Xinjiang’s ‘fourteenth ethnicity’ leave family language and culture for China’s opportunities

Source: South China Morning PostWhen Nurzhan* was a young boy growing up in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang, he remembers heated football matches in which he and his friends would butt heads with fellow ethnic Kazakh children.On one side were Nurzhan and his friends, the min kao han, a Chinese name for members of ethnic minorities who take schooling and exams in Mandarin. On the other side were the min kao min, or ethnic minority groups who take schooling and exams in their own native language.“The min kao min are much…Read More

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