re: #209 wheat-dogg

Some facts about Chinese Uyghurs.

The government requires them to adopt a two- to three-character Chinese name for national ID purposes. (Also true for Tibetans.)

They are becoming a minority in their own homeland, as the government has enticed Han majority people to move there. (Again, same is true for Tibet.)

They are more closely related genetically and culturally to Turkic peoples in Central Asia.

Their food is damned good.

And yes, there are many beautiful (and tall!) Uyghur ladies. Quite a few at the university I used to teach at in Hunan.

This flies in the face of the “white genocide” crowd who argue that diversity is killing off what makes us supposedly unique.

I’m familiar with the Uighurs and the repression they’ve gone through since 1949. Don’t like what China is doing in Xinjiang by encouraging more Han settlement to dilute Uighurs of their presence and numbers. It should be celebrated instead of repressed. I’m concerned about how many Uighurs will end up becoming more radicalized as a reaction to the repression and make things a lot worse for the province.