re: #380 wheat-dogg

The Hui tend to keep a low profile, because they’ve been living among the Han much longer than the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. As for learning Mandarin, everyone has to learn it in school. It’s China’s common language. Otherwise, even Han from different parts of China would be unable to understand each other. My students tell me that their roommates can speak to their moms on the phone and be completely unintelligible to anyone else in the dorm.

I have to dig up a post I made about a Uighur student who wrote a nuanced understanding of how Uighurs should live in China, it was a couple of years back…sometime in early 2015 is all I can remember.

Let me dig it up and I’ll repost the link.