Re: But which Chinese ?
There is a difference between modern ...
1) Western Chinese
2) Singapore Chinese
3) Hong Kong Chinese
4) Malay & Indonesian Chinese
5) Taiwanese Chinese
6) Mainland Chinese
- Han Chinese mainlanders
- 55 or so Minorities Chinese (Esp in Yunnan (southwest) which has more
minorities than any other part of China)
Hong Kong companies like to hire Chinese from 1, 2 & 4 as they tend to be more creative compared to locals
Actually Mainlanders consist of an estimated 55 ethnic groups of which the Han Chinese (popularly called Chinese culture) are 92% of the population. The Han moved from the middle to upper part of China, to other regions and to the south.
[link|http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/minority/minority.html#ethnic|Chinas Ethnic Groups by Name & region]
[link|http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinethn.html|What defines an ethnic group in China]
Doug Marker
(The order used in the list does reflect my limited opinion)
