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by rayiner 14 days ago
The interesting thing about this is that China’s homogeneity is a result of ethnogenesis. 90% of the country is “Han Chinese,” but people in different parts of the country look very different and their dialects of “Chinese” aren’t mutually intelligible. It’s kind of like if you took everyone from AOC to Tim Walz and relabeled them all “British American.”