China has approved a sweeping new law which claims to help promote “ethnic unity” - but critics say it will further erode the rights of minority groups.

On paper, it aims to promote integration among the 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, dominated by the Han Chinese, through education and housing. But critics say it cuts people off from their language and culture.

It mandates that all children should be taught Mandarin before kindergarten and up until the end of high school. Previously students could study most of the curriculum in their native language such as Tibetan, Uyghur or Mongolian.

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    16 hours ago

    Which is a false equivalency to a state forcing a minority group to learn the majority language.

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      11 hours ago

      all minority groups in the us have to speak english. most states have a variation of this for that matter?

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          11 hours ago

          sure. do ethnical minorities born in, say, spain not have to learn spanish?

          tell me of states where this isn’t true.

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              then put your money where your mouth is and fight it in your own country instead of acting all twisted up when some country starts doing it.

              spanish is the second most spoken language in the us, do you speak it?

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      Forcing? Do you think parents should be allowed to remove the kid from those classes? Just send them out in the world unable to communicate with anyone outside their hometown?