No such thing as pure Han Chinese
THE majority Chinese ethnic group - Han - may turn out to be a false proposition.
The latest ethnology finding said pure-blood Han people have completely vanished into the racial mixes, People.com.cn reported on Monday.
Han Chinese characteristics couldn't even be traced in DNA tests, the news report said.
"The non-existence of pure-blood Han ethnic people is a result from centuries of mass migrations as well as racial integrations," said Xie Xiaodong, associate professor of Lanzhou University's Life Science Department.
"The Han ethnic group is simply a concept based on certain regions in history, thus lacking definite characterization," added the ethnologist.
Ethnic Han ancestry traces back to the ancient Chinese living in the central plains along the Yellow River in northern China, including Henan province and some areas in southern Shanxi, western Jiangsu and northwest Anhui provinces nowadays.
- China Daily
Comments (22)
The religion issue is used by some politicians as their political bullets. They are those who are firing up the anger and hatred. But now they are talking about 1 Malaysia. Pure BULLSHIT.
I am non-bumi, but I love the malays. If you ask me if I would stab a malay with knife, etc if I have a chance, the answer is NO. Why would I?
Another thing that the government is doing silently to break us apart, is the "religion" column in every single form that we fill. Why bother? The existance of "race" column is already bad enough.
Malaysians, we are all smart asses. Please do not let this religion issue hinder the bond and relationship.
Nobody is talking about religion here.
It's called "race" or "ethnicity".
If you believe in god (Muslim or Christian), who claim god made all-man, why we should downgrade each other, since we all from the same source. Man is man and human is human.
And mind you, if put religions aside, there is research done saying the possibility all man-kind originate from a source in Africa.
Whatever you believe, we are of from one source.
Don't degrade your "own" people. We are all Malaysian..
Those who claim from a particular religion but condemns others don't seems to understand the teaching of god. God sees us as the same for all.
My dear fellow Malays, be open-minded and objective in making statements. My dear fellow Chinese and Indians, our forefathers came together hand-in-hand to form this great nation. Let us continue this tradition now and in the future.
no matter who is right or wrong here, the replies are flaming fire.
Peace