebel,

maybe this happened because when you click any given ethnicity's forum, it opens up to the main board and shows all the topics of the main board. and the serious section is just a small box at the topic often over looked.

if you desire to keep things orderly maybe it would be a good idea to bring the poster to a page where they can either click one box that will lead us to the Serious topic board or the other box that leads us to the main topic board. And that way the poster has to think whether the post they are going to write is truely belonging to the serious section or the main section. is that understandable?

[Kulong]

Some facts:

There are 57 identified ethnic groups in China. Han make up 92% of the total population of 1.2 billion.

There are 7 Chinese (Han) dialect groups. Hanyu (Mandarin) covers northeastern, northwestern, and southwestern China. The other six, Yue (Cantonese), Min (Taiwanese, Fujianese), Wu (Shanghainese), Gan, Xiang, and Kejia (Hakka) cover southern China.