• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    I assume most race counters on a global would just consider Western European Descent as one, if they even differentiate between Caucasians at all, but if you go to Europe then you meet people with heritages from all over the world pretty regularly and if you go to China you mostly meet people from China whose family is Chinese going back many generations. Maybe it’s a cultural issue or maybe that’s just the result of their previous massive increase in population after industrialization and the legislative failures of the Mao regime meaning the naturally occurring ratio is skewed that far from the norm.

    I don’t know, and I don’t really care, tbh.

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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.