kalu_miah
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We believe in meritocracy in China. Uighur have more rights than other minorities and majority Han but they failed to integrate and be productive. No offense, but it's due to Uighur unwillingness to read /write Chinese is their own fault. Majority of them go to religious schools and learn their language. Don't expect a good job from that.
Most people around the world are sick of entitlements and free handout.
For once, work on betterment of oneself and quit attending useless religious schools that will not get you a good job.
I have met Uighurs below 30 who are working in foreign companies, govt. institutions and doing business, all are fluent in Chinese. May be they are exceptions because they are from good educated families. And all of them had no problem getting drunk and having fun.
The other issue is negative inducement. Positive inducement is a much better method to get people away from undesirable behavior:
Contemporary Issues in Public Policy: Inducements
From babies to adults, the more we try to force people's behavior in a certain way, it usually has the opposite effect, they try to cling to those undesirable behavior even more, the attraction of the forbidden fruit:
Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From what I have seen, Uighurs are capable people, they have a wonderful cuisine, their dance and music is exquisite and I absolutely adore their dance and traditional music. Just because they follow a certain religion, it should not automatically make them less capable of being productive citizens. Their biggest drawback is that Chinese is not their mother tongue, which they have to learn and master, which is not the case with majority population and most other minorities.
As for entitlement and affirmative action, yes for an economy like the US or EU, I don't support them at all, as it makes people lazy, but I think you have a slightly different situation in Xinjiang. It will be good for Chinese state to use positive inducement to get majority Uighurs on their side and identify the traitor bad apples, who I believe are traitors not just for Chinese state, but Uighur people as well. When the Chinese state will have the 99.99% Uighur's loyalty and gratitude then it becomes a very easy job to find the traitors. The 99.99% Uighurs will then find the other 0.01% for you.
I support a strong security state, as I do not think developing countries have much alternative for that to maintain peace and stability, but at the same time there has to be other ways to induce people to earn their loyalty and gratitude.
I do not mean to interfere in other state's affairs, but just answering your post with my opinion.
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