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Q: What special rights do China's ethnic minorities get?
rich45 for the win!!! "the right to do as their told by the Han majority." I'll add to exist in a fashion the Party sees fit. To watch the new Han settlers get all the money from your homeland.
Dont forget the right to reduce you culture and language to a tourist attraction for the Han majority.
In all seriousness, the right to have more babies, but I think they have to be living in their designated minority zones. In Guangxi, a lot of people with only a drop of minority blood but who only speak Chinese, look Chinese, and practice Chinese customs still claim minority status just for that.
In minority areas, there will often (not always) be bilingual signs on government buildings, and minority quotas for bureaucratic jobs.
The minority people I've met are really great at taking shit. They get all the condescending treatment foreigners get but worse, but they just smile and chug along.
I was in Guangxi this summer and a Han sixteen year old at the school I was working at asked two Zhuang with doctorates if they could speak 'baihua', even though they had been speaking perfect standard Mandarin all evening, just to be snarky and put them in their place. They were constantly subject to that BS but they just didn't seem to care.
GuilinRaf:
They also get additional points in the "Gao Kao" or College Entrance Exams and there are quotas in the Universities for Minority students.
