India is the most ethnically diverse country outside Africa.

[funtoosh]

Yesterday I went to a friends house who is a Bengali. We are south Indians. We realized how different we are in terms of many customs tradition, food etc, but as we kept talking we all relate to things as Indians and ultimately there is a beautiful thread that has strung us together and with passage of time getting stronger. My cousin recently got engaged to a mahar ashtrian and as time passes we will see more of this thus hopefully giving a rich fusion of culture. Got to Love the idea of India.

 

[KS]

In that research for example is stated that Iran has a bare majority of Persians, and than a great minority of Azeris, and 7 other ethnical groups. They overlook the fact that of those 7 other ethnical groups, most of them belong to the Iranian people, like the Kurds, Lurs, Bakhtiari, Gilani, Mazandarani, etc.

There is no great genetic diversity among human beings. 99.8% we are all the same. The rest all differences occur in the remaining 0.2%. This is a scientific fact.

 

[haidian]

^^^ These are ethnic minorities from the far Northwest. They don't represent the majority of Chinese people in ethnic terms.

not 56 races. just one race: Mongoloid. 56 ethnicities in it.

I m talking about this ignorant comment and those western people number over 10 million,not quite a small number.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

There is no great genetic diversity among human beings. 99.8% we are all the same. The rest all differences occur in the remaining 0.2%. This is a scientific fact.

Scientifically, yes.

Though in practice, there are a lot of divisions based on centuries of perceptions, cultures, etc. to make "race" a very real concept in the modern world, even though scientifically there is not much difference.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

China is almost a single nation state

And we are proud of this

 

[haidian]

And we are proud of this

single nation states have some advantages when it comes to economy and develpment,look at Japan ,Germany,Korean..but China is not quite a single nation state,she has 56 ethnic groups.two thirds of her land is ethnic minority autonomous regions.so in China Han Chinese has more people,ethnic minorities have more land.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

single nation states have some advantages when it comes to economy and develpment,look at Japan ,Germany,Korean..but China is not quite a single nation state,she has 56 ethnic groups.two thirds of her land is ethnic minority autonomous regions.so in China Han Chinese has more people,ethnic minorities have more land.

some minorities are created by CCP, ethnically, they are all Han chinese. such as Zhuang and TU. China has just 5 ethnic groups Han, Man, Meng, Hui and Zang

 

[haidian]

some minorities are created by CCP, ethnically, they are all Han chinese. such as Zhuang and TU. China has just 5 ethnic groups Han, Man, Meng, Hui and Zang

there are 13 minority groups in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous alone,what do you term those groups?

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

there are 13 minority groups in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous alone,what do you term those groups?

Hui. CCP identify the ethnic groups based on USSR methods

 

[haidian]

Hui. CCP identify the ethnic groups based on USSR methods

Huis are the echnic Han muslim,their race,language and everything are the same as Han Chinese,but other muslim groups are not.

Hui

Tajik

DO you believe that they belong to the same ethnic group.they diagree,they are everything different excepet for the same religion.

 

[illusion8]

I m talking about this ignorant comment and those western people number over 10 million,not quite a small number.

That's still much less than 1% of your population.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

In thread of Indian diversity, we see photos of diversity of China.

But one should appreciate and respect the diversity of ethnic groups, otherwise it can lead to disturbances and clashes.

 

[haidian]

That's still much less than 1% of your population.

The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group, where some 91.59% of the population was classified as Han Chinese,55 other ethnic groups are recognised in mainland China by the PRC government, numbering approximately 105 million people, mostly concentrated in the northwest, north, northeast, south, and southwest but with some in central interior areas.

What do you called those 105 million non Han Chinese?if much less than 1% of Chinese population are minorities,since Han Chinese account for 91% of the total,what are those 8% of the population are?

In thread of Indian diversity, we see photos of diversity of China.

But one should appreciate and respect the diversity of ethnic groups, otherwise it can lead to disturbances and clashes.

the OP reported China and Pakistan as well,and an Indian #9 suddenly started accussing China out of nowhere and that brought Chinese webusers here.

#9

What we are proud of is that we respect diversity.... and that doesn't affect our unity.

China actively suppresses cantonese, hokkien etc.. and foolishly doesn't realizes what it's losing with it.

 

[iajj]

every proud race tries to impose a political boundary for itself, and the most powerful ones succeeded. some still more superior races manage to not only create an exclusionary polity for itself but expand their imperium to protect feebler nations and peoples: the roman empire, the chinese empires, the german empires, the british empire, the russian and soviet empires and nowaday, yes, PRC.

ethnic purity is thus a patent sign of the political will, strength and superiority of the race.

by contrast, some meekish nations are unable to stand on its own and fence in a territory just for itself. their borders are drawn by a pencil of their masters. such is the fate of most modern day african nations whose cartography was a whim of white people sitting in a comfortable palace somewhere in europe (that is, tens of thousands of kilometers away from the actual border and the actual peoples with no clue what the ethnic reality on the ground was). the explosive ethnic mix - or diversity, as in your euphemism - was the unfortunate result of africans' weakness at the time of colonization and slavery.

alas, it takes a whole new level of slavish mentality for an indian to say not only were they too meek and weak to impose national borders for their own that guarantee racial homogeneity within their borders but they actually delight in this imposed nation-state and imposed racial diversity. now i know why india was colonized even before most of africa was.

 

[SQ8]

Africa is a Continent .....
India is a country....

Yes the original Indian Subcontinent that was bounded by the times of Gondwanaland.. is the most diverse after the Continent of Africa.