I've always thought of "Han" as being similar to "Roman". By the end of the Roman Empire, a great many different people all over the Mediterranean identified as Roman and spoke Latin. China had an extra thousand years of centralized government and so has more linguistic and cultural uniformity in an area that may have been more diverse in the past.
Vietnamese also know as kinh people they are Han Chinese everywhere , they stolen land from Montagnard Jarai, Ede .... tribe Malayo, Polynesian austronesian in Central highland today , we facing discrimination by Vietnamese , vN government
Actually, There is a theory, the ancient Chinese also think the roman is like Chinese, thus, they use their ancient dynasty 's name to address Roman. Although there thousands years and miles between you and ancient Chinese, What you think is consistent with the ancient people,
Northern Europeans/Scandinavians have mostly blonde hair blue eyes, while most southern Europeans/Spaniards, Italians have dark hair, dark color eyes. Most Northern Chinese and southern Chinese do not have same features, northern Chinese generally taller, lighter skin complexion. Because of the diversity of Chinese culture, that makes China a fascinating country, variety of Chinese food, traditions, fashions, fruits, just to name a few.
@@machinegun2282 don't be surprised there are blonde hair blue eyes Chinese, there are many Caucasian Oriental mix at the Chinese border of Russia and also Turkey.
My Chinese History professor, Dr. James Gao, explained that as different ethnic kingdoms were conquered by Imperial forces that they were culturally assimilated into the Han ethnicity by decree. This allowed conquered peoples to share in the benefits of core membership in the dominant civilization. There was always a little time (in some cases centuries) in which the assimilated people carried some memory of their pre-Han identity (Dr. Gao described himself as Mongolian Chinese), but because of the consistency of Chinese authority and the prestige of Chinese civilization those identities eventually faded away. I also think that the ideographic nature of the Chinese writing script had a lot to do with the integrity of the Chinese identity. The Chinese written system of stylized pictographic characters was standardized across the empire during the Chin Dynasty in the 3rd century BC (and again by Mao Zedong in the 20th century). This meant that even people who couldn't communicate verbally with each other because of dialectic differences between regions could nonetheless correspond with each other. This meant that the educated classes shared literature and were able to accept governance without the need for translation even if they didn't speak Mandarin. Another strong factor was the civil service examination regime. While dubiously relevant and frequently corrupted the presence of such an empire-wide egalitarian instrument for access to the imperial power base gave people within the provincial educated classes a feeling of inclusiveness in the civilization. Also, the regular rotation of provincial leadership incentivized the governors and magistrates to promote a sense of similarity between their carpet-bagging selves and their local subjects while at the same time discouraging the establishment of long term local power bases based on ethnocentric commonalities. Unfortunately the emperors often had no such luck with regard to the personality cults of their field commanders.
Manchus were racist towards Chinese. That's why most Hans had to wear a queue and a shaved head, while the ethnic Manchu could have facial hair and did not have to shave his head.
The Manchu emperors were afraid of their Chinese subjects and tried to make the Chinese assimilate into Manchurian culture. They ran into two problems: the size of Cultural China and the resilience of Institutional China. If the Mongols couldn't do it, the Manchus didn't have a prayer.
The label "Han" is slightly odd. Using myself as an example, my father is of Hakka descent, a subgroup of the Han, and my mother's family are from Guangxi, again Han. Our family speaks mostly Cantonese between relatives. We have not been formally taught Mandarin, but the grammar and and vocabulary is almost identical so we can still understand quite a bit without any formal learning. We share similar customs, history, traditions, myths, festivals, and beliefs with a majority other Han people. In effect, we as a people have not really changed much over thousands of years as invaders have simply been absorbed with little to no influence on our cultural identity. In contrast to the UK where I'm born, the Irish, Scottish and English may have intersected during their tumultuous history, disagree over different sects of the same religion, and use English to communicate, but they have their own distinct native languages and identity. So even if everyone is called "British", the ethnic differences are very clear.
The Han concept can be said to be a nation. Han is taken from the Han dynasty, the people who were ruled during the Han dynasty had the same culture, in the Qing dynasty era (Qing conquered other nations/states) which in general had a different culture from the Han. uygur, mongol, tibetan, manchu actually they are very different (but now manchu have assimilated into han) I am also a Hakka from Indonesia, here we are also not taught to speak Mandarin. the community, hakka, hokkien, tiochiu speak their respective dielek. we don't call ourselves han people but Tang (I also don't know where it came from maybe the Tang dynasty) Hakka :TONG Ngin Hokkien: Teng lang Mandarin: Tang ren
If Han becomes a single country and rebuilds its dynasty, it is clear that Hakka, Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghainese, Beijing are tribes, not sub-tribes (no tibetan, mongol, manchu etc)
@@jokerxback2633 We call our Chinatowns in the UK 唐人街 ("Tang people street"). 😃We name ourselves after our greatest dynasties. Also the Tang dynasty was the most metropolitan and culturally accepting era. The Silk Road enabled exchange of peoples, goods and cultures. It wasn't until the Qing (non-Han dynasty) when China became closed off to the outside world and started to decline.
@@jvp9703 wow i think we are all the same as descendants still call ourselves Tang people, I don't know on the mainland call it Han, but this concept I understand better the term Han/Tang
Well there are differences between north vs south han ppl, due to genetic mixing of south han with southern ethnic groups, and north han with northern ethnic groups. The original Han ppl started in the henan/shandong area, which is central north China. The unifying thing is common written language the different dialects could be argued as different languages in modern linguistics, for example in north west china where i was born the local dialect would be intelligible to ppl from else where, the dialect has borrowed words and pronunciations from the various north western nomadic groups such as tibetan, mongolian, etc. Also not many ppl know is that mandarin is a modern invention to simplify communication between people of different provinces.
She might have come from within current borders of china but she is definetely not an ethnic chinese.much probably she is an uyghur.if not, then she is from Kazakh or Kyrgyz minority.if still not, then from sari uyghurs somewhere in Ordos region, in the east.. How do I know? her eye color and hair color speaks to me.
astounding really. The nuance, research, and thought that goes into these videos only for a bunch of "edgy" kids to flood the comments with the same old "we wuz kangz n sheeiiittt" every time.
So much hate folks. It's bad for your health, literally. I'll just say this......people didn't grow from the dirt and create what we know the world as today. They "migrated"
+Reggie Noble Don't waste your breath, Reggie. Hating chinese is the norm now. Right wingers do it, left wingers do it. Everyone does it. Hypocritical arguments apply only to the chinese, but not to their own far more atrocious actions to the native north americans, armenians, kurds, northeast indians, kashmiris. Bah, non-chinese just suck balls.
@Reggie Noble: As a matter of fact, on the long term, in any part of the world and up to present day, migration has always been the exception and not the rule. Otherwise there would have been no chance for so many diverse cultures, languages and dialects to develop.
I am from North east India and I belong to Garo/A'chik tribe. We have an oral tradition that we immigrate from Tibet to present day North east indian states of Meghalaya (in search of agricultural lands) long time ago. And yes, we are 100% different from Mainland Indians. Our words sounds more like little bit Chinese like , south east asia and Tibet.
I am from north of India. My language is also different from South and East of India and west of India. I also look different than South East and west India
@@ChandranPrema123 Not really 😂😂😂 Malayalam is a hybrid language that has loan words from old Tamil, sanskrit, Portugese, Dutch, Arabic and Persian. Surprising it has nothing to do with Telugu.
Actually Han is a little more complicated than being a simple ethnicity like Sami or Mongolian. It is an admixture of various ethnicities and there is an ethnic gradient depending on where you are. It is like the modern British are a mix of Norman, Angles, Vikings, Celts etc. As you correctly noted, there are even physical differences not only between northern and southern Chinese, but even subtle differences between Cantonese and say Fujianese Hakka etc. Not only are the languages/dialects different, but even the customs, cuisine etc are different.The difference between neigbouring "dialects" like Cantonese and Fujianese are as different as Spanish from Italian, or Dutch from German.
Jane E Southern Han and Northern Han have different appearance bcuz Han ethnic was patrilineal inheritance in acient time. When Han ethnic conquered others, it get a various of foreign maternal gene. (Males? Died out.) Han ethnic share 80% Y-chromosome similarity, which is the most pure in the world. But in Mitochondrial gene, only 30%. That's why Han from different area have different appearance. Bcuz historically, most of Han people have a Han father but a non-Han mother. Especially near the borderland. Bcuz Han kept expanding (conquering), it will be a lot of generations were gave birth by non-Han mother. So Han have enough diversification. But as a ethinic, it's most pure. Even many ethnics in China are almost genetical Han. e.g.Nowadays Manchu share 60% Y-chromosome similarity with Han. And with the stupid ethnics policy (Minority preference), patrilineal inheritance were destroyed, now if one of the parents is non-Han, the children will be definitly non-Han. So those minority ethnics will soon be fulfilled with Han gene after several generations. But Han ethnic will stay pure.
Up until the 1900s, there were thounsands of Chinese Jews concentrated in one region. Then communism wrecked all the religions and cultures. Many Chinese jews said fk it, and blended into the Han Chinese. Then decades later, today, many are discovering their hertiage and going back to Israel.
@警官 - K Right, because preserving a writing system compensates for being colonized by Han people, becoming a minority in their own land, and having little to no effort for cultural preservation or spread, while Mongolia is subsidizing Mongolian bands who are becoming famous worldwide for their music and traditional style. Also, the Mongol language is in decline in China, not in Mongolia.
Hi, Massaman, here's a fun fact about the "Caucasian" ancestry in modern Uyghur population. In a simple way to say, is that modern Uyghurs are basically half east asian, half white. But to be more specific, is that the Old Uyghurs mixed with Tocharians, plus various Persian/Arabic populations. Their Turkic ancestors, also known as Uyghurs (but back then they were fully-east asian nomadic people living in Mongolian Steppe) moved to South to the modern day Xinjiang region around 7-8th century after the defeat of the Uyghur Khaganate. At Xinjiang, they encountered the native Indo-European people known as Tocharians, whose language is classified as a dead Indo-European language. Tocharians are genetically categorized as Caucasian, and they were the only group of Indo-Europeans who migrated to East the furthest during the 3rd-4th millennium BCE. After a few centuries of intermarriage and admixture between Uyghurs and Tocharians, the Tocharian language went extinct and they were Turkified, but their genes have passed down to every Uyghur generation. With the trading from silk road, there came many Arabic and Persian traders to Xinjiang, and further mixed with the local Uyghurs. In general, Uyghurs and many other Turkic peoples are very diverse. A quick side note here: the Hui Chinese, the only muslim population who resemble to Han Chinese also formed their identity during the silk road trading period. According to the Molecular Anthropological genetic report, around 1/4 of the genes of the Hui population in North-western China are tested as West Asian (Middle Eastern/Persian). They are basically the descendants of Muslim traders who intermarried with local Han Chinese. However, they are partially Sinicized as they lost their original languages and today they speak mainly Mandarin Chinese. But fortunately their religion is preserved, and in daily life they still use some Persian-origined religious vocabulary, like "Xuda - God", "Asman - sky", "Nemaz - praying" etc. I like your videos, and I wish you could make more videos about Central Asians in the future, as it is one of the most genetically diverse places with its unique and fascinating history in the world.
Patrick Lee, Which is why you can see the Persian influence in modern Uyghur culture and let's not forget their celebration of Nowruz too an Iranian holiday. You a Turk? At least you know that Uyghur came from the Mongolia Steppe after the Kyrgyz another Turkic group driven them out and force them to Xinjiang and towards the Tarim Basin. Uyghur were buddhist and believe in other religion before they were fully absorbed by Islam. Today you can see Uyghur who look fully East Asian in appearance, those that look full West Asian and those that have an admixture of both which makes them some of the most interesting people in China. Ancient Uyghur script is still use by Inner Mongolia while todays Uyghur adopted the Persian script.
supratrd900 Yes, it's exactly what you said. Nowruz is celebrated throughout Central Asia, but the custom is different depending on various places. My great-grandmother was a Kyrgyz from Kazakhstan, so I'm partially a Turkic person. I mainly focus on Uyghur and Kazakh history and their languages.
The Uighurs simply abandoned Mongolian they controlled. By the 7th century, the Tarim basin was already Turkic. Uighurs lived between Altay Mountain and Lopnur lake during the 3-6 century before they emerged as an Empire basing in Mongolia today. Tarim basin was conquered when Uighurs defeated Tibetans. Why people always tried to say Uighurs from Mongolia while completely ignoring Tarim Basin was a part of their empire?
I had a professor who specialized on China and he told me that Han was basically the label given to people seen as "Chinese" but doesn't actually mean much beyond an administrative term.
"T'aoist," is pronounced dow-ist. That t-apostrophe is Wade-Giles transliteration of the original; "taow" is not totally wrong, it's just not quite right, and "dow" is closer.
I am an ethnic Miao/Hmong from China. I get mistaken for Han, but I speak own native language, have different traditions, primarily animist and don't really celebrate the typical Han Chinese festivals.
You Hmongs are really tenacious people survived in the middle of China. I know you are completely different from Chinese. Most of the people in China have been assimilated into Han Chinese. Long live Hmongs I hope you have own country one day.
The Zhuang people have various dialects, they're pretty different, you can find a video where some Thai people go to Guangxi and try to communicate using Thai-Zhuang, they're successful in one part of town and not so much in another part of the same town! I read that the Zhuang language is more similar to Lao and northern Thai dialects.
It surprised me a lot.When we found out and also ancient Thai people had DNA associated with northern Chinese people. (Thai ancient people are half Chinese). The latest information on ancient DNA ... Prof. Dr. Viphu also took a sample of ancient DNA in Pangmapha District, Mae Hong Son Province, 1,600-1,800 years old found that Pangmapha DNA has a 50% genetic ratio from northern China. This information goes into Thaipbs' UA-cam's topic of DNA, ancient people, cave-in.
When you hear that Muay Thai originated in China, don't be surprised. It's not that Chinese people are bragging, Guangxi has a similar ethnic group that has been inheriting the same culture.
Good intro to the ethno-demographics of China. Living here for a couple of years, I've noticed that the Han Chinese often include many assimilated peoples. For eg. Most of the top surnames were royal last names at some point in time. These names were often given to minorities within China who have been assimilated in various ways. Some of the top names like Zhang (archer) or Ma (could be from Chinese for horse, or Mohammad) were assigned to ethnic Chinese vassals. There are many reasons why minorities for the last couple thousand years assumed Han ethnicity and over time, their native cultures were largely lost. I've met many northerners who admit to being partly Mongol or Manchu though they are only Han on paper; conversely many southerners are Austronesian, Vietnamese, or Thai and others, but are Han on paper, even if they have a last name that was assigned to ethnic people in ancient times (eg. Pan, Fan, Lin etc.).
Yaju Senpai Kinda ironic since your people (the Mongoloid race) came from the Khoisan bushmen of Africa. I thought Japanese were smart? Next time research human evolution before going on the internet saying racist shit. Fucking moron.
When you talked about Chinese communities in Peru the man in the image was actually the former president/dictator Alberto Fujimori, who in spite of been called "El Chino" (The Chinaman) was actually of Japanese descent. Other than that this video was great. BTW, you should look into the history of the Japanese people in Peru that I find extremely interesting, they arrived to Peru very poor but they worked hard and rose up in the social ladder until a point when they became part of the traditionally white-derived oligarchy. During WWII, some Japanese-Peruvians were sent to American prison camps but eventually they returned to Peru and -again- they prospered. Some people say Japanese became resented by the White-derived Peruvian oligarchy because they managed to outperform the oligarchs, which explain why the (White or mixed-White) Peruvian president during WWII offered to hand over many Japanese-Peruvian citizens even though the Americans never really made such request. Japanese-Peruvians became very admired by poor Peruvians since they earned the reputation of been hard working and smart people who rose to the top from the very bottom, that played a major role in the election of Fujimori.
Han(汉) originally means the Galaxy in Chinese language. The Han is actually a fusion of various small ethnic groups, like the stars converge to form the Galaxy.
Actually all chinese are not the same, only some ignorant people think like that. There are many mongolic, tungusic, turkic people living in china and all of them despite being asian look different than han chinese. All asians dont look a like, thats a myth, asians differ from each other more than african look a like. Korean, japanese, chinese, mongolian people - I can all seperate them by their faces.
Tulpar Kül Tigin Tengrikut I agree. Even though this may seem irrelevant but I would also like to add too that many people believe Chinese, Koreans and Japanese look the same but to a degree, not really. The Japanese mixed with different tribes of people such as Ainu, Jomon and Yaoi from my knowledge. The Yaoi’s originated from Korea and is the reason why Koreans and Japanese share similar genetics and features. The Chinese are mixed all kinds of tribes (I’m a bit unsure which ones though lol.) Not to mention your environment plays a huge role in your appearance. Even your diet makes for small changes. I believe if people did research on this then everyone would be a little more educated on East Asia and not ignorantly group them all together and say they’re all the same.
When I was in South China, I realized many of them were small frame in size and very few of them were even tall or fat. Then I was curious as to why, and an uncle of mine told me that for majority part of China’s history, the southerners were primarily farmers due to their prosperous land and climate, and were also scholars as the southern part of China were fortunate enough to have mountains surrounding them which made invasion tough and tedious for any invaders. Whereas for the northern part of China, there were many conflicts and wars due to the sharing boarders with Mongolians, Russians and Middle Eastern. Through centuries of external and internal conflicts, made the northerners taller and bigger in size as compared to the southerners.
china and russia had not had alot of war. Chinas majority of war was against Korean ancient kingdoms. Also tibets mongols manchurian... Also on the modern almost every war against foreign was Japanese
The saying went that "The mountains are high and the emperor is a long way away" but today there are giant bridges across the ravines between the mountains and long tunnels through the mountains and high speed trains running across the bridges and through the tunnels, and so the emperor is no longer so far away.
Hi this is DJ INKAST here once more, it is said by one holy Muslim man that after a while we will all be mix and I think this is a good thing as we're all meant to be coming from the same 2 original male and female. By nature humans are very hostile and I hope this will bring more love between us even though a lot of the groups that are hostile against each other are clearly closely related.
I actually spent a little over a month with one of these groups called the Yi people. They were amazing and culturally distinct people. With their own independent writings system and language as well as faith and traditions. I miss them everyday.
My mom's haploid group is from an ancient animist Island folk that were the ancestors of Yi. My dad's part manchurian. My 23andMe results say I'm 1 percent Anatolian and 99th percentile neanderthal.
I am a Korean nationality, born in northeast China and living in northeast China for 30 years. I know my country's politics, economy, history, and humanities well. although I am not a professional scholar, I can sort out the fragmentary memories accumulated in my long experience as a whole. Many people are willing to treat the Han nationality differently from ethnic minorities, believing that the Han nationality is the Han nationality and other ethnic groups are other ethnic groups. This view is not only believed by foreigners, but also by many Han people and other ethnic minorities. Once such topics are discussed too deeply, almost all Han people will be shy about not knowing whether they are not confident about the formation of their own nation or whether they will let a minority say that their history makes Han people uncomfortable. What I want to say here is my opinion. it does not represent other people, any region or any organization.
In terms of nationality, Fujimori is Japanese because of parental heritage. In terms of ethnicity, the Japanese is racially linked to the Chinese. ( Confirmed by recent archaeological evidence, the Japanese Emperor has ancestral origin from China. ) Please google the research info.
alberto Fujimori is a Korean ethnic Japanese citizen who was born in japan and lied as if he was born in peru, but he had Japanese citizenship at all times which is not acceptable both for japan and peru laws.btw Japanese are originally first Chinese and second guryeo ,baekja silla and gaya ethnics entered to the islands via Korean peninsula and Kyushu ,..
Very informative video ! Except for minor inaccuracy regarding ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori who is of Japanese ancestry indeed,the content and narratives of this video about China's ethnic mix are scholarly done. Thanks a lot and more success to your personal & professional endeavors!
I agree China is a very diverse country and there are common associated patterns on how northern versus southern Chinese people tend to look like. But My grandpa was an anomaly and so was my grandma. Both southern Chinese from Kaiping but opposites in appearance. My grandpa was apparently 6 feet tall. Unusual for a southern Chinese person. My grandma... although she was short at 5 feet, she had physical appearance closer to northern Chinese, smaller nose, monolids and pale skin. My grandpa had more typical southern Chinese face (tan, larger eyes and broader nose), it was just his stature that set him apart.
Thanks for uploading this video. People outside of China need to learn more about the population geography of China. Most westerners don’t even know China has 56 major ethnics. Han is just the one of the 56.
Yeah especially Americans who always sees China as a "single race country single language country" you can thank Hollywood who always portrays China as a "one race country" also many of my friends don't understand what i mean China is diversed, they were all like, "were are the Africans? where are the Latinos? the Pakistanis or Iranians eeh? yo man these people don't come to China it is Chinese who comes to them"
The problem is Westerners only see China through out the media and they also only visits the big cities where only Han Chinese lives, well that is also because 92% of China is Han Chinese and they control the media and the military.
When the call to register ethnic minorities came in 1959 over 180 groups applied. A few decades later only 55 had made the cut, the rest were lumped together as the 'Han', despite their differing languages (200 languages and hundreds more dialects), dress, looks, histories, cultural traditions and DNA. Insofar as they were citybuilding and farming, and without their own country across the border, included them into the fold (for example if Vietnam was still part of China most of the the Vietnamese would probably have been termed as one of the 'Han'). In short China has about 300 languages and 200 ethnic groups, more so than Europe. Even with the Han distinction, China's diversity index is still on a par with the US - 2/3 of its territory ruled by non Han and, the entire country with very high lingusitic and religious diversity. China is a an empire, of hundreds of conquested nations and peoples.
What happened in 1959 ??? And yes, why were there like 180 "applied" ????!! What do you mean 55/56 "applied" ? You cannot actually erase an actual DNA... Either you are a race, or you are not. Different dialects were more like, some odd sounds... When ROC was in power, they grouped only 5 major races... (only because they were)... I think you are talking more like "clans".... i.e. small groups of family-trees.
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Chongqing is rather different from Standard Beijing. Also, talking to Chinese speakers, they even say that Cantonese is completely foreign to them. Also fun fact, Pol Pot had a Chinese grandparent even though he ordered the ethnic cleansing of Chinese in Cambodia.
Chongqing dialect belongs is very closing related to Mandarin ( due to the recent migration of Han Chinese to these regions) . Whereas Cantonese ,min or hakka are very distinct languages Closer to the language spoken during the Tang Dynasty where as Mandarin is regarded to be a language later un History.( Tang poem sound better ( the flow)with Cantonese or Hakka than mandarin)
I once read that the many diverse groups that make China see themselves primarily as “Chinese” despite being from different ethnic/linguistic groups because they see themselves as originating from the same civilization, sharing a common history. Their definition of nationality is different from how the term is used in the west with respect to European nation-states. Imagine if all former territories of the former Roman Empire saw themselves primarily as “Romans”.
1:33 it's pronounced You-oe not You. In Vietnamese it means Viet. The reason why that dialect is called Yue is that there were ancient tribes call Yue in the South of China, some were assimilated by the Han Chinese (modern-day Southern Chinese), some were not and migrated to the South to become modern-day Vietnamese, Thai and Laotian.
@@EricChien95 the one for cantonese is a borrowed character that deliberately replaced one resembling the character 越, so they were originally the same. You can look it up on Wiktionary, one of the meanings of 粤 is 越
Kudos, Masaman, on another well-done and well-researched video! 'Tis fascinating to see how many groups there who live in borderlands of China who are related to other peoples in neighbouring countries. There are, also, ethnic minorities, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus which founded dynasties that ruled over part or all of China in the past.
In Bangladesh, there has a proverb that, after about 10 miles, accent & cuisine changes inevitably .(cz,population dense) Now i am thinking, how much sort of accent & culture could be in china as a gigantic country . Btw, this video is amazing.
dudewhyfi I seriously doubt it, I can't be able to identify whether a man is Manchu or Han, even though I am Chinese. Other ethnicities like Tibetan and Mongolian are quite different in terms of appearance.
Well, since the 90s we are having a considerable rising of Chinese immigrants in Brazil as well, especially in the Southeast region and especially in São Paulo where I live Some cities like where I live have a considerable Chinese population (both immigrants and descendants), I have even studied with 2 Chinese guys on my senior year Many of them became business owners here, and I'm sure that a lot ppl already went to a store or a restaurant owned by Chinese immigrants here, they are amazing ppl and I really love their food
China consists of 56 ethnic groups, While the United States only recognizes 6. China all the same? Quit wrong perception...China is one of the most diverse country in the world!
You obviously don't know China has thousands of years to assimilate every other cultures into Han. Not to mention this video shows the modern day brainwash/assimilation here: Xinjiang: China, where are my children? ua-cam.com/video/VRS5cdcsUOc/v-deo.html
Technically speaking, the US recognizes 6 races, and only two ethnicities (Hispanic and Non-Hispanic, which can belong to any individual or multiple races). The inclusion of "Middle-Eastern/North African" in the 2020 Census may reveal previously-hidden trends in demographics, as MENA people were historically counted as "White".
The Han ethnic group can be more thought of as a cultural ethnic group that becomes hereditary. The Han ethnicity is more of an identity with cultural ideas tacked on than a traditional ethnicity. And the Han-ification of non-Han people happens all the time, with the most recent and notable example of the Manchu ethnic group being slowly absorbed by the Han people. Which is to say, while the Manchu might not related to the Han, the Manchu are becoming a part of the Han ethnicity because the Manchu people and the Han people around them are beginning to recognize them(selves) as Han.
Yosef Robinson good idea, they are also the the first ethnic minority in China to convert to Christianity. That’s is why Islam is sometimes referred to in China as the hui religion (回教)
@@ellenasura1214 Yeah, from what I've read, Hui do have Arab and Persian as well as Han Chinese ancestors. The Hui certainly have Han Chinese ancestry to a much greater extent than the Uighurs.
Love your videos. 2 comments. Hungarians (aka Magyars) weren't Huns. They were Uralic Ongers or Ugurs (from which the word Ogre comes). Also, the Chinese word Hsiung-nu is pron- Shoo-noo. (and they were possibly related to Turks). Best wishes, Hal Elliott (in Utah).
The wisdom of Emperor Qin, was to have 1 written language. An ethnic group may pronounce a written character differently from another ethnic group. But the written character has the same meaning. In this way every ethnic group can communicate with each other using the same written character. For example the written character for “hand” is pronounced as “show” in Mandarin, “chiu” in Teochew dialect or “shao” in Cantonese. The uniform 1 written language enabled China to be governed for centuries.
I wish that people would actually talk about what the video was actually about. I love hearing different people's experiences and opinions on the subject.
I hear you. I love your videos. It seems like the comment section today is all kids or something just saying stuff like "we were Chinese and shit". It gets the most likes so it's everything that came up first on my phone.
+X5456 YZ shut up.i m Indian I came here bcoz I was confused.few days ago I watch one drama.but actor n actress their features were so different than regular Chinese ppl.she was hui n he was Han.also I was wondering how the heck Muslims entered in China.i was happy that China is not hybrid but after listening this video I m not happy any more.u all r mix like other countries.shame.
I speak multiple Chinese dialect and English. the difficulty level between Han people from different area dialect to understand or learn to understand a new dialect, amounts from a heavy Australian accent to something like french to a english speaker. BUT the big but is: Chinese writing was unified since the birth of the empire. I can write anything to anyone who reads Chinese, does not matter even wecould not under stand each other speaking. even with Japanese we can do the same thing to a less degree, so was Korea and Vietnam if they didn't make up a new writing system in recent history.
I enjoy your vids Masaman….I used to teach at a University in China for Chinese Cultural minorities....some of the more influential Chinese ethic minorities you did not mention would be the 'Miao' people and the 'Tu' people ...keep the great vids comming!
Han isn't based on genetics at all, but cultural. If you travel around China you'll find so much diversity in language, culture, food and varying facial features.
Culturally and anthropologically speaking, China is my most favorite foreign country on Earth. The 56-strong ethnic groups, and their cultural heritage, are absolutely beautiful and fascinating.
You are beautiful and I appreciate your sense of humor. I don't usually comment, but I think you deserve a compliment like this…if I don't mind sending a friend request to Gmail, I'd love to be your friend.
Trying to identify Han in to individuals group can be a messy business, because the writing system is unified and rather consists through out time and region. The dialect is different because language do diversified over time a lot faster than the writing. The most recent example is English. Just in few hundred years of time you already get a language branch out some many forms. So if you picture it at millennium scale, it is not too far of stretched that language has been diversified to a state that they may sound like tow different language. The speed of a language evolve is affected by culture exchange as well. In the recent century especially last one or two decades there are lot of loan words being put in the language, people live in China in the 80 will have a very difficult time to understand what people are talking about despite the fact the pronunciation and grammatical structure remaining unchanged. But change do happens and it happens fast.
Once a Chinese scientist, who was working for WWF , when we discussed the impotence of conservation of environment and diverse languages and cultures of the many different people in China, she said the peoples who called themselves Han once belonged to other groups but now considered as Han, is good for stability of the country.....
Informative and persuasive! Most, if not all, of the so called "Han Chinese" have multiple ancestries depending on the region they have been inhabiting and the indigenous groups with which they have been intermarrying. The Cantonese people, language and culture epitomise this incessant process of Sinicization, during which the indigenous groups, as conquered peoples, were Sinicized by Han conquerors. Therefore, the so-called Han Chinese population is more diverse than a lot of people originally think.
Hey man, great video. Formally, I’m identified as Singaporean (Chinese). I am a 2nd/3rd generation immigrant. Culturally, I identify more with the general Singapore culture while maintaining some of our “Chinese-ness”. Yes, it’s true that the Han Chinese is rather a generic term. In China, Han Chinese are grouped into Northern Chinese and Southern Chinese. My family came from South China and my grandma will refer to our ancestry homeland as Tangsha / Mountain of the Tang (dynasty). Traditionally, we speak Teochew which is different from Cantonese although we are part of the Guangzhou / Canto region.
Thank you so much for this video. I've been asked this question many many times in Europe and every time I need to spend at least one hour explaining this, but some people are still confused or won't believe. This video should be in the textbook in Europe!
I am from Hainan Island, southernmost tropical island of China, most people mistook me for Korean or Japanese in Canada, and girls who favor me are mostly from the SE Asian countries :) Your personal genetic can be quite complicated and have an interesting lineage history along with human migration in the past, you can do a different kind of standard commercial in-mail DNA test kits to find out, never let nationalism and arrogance stop you from finding out more about yourself.
@@dukes1993724 chinese history like the great wall is teached in school but race and ethnicites are another matter. we cannot teach everything in school because there is no time
It's a matter of perspective... Here we have a group of people (the Hans) who choose to look for similarities rather than differences, and built their language and culture that way.
1:37 Actually, the older established enclaves in South East Asia speak Hokkien/Fujianese not Cantonese. I know, because I live in South East Asia and am descended from Fujianese immigrants from South China. Most of the older Chinese folks here speak their native Hokkien, but younger folks are opting to learn Cantonese and Mandarin instead for practical reasons.
Han is a very mysterious race. Some people say that Han is not based on race, but based on cultural. In my opinion, Han is not even based on cultural, it is just a self-identification: if you think you are Han, then you are, irrespective of your race, language, and even cultural.
@Martin Beck , of couse, what's your sir name???? where 's your family root ? No records? We have our even tracable thousands of years origin of a family name/line.
The term 'Han Chinese' is similar to the term 'Arab' - it's a Cultural Super-Ethnicity rather than a Homogenous One. The Han, like the Arabs, have absorbed many different groups into their Culture and Identity - so that within a couple of generations, their non-Han origins are either forgotten or hidden. The difference between the Southern Chinese of Guandong and the Vietnamese of Hanoi is not genetic, they are actually genetically similar and have a shared history, but the difference is that the Chinese of Guandong chose or allowed themselves to be absorbed into the Han Nation - the Vietnamese didn't.
Arab doesn't descend from one ancestor, just an amalgamation of different people under Arab empire. Han descends from one ancestor, that's why didn't fragment over time. Diversity came from matrilineage, as Han absorbed other tribes. South Chinese in Guangdong are Sinitic. Vietnamese are Austro-Asiatic native to Red River Delta in Vietnam. Both are different origin, genetics and language. Just that Vietnam got annexed into Nanyue and adopted the name. But hundred Yue is a collective for diverse ethnic groups, most of whom are today's minority like Zhuang in Guangxi. These people didn't assimilate into Han, still kept their identity. Difference between Guangdong and Vietnam is obvious. VMese shorter with smaller frame; smaller skull with lower face line; deeper rounder eyes, defined double lids.
I think you are missing Tai- Kadai ethic group in Yunan, China. Theravada Buddhism is the most common in Xishuangbanna(Sipsongpanna). They still celebrate water festival( Songkran New Year) same as other Tai-Kadai groups.
It occurred to me recently that every region that was not traditionally ruled by christity has many different religions coexisting in the same space. Roman empire too was a home for many different religions until Christianity took over. Imagine if pagans and wiccans still existed in Europe, or if Incan or Mayan religions existed in Americas.
the whole switch to christianity by emperor constantine was to consolidate his absolute power. Borrowing the established religion and doctrines from christians, he can now put out a standardized "code of conduct" for citizens to follow. That's the whole point of the "Roman Catholic", they were not the only christians at the time, but a inseperable trait identity for roman citizens. "We are the great cultured romans who followed the holy way, others are barbarians and heretics". Rome could not contain itself through conquest and military power, as the western empire fell, the only thing byzantium could do was well... spread their influence through religion. Did china have similar thing that happened? Yes! but instead of religion, first 2500 years ago through schools of thoughts, to later communism. China was united by philosophy and not religion.... which really aren't that much different.
Native Chinese, and I am really proud of the diversity here in China. My classmates have different cultures and traditions from me, and every time we come back to school from home, we show sth different to others. That's fascinating. Plus I never judge others by region or religion.
I found at least two photos that the police suppress its citizens are not Chinese police or Chinese citizens. They were from Nepal or other south east Asia countries.
My grandfather speaks Cantonese and my grandmother speaks Hakka. How they got married is beyond me, but both lived in Hawaii so they must have used pidgin English.
I think it is more easy for people to understand being Chinese if you consider "Han" (Hua Ren) is somewhat akin to being "European" as an umbrella group but further down the evolutionary proccess given age and history thereby slightly more homogenous. The languages between the different Han groups have similarity but like in the case of Hokkien can be VERY different and closer in some respects to Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese. This is because of Fujian province's general isolation because of mountains and its exposure toward the seas. BUT it should also be noted that both Teochews and Kokkiens often refer to themsleves as "Tng nang" which means Tang people. The language has indeed many relations to the last big cultural influencer of the province the 'Open' Tang dynasty which is where you also find a number of influences to Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese languages. As to these languages amongst the Han, I often wondered why they are even labelled as dialects. Indeed Cantonese have some mutually intelligable words but is no less different than say Spanish from Italian, in its relation to Mandarin. I think there needs to be a serious rethink of what constitutue a "Chinese". To me when people in China say "Zhong guo ren", they are referring to all other ethnic groups within the union inclusive of Han and minorities. Its akin to being a Roman citizen. When they say ""Han Ren" its like saying "european' bc there is enough diversification within the various (particularly Southern) dialect groups to constitute them as languages. Within Mandarin, there are regional difference more akin to "dialect". European Linguist have done a disservice IMO by erroneous classification of what could constitute as language into 'dialect' labelling. Aside form that, when you look at say, Europe, it has plenty of churches mainly Catholic or Protestants. To the outsider, one Cathedral or church resembles more or less another. Its the same in China with Buddisht or Taoist temples. Maybe Europe has preserved better its historical structures many being made of more durable material than traditional Chinese structures (aside from Great Wall etc) but we should also remember many of central european historical buildings were indeed rebuilt brick by brick since world war 2. When China gets more affluent (if not it may already be happening), I expect it will do the same albeit whether they will pay as stringent detail to historical accuracy in the 'recreations' remains to be seen. The other aspect that sets aside Han Chinese historically of course is food. Nothern China is wheat based where SOuthern China is rice base culture and it co-relates to the food culture. Anyone who knows Chinese people will readily realise how important food is in Chinese culture and there are so many regional differences. In observing China I think it is important to see the differences from Chinese eyes and not traditional european lenses. And food is an aspect given short shrift where it may have as much significance if not more as say wine and beer drinking separation in europa. It vene permeates to some extent the thinking. I often like the anecdote shared on how Northern Chinese, Central(Shanghai) Chinese and Southerners would react when meeting an Alien from outer space. The Northerners they say would like to study it, the Central Chinese would prefer to do business with it and the Southerners would like to find a way to eat it. Food for thought but that may be for a somewhat different discussion.
FYI @masaman i thoroughly enjoy your videos but just to clarify i saw you posted a picture of Alberto fujimori former president of Peru ( Japanese ancestry ) when talking about the Chinese community in Peru. Again Fujimori is not of Chinese ancestry. I appreciate your videos and thank for the amazing work you do
Thank you for the video. It sure was very informative . Nonetheless, when talking about the significant presence of Chinese in Latin American countries (Mexico and Peru the most exemplary), you included the photograph of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (a mistake). The population would refer to him as "el Chinito", ' The Chinese Guy' --with the ending -ito giving it a sense of endearment. Yet, he is of Japanese ancestors, not Chinese. I appreciate your informative video and look forward to watching your other ones , as well. Thank you.
You are beautiful and I appreciate your sense of humor. I don't usually comment, but I think you deserve a compliment like this…if I don't mind sending a friend request to Gmail, I'd love to be your friend.
@@niamtxiv : Yes, and that is because the East coastal cities were like Canton.. and when the foreign countries wanted to trade, and then this caused indirect fighting within the mainland, the chinese governing officials at that time, only reduced the number of ports where these ships could dock. One of them is Canton. So yes.. most migrants in other chinatowns, or "coolies" as we say, were slave labourers on those ships... and therefore were Cantonese people. From Canton. But these families also became rich much later on, and therefore brought wealth back to their own hometowns. So no... it is not true that Hans chinese were poor then. Cos those Hans chinese worked abroad, and made themselves wealthy. It is this kind of indirect link now.. forcing the other mongolians, and manchus, to get subsidies, but mostly based on taxes collected from Hans chinese most probably ! This is why some Hans chinese are annoyed and ANGRY.
The boundaries between groups / regions of different ethics are blurred because of mixed marriages from migrations from north to south and from east to west for centuries. It is a mistake to based the separation of ethics still exists because of local dialects speaking languages. Han is all of those no longer obvious.
Ian Ho hello guy，I do not think you really know what I wanna express. l agree it is a good video to introduce China for the foreign people. I just sick of the people who haven't been to China but alway made some terrible comments on China. I think you have seen many commtents like that under this video.
That is the territory of the Qing Dynasty, including present-day East Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, the Far East of Russia, Taiwan, Northeast India, northern Myanmar, and Taiwan. It is not an idea, it did exist, and various countries divided Chinese territory during China's weakest period
Can you make a video about the Dutch sailors in the 16th century that landed in Korea and left descendents? I myself could be a descendent because my DNA test shows a trace amount of European.
I love your videos Masaman, but in this video you made a mistake when you mention the Chinese in Peru and you showed a pic of the former president Fujimori, he was of Japanese ancestry (and even had the Japanese nationality). Maybe you can add a caption just to acknowledge this. Thanks.
I've always thought of "Han" as being similar to "Roman". By the end of the Roman Empire, a great many different people all over the Mediterranean identified as Roman and spoke Latin. China had an extra thousand years of centralized government and so has more linguistic and cultural uniformity in an area that may have been more diverse in the past.
HansLemurson you r right. Han dynasty in East Asia is just like Rome in Europe.
They had the advantage of isolation too
Vietnamese also know as kinh people they are Han Chinese everywhere , they stolen land from Montagnard Jarai, Ede .... tribe Malayo, Polynesian austronesian in Central highland today , we facing discrimination by Vietnamese , vN government
@Griffith Taka china encompasses all dynasties since huangdi,and that took thousands of years.
Actually, There is a theory, the ancient Chinese also think the roman is like Chinese, thus, they use their ancient dynasty 's name to address Roman. Although there thousands years and miles between you and ancient Chinese, What you think is consistent with the ancient people,
Europeans are not the same
Chinese are not the same
Indians are not the same
Africans are not the same.
+thepurple dolphin
put a Swedish and Spanish women together,,u can figure them out quickly
+thepurple dolphin
come on...man.... Spanish used to be mixed with Arabs..
+thepurple dolphin
anyway...lady or gentleman.. let's say this...
nowadays are really tough
all race are about the bucks
you rarely see a Spaniard with blond hair. Swedes with blond hair is extremely common
Jane E but looks do define physical traits and it’s obvious the Mediterraneans look different than nordics.
I accidentally found myself in the good part of the internet. Not bad.
shut up dumbass, whoops, I just made it slightly average
Jeffrey Harrison lol
Егор Кощее lmfaooo
no，you don't
Yes
Northern Europeans/Scandinavians have mostly blonde hair blue eyes, while most southern Europeans/Spaniards, Italians have dark hair, dark color eyes. Most Northern Chinese and southern Chinese do not have same features, northern Chinese generally taller, lighter skin complexion. Because of the diversity of Chinese culture, that makes China a fascinating country, variety of Chinese food, traditions, fashions, fruits, just to name a few.
i can die already, i've seen a chinese blonde guy with blue eyes. I've seen it all with this haha
@@machinegun2282 don't be surprised there are blonde hair blue eyes Chinese, there are many Caucasian Oriental mix at the Chinese border of Russia and also Turkey.
@@dragondescendant1 yeah genes do travel,
China is simply a group of 7 countries 😂😂😂
@Chidori457 you just said it yourself Southern Spaniards are darker.
My Chinese History professor, Dr. James Gao, explained that as different ethnic kingdoms were conquered by Imperial forces that they were culturally assimilated into the Han ethnicity by decree. This allowed conquered peoples to share in the benefits of core membership in the dominant civilization. There was always a little time (in some cases centuries) in which the assimilated people carried some memory of their pre-Han identity (Dr. Gao described himself as Mongolian Chinese), but because of the consistency of Chinese authority and the prestige of Chinese civilization those identities eventually faded away.
I also think that the ideographic nature of the Chinese writing script had a lot to do with the integrity of the Chinese identity. The Chinese written system of stylized pictographic characters was standardized across the empire during the Chin Dynasty in the 3rd century BC (and again by Mao Zedong in the 20th century). This meant that even people who couldn't communicate verbally with each other because of dialectic differences between regions could nonetheless correspond with each other. This meant that the educated classes shared literature and were able to accept governance without the need for translation even if they didn't speak Mandarin.
Another strong factor was the civil service examination regime. While dubiously relevant and frequently corrupted the presence of such an empire-wide egalitarian instrument for access to the imperial power base gave people within the provincial educated classes a feeling of inclusiveness in the civilization. Also, the regular rotation of provincial leadership incentivized the governors and magistrates to promote a sense of similarity between their carpet-bagging selves and their local subjects while at the same time discouraging the establishment of long term local power bases based on ethnocentric commonalities. Unfortunately the emperors often had no such luck with regard to the personality cults of their field commanders.
Manchus were racist towards Chinese. That's why most Hans had to wear a queue and a shaved head, while the ethnic Manchu could have facial hair and did not have to shave his head.
The Manchu emperors were afraid of their Chinese subjects and tried to make the Chinese assimilate into Manchurian culture. They ran into two problems: the size of Cultural China and the resilience of Institutional China. If the Mongols couldn't do it, the Manchus didn't have a prayer.
Alan Friesen Which University does your professor works?
I don't know if he's still there but I studied under Dr. Gao at the University of Maryland. I think there's a good chance that he has retired by now.
Basically China is a united version of Europe and middle east.
The label "Han" is slightly odd.
Using myself as an example, my father is of Hakka descent, a subgroup of the Han, and my mother's family are from Guangxi, again Han. Our family speaks mostly Cantonese between relatives. We have not been formally taught Mandarin, but the grammar and and vocabulary is almost identical so we can still understand quite a bit without any formal learning. We share similar customs, history, traditions, myths, festivals, and beliefs with a majority other Han people. In effect, we as a people have not really changed much over thousands of years as invaders have simply been absorbed with little to no influence on our cultural identity.
In contrast to the UK where I'm born, the Irish, Scottish and English may have intersected during their tumultuous history, disagree over different sects of the same religion, and use English to communicate, but they have their own distinct native languages and identity. So even if everyone is called "British", the ethnic differences are very clear.
The Han concept can be said to be a nation. Han is taken from the Han dynasty, the people who were ruled during the Han dynasty had the same culture, in the Qing dynasty era (Qing conquered other nations/states) which in general had a different culture from the Han.
uygur, mongol, tibetan, manchu actually they are very different (but now manchu have assimilated into han)
I am also a Hakka from Indonesia, here we are also not taught to speak Mandarin. the community, hakka, hokkien, tiochiu speak their respective dielek.
we don't call ourselves han people but Tang (I also don't know where it came from maybe the Tang dynasty)
Hakka :TONG Ngin
Hokkien: Teng lang
Mandarin: Tang ren
If Han becomes a single country and rebuilds its dynasty, it is clear that Hakka, Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghainese, Beijing are tribes, not sub-tribes (no tibetan, mongol, manchu etc)
@@jokerxback2633 We call our Chinatowns in the UK 唐人街 ("Tang people street"). 😃We name ourselves after our greatest dynasties. Also the Tang dynasty was the most metropolitan and culturally accepting era. The Silk Road enabled exchange of peoples, goods and cultures. It wasn't until the Qing (non-Han dynasty) when China became closed off to the outside world and started to decline.
@@jvp9703 wow i think we are all the same as descendants still call ourselves Tang people, I don't know on the mainland call it Han, but this concept I understand better the term Han/Tang
Well there are differences between north vs south han ppl, due to genetic mixing of south han with southern ethnic groups, and north han with northern ethnic groups.
The original Han ppl started in the henan/shandong area, which is central north China.
The unifying thing is common written language the different dialects could be argued as different languages in modern linguistics, for example in north west china where i was born the local dialect would be intelligible to ppl from else where, the dialect has borrowed words and pronunciations from the various north western nomadic groups such as tibetan, mongolian, etc.
Also not many ppl know is that mandarin is a modern invention to simplify communication between people of different provinces.
Valuable information. Big up!
Knowledgia n
Knowledgia @9:04 bread/butter/sauce/bacon/ butter/ bread....lol.
a lot of wrong information.
A lot of misunderstanding and wrong information there.
9:47 Fujimori, whose photo you chose to represent Chinese diaspora in Peru, was ethnically Japanese, not Chinese.
Both Japanese and Chinese are Asians
You used a stock photo of Alberto Fujimori as an example of Chinese living aboad in Peru - he's Japanese.
She might have come from within current borders of china but she is definetely not an ethnic chinese.much probably she is an uyghur.if not, then she is from Kazakh or Kyrgyz minority.if still not, then from sari uyghurs somewhere in Ordos region, in the east.. How do I know? her eye color and hair color speaks to me.
The difference between Masaman's content and comments is impressive.
astounding really. The nuance, research, and thought that goes into these videos only for a bunch of "edgy" kids to flood the comments with the same old "we wuz kangz n sheeiiittt" every time.
it's really annoying, you'd expect at least SOME thoughtful discussions but you can't even find them.
swedge
I wish knowledgeable people only would comment
swedge I like Chinese.
Swedge
indeed.... but sometimes (rarely), in the comments, a knowledgeable comment pops out
So much hate folks. It's bad for your health, literally. I'll just say this......people didn't grow from the dirt and create what we know the world as today. They "migrated"
Reggie Noble well technically one man was made from dirt, Adam 😀
Adam?His name was Tane.
+Reggie Noble Don't waste your breath, Reggie. Hating chinese is the norm now. Right wingers do it, left wingers do it. Everyone does it. Hypocritical arguments apply only to the chinese, but not to their own far more atrocious actions to the native north americans, armenians, kurds, northeast indians, kashmiris. Bah, non-chinese just suck balls.
@Reggie Noble: As a matter of fact, on the long term, in any part of the world and up to present day, migration has always been the exception and not the rule. Otherwise there would have been no chance for so many diverse cultures, languages and dialects to develop.
no no Europeans did come from Africa. As did all races. Pick up a biology book and study evolution.
I am from North east India and I belong to Garo/A'chik tribe. We have an oral tradition that we immigrate from Tibet to present day North east indian states of Meghalaya (in search of agricultural lands) long time ago. And yes, we are 100% different from Mainland Indians. Our words sounds more like little bit Chinese like , south east asia and Tibet.
I am from middle of India, and we are also different from North South Indians
I am from north of India. My language is also different from South and East of India and west of India. I also look different than South East and west India
im from South India Kerala my Language =Tamil+Telugu
@@ChandranPrema123 what ?
@@ChandranPrema123 Not really 😂😂😂 Malayalam is a hybrid language that has loan words from old Tamil, sanskrit, Portugese, Dutch, Arabic and Persian. Surprising it has nothing to do with Telugu.
Actually Han is a little more complicated than being a simple ethnicity like Sami or Mongolian. It is an admixture of various ethnicities and there is an ethnic gradient depending on where you are. It is like the modern British are a mix of Norman, Angles, Vikings, Celts etc. As you correctly noted, there are even physical differences not only between northern and southern Chinese, but even subtle differences between Cantonese and say Fujianese Hakka etc. Not only are the languages/dialects different, but even the customs, cuisine etc are different.The difference between neigbouring "dialects" like Cantonese and Fujianese are as different as Spanish from Italian, or Dutch from German.
Depends on what parts of Han China you're talking about.
Jane E Southern Han and Northern Han have different appearance bcuz Han ethnic was patrilineal inheritance in acient time. When Han ethnic conquered others, it get a various of foreign maternal gene. (Males? Died out.)
Han ethnic share 80% Y-chromosome similarity, which is the most pure in the world. But in Mitochondrial gene, only 30%.
That's why Han from different area have different appearance. Bcuz historically, most of Han people have a Han father but a non-Han mother.
Especially near the borderland. Bcuz Han kept expanding (conquering), it will be a lot of generations were gave birth by non-Han mother. So Han have enough diversification. But as a ethinic, it's most pure.
Even many ethnics in China are almost genetical Han. e.g.Nowadays Manchu share 60% Y-chromosome similarity with Han. And with the stupid ethnics policy (Minority preference), patrilineal inheritance were destroyed, now if one of the parents is non-Han, the children will be definitly non-Han. So those minority ethnics will soon be fulfilled with Han gene after several generations. But Han ethnic will stay pure.
the blonde hair and blue eyes people is chinese.but they are not han chinese.and 98%han chinese is not
Buddhist.
Jane E Never have come to China's retardation is also a weak intelligence that has not studied the human molecular science and Chinese history
keff Never have come to China's retardation is also a weak intelligence that has not studied the human molecular science and Chinese history
5:14 lmao even the kid can't believe he's seeing a chinese jew
Santiago Barrios He must be the only chinese jew he has ever seen.
I'm still waiting for the Native American Jews to appear.
that picture is worth a thousand words
Up until the 1900s, there were thounsands of Chinese Jews concentrated in one region. Then communism wrecked all the religions and cultures. Many Chinese jews said fk it, and blended into the Han Chinese. Then decades later, today, many are discovering their hertiage and going back to Israel.
ARVIN
They have no heritage linked to the real Israelites. They are just Chinese people who converted to Judaism !
Fact: The homeland of Mongols is actually considered to be within the Inner Mongolia.
Too bad they are losing their culture and got outnumbered by Han colonists.
@@samuelfanning6598 fuck off
@@Mike-ve6wr Uh huh
@@samuelfanning6598 They're not losing their culture lol.
@警官 - K Right, because preserving a writing system compensates for being colonized by Han people, becoming a minority in their own land, and having little to no effort for cultural preservation or spread, while Mongolia is subsidizing Mongolian bands who are becoming famous worldwide for their music and traditional style.
Also, the Mongol language is in decline in China, not in Mongolia.
Hi, Massaman, here's a fun fact about the "Caucasian" ancestry in modern Uyghur population. In a simple way to say, is that modern Uyghurs are basically half east asian, half white. But to be more specific, is that the Old Uyghurs mixed with Tocharians, plus various Persian/Arabic populations.
Their Turkic ancestors, also known as Uyghurs (but back then they were fully-east asian nomadic people living in Mongolian Steppe) moved to South to the modern day Xinjiang region around 7-8th century after the defeat of the Uyghur Khaganate. At Xinjiang, they encountered the native Indo-European people known as Tocharians, whose language is classified as a dead Indo-European language. Tocharians are genetically categorized as Caucasian, and they were the only group of Indo-Europeans who migrated to East the furthest during the 3rd-4th millennium BCE. After a few centuries of intermarriage and admixture between Uyghurs and Tocharians, the Tocharian language went extinct and they were Turkified, but their genes have passed down to every Uyghur generation. With the trading from silk road, there came many Arabic and Persian traders to Xinjiang, and further mixed with the local Uyghurs. In general, Uyghurs and many other Turkic peoples are very diverse.
A quick side note here: the Hui Chinese, the only muslim population who resemble to Han Chinese also formed their identity during the silk road trading period. According to the Molecular Anthropological genetic report, around 1/4 of the genes of the Hui population in North-western China are tested as West Asian (Middle Eastern/Persian). They are basically the descendants of Muslim traders who intermarried with local Han Chinese. However, they are partially Sinicized as they lost their original languages and today they speak mainly Mandarin Chinese. But fortunately their religion is preserved, and in daily life they still use some Persian-origined religious vocabulary, like "Xuda - God", "Asman - sky", "Nemaz - praying" etc.
I like your videos, and I wish you could make more videos about Central Asians in the future, as it is one of the most genetically diverse places with its unique and fascinating history in the world.
Patrick Lee, Which is why you can see the Persian influence in modern Uyghur culture and let's not forget their celebration of Nowruz too an Iranian holiday. You a Turk? At least you know that Uyghur came from the Mongolia Steppe after the Kyrgyz another Turkic group driven them out and force them to Xinjiang and towards the Tarim Basin. Uyghur were buddhist and believe in other religion before they were fully absorbed by Islam. Today you can see Uyghur who look fully East Asian in appearance, those that look full West Asian and those that have an admixture of both which makes them some of the most interesting people in China. Ancient Uyghur script is still use by Inner Mongolia while todays Uyghur adopted the Persian script.
UYGHURS ARE TURKIC(EURASIAN) PEOPLE!!!!!
supratrd900 Yes, it's exactly what you said. Nowruz is celebrated throughout Central Asia, but the custom is different depending on various places. My great-grandmother was a Kyrgyz from Kazakhstan, so I'm partially a Turkic person. I mainly focus on Uyghur and Kazakh history and their languages.
The Uighurs simply abandoned Mongolian they controlled. By the 7th century, the Tarim basin was already Turkic. Uighurs lived between Altay Mountain and Lopnur lake during the 3-6 century before they emerged as an Empire basing in Mongolia today. Tarim basin was conquered when Uighurs defeated Tibetans. Why people always tried to say Uighurs from Mongolia while completely ignoring Tarim Basin was a part of their empire?
Recent genetic studies put West Eurasian admixture in Hui people as only 10%.
I had a professor who specialized on China and he told me that Han was basically the label given to people seen as "Chinese" but doesn't actually mean much beyond an administrative term.
@TK斷屌群衆 傻逼,汉族只是是一个名称而已不懂别瞎几把bb
"T'aoist," is pronounced dow-ist. That t-apostrophe is Wade-Giles transliteration of the original; "taow" is not totally wrong, it's just not quite right, and "dow" is closer.
I think for it to sound like D, you have to drop the apostrophe. T' would sound like t.
I am an ethnic Miao/Hmong from China. I get mistaken for Han, but I speak own native language, have different traditions, primarily animist and don't really celebrate the typical Han Chinese festivals.
niam txiv you sounded you rescind Chinese why? so do you consider you are Chinese ?
niam txiv 苗族不过春节中秋?头一次听说
苗族不过农历新年？？
但是苗族向来都蛮弱的 文化也不发达 自古以来在中国越南老挝泰国都是最贫穷的民族之一 人口那么多可是从来都没有独立建国过也没自己的宗教。反观其他宗族有白族曾建立过大理国，还有强大的吐蕃....
You Hmongs are really tenacious people survived in the middle of China. I know you are completely different from Chinese. Most of the people in China have been assimilated into Han Chinese. Long live Hmongs I hope you have own country one day.
The Zhuang people have various dialects, they're pretty different, you can find a video where some Thai people go to Guangxi and try to communicate using Thai-Zhuang, they're successful in one part of town and not so much in another part of the same town! I read that the Zhuang language is more similar to Lao and northern Thai dialects.
they dont call it the middle kingdom for nothing
"Thai versus zhuang"in youtube.You can't really dispute what you see on the video, and there is a lot to be learned from that,
It surprised me a lot.When we found out and also ancient Thai people had DNA associated with northern Chinese people. (Thai ancient people are half Chinese). The latest information on ancient DNA ... Prof. Dr. Viphu also took a sample of ancient DNA in Pangmapha District, Mae Hong Son Province, 1,600-1,800 years old found that Pangmapha DNA has a 50% genetic ratio from northern China. This information goes into Thaipbs' UA-cam's topic of DNA, ancient people, cave-in.
When you hear that Muay Thai originated in China, don't be surprised. It's not that Chinese people are bragging, Guangxi has a similar ethnic group that has been inheriting the same culture.
The History of the Thai Chinese (Part 1) | The China History Podcast | Ep. 259
Good intro to the ethno-demographics of China. Living here for a couple of years, I've noticed that the Han Chinese often include many assimilated peoples. For eg. Most of the top surnames were royal last names at some point in time. These names were often given to minorities within China who have been assimilated in various ways. Some of the top names like Zhang (archer) or Ma (could be from Chinese for horse, or Mohammad) were assigned to ethnic Chinese vassals.
There are many reasons why minorities for the last couple thousand years assumed Han ethnicity and over time, their native cultures were largely lost. I've met many northerners who admit to being partly Mongol or Manchu though they are only Han on paper; conversely many southerners are Austronesian, Vietnamese, or Thai and others, but are Han on paper, even if they have a last name that was assigned to ethnic people in ancient times (eg. Pan, Fan, Lin etc.).
Thank u 4 recognizing that Africa is VERY DIVERSE!
Yea it's definitely a very diverse place. From very darkskinned nilotes to yellowishbrown bushmen.
@@YajuSenpai11451 that's racist
Yaju Senpai Kinda ironic since your people (the Mongoloid race) came from the Khoisan bushmen of Africa. I thought Japanese were smart? Next time research human evolution before going on the internet saying racist shit. Fucking moron.
yet black Americans claim that they have build the pyramids
Yaju Senpai you are just as dumb as the ones who claim all whites are the same
When you talked about Chinese communities in Peru the man in the image was actually the former president/dictator Alberto Fujimori, who in spite of been called "El Chino" (The Chinaman) was actually of Japanese descent. Other than that this video was great.
BTW, you should look into the history of the Japanese people in Peru that I find extremely interesting, they arrived to Peru very poor but they worked hard and rose up in the social ladder until a point when they became part of the traditionally white-derived oligarchy.
During WWII, some Japanese-Peruvians were sent to American prison camps but eventually they returned to Peru and -again- they prospered.
Some people say Japanese became resented by the White-derived Peruvian oligarchy because they managed to outperform the oligarchs, which explain why the (White or mixed-White) Peruvian president during WWII offered to hand over many Japanese-Peruvian citizens even though the Americans never really made such request.
Japanese-Peruvians became very admired by poor Peruvians since they earned the reputation of been hard working and smart people who rose to the top from the very bottom, that played a major role in the election of Fujimori.
Name Fujimori itself is an obvious Japanese name
@@changwenliang7929 Fujimori is a corrupt President
Trimeresurus Albolabris Insularis name one president on earth who isn’t corrupt
The picture he used at 3:48 is also obviously Japanese architecture
Han(汉) originally means the Galaxy in Chinese language. The Han is actually a fusion of various small ethnic groups, like the stars converge to form the Galaxy.
I dont know about everyone else, but i love this comment section. Its never boring.
Actually all chinese are not the same, only some ignorant people think like that.
There are many mongolic, tungusic, turkic people living in china and all of them despite being asian look different than han chinese.
All asians dont look a like, thats a myth, asians differ from each other more than african look a like.
Korean, japanese, chinese, mongolian people - I can all seperate them by their faces.
黃志勇 lol wth. what do you mean by "turanist"?
no you can't seprate chinese korean and japanese so easily
Tulpar Kül Tigin Tengrikut I agree. Even though this may seem irrelevant but I would also like to add too that many people believe Chinese, Koreans and Japanese look the same but to a degree, not really. The Japanese mixed with different tribes of people such as Ainu, Jomon and Yaoi from my knowledge. The Yaoi’s originated from Korea and is the reason why Koreans and Japanese share similar genetics and features. The Chinese are mixed all kinds of tribes (I’m a bit unsure which ones though lol.) Not to mention your environment plays a huge role in your appearance. Even your diet makes for small changes. I believe if people did research on this then everyone would be a little more educated on East Asia and not ignorantly group them all together and say they’re all the same.
@@xmanoo True...it is impossible to distinguish between Asians in any country. Remember, Japanese and Korean descended from China.
Sy Tac Loc no，you shut up.I said chinese japanese and korean，not asian.
When I was in South China, I realized many of them were small frame in size and very few of them were even tall or fat.
Then I was curious as to why, and an uncle of mine told me that for majority part of China’s history, the southerners were primarily farmers due to their prosperous
land and climate, and were also scholars as the southern part of China were fortunate enough to have mountains surrounding them which made invasion tough and tedious for any invaders.
Whereas for the northern part of China, there were many conflicts and wars due to the sharing boarders with Mongolians, Russians and Middle Eastern. Through centuries of external and internal conflicts, made the northerners taller and bigger in size as compared to the southerners.
china and russia had not had alot of war. Chinas majority of war was against Korean ancient kingdoms. Also tibets mongols manchurian... Also on the modern almost every war against foreign was Japanese
The saying went that "The mountains are high and the emperor is a long way away" but today there are giant bridges across the ravines between the mountains and long tunnels through the mountains and high speed trains running across the bridges and through the tunnels, and so the emperor is no longer so far away.
But the southern Chinese are original Hans in North who exiled from wars and conflicts between Mongolians
@@jackytang3683 笑死了，南方人（两广）跟东南亚劣等马来混了太多的血，北方汉人更接近原始汉人
I was born in the south yet taller than everyone in my class (at least when I still lived in China). So... am I a rare exception/mutant?
9:47 Alberto Fujimori is a Peruvian of Japanese descent.
Han Keat Lim exactly...and some think theyre indigenous to peru $5 indians
Hi this is DJ INKAST here once more, it is said by one holy Muslim man that after a while we will all be mix and I think this is a good thing as we're all meant to be coming from the same 2 original male and female. By nature humans are very hostile and I hope this will bring more love between us even though a lot of the groups that are hostile against each other are clearly closely related.
I actually spent a little over a month with one of these groups called the Yi people. They were amazing and culturally distinct people. With their own independent writings system and language as well as faith and traditions. I miss them everyday.
My mom's haploid group is from an ancient animist Island folk that were the ancestors of Yi. My dad's part manchurian. My 23andMe results say I'm 1 percent Anatolian and 99th percentile neanderthal.
I am a Korean nationality, born in northeast China and living in northeast China for 30 years. I know my country's politics, economy, history, and humanities well. although I am not a professional scholar, I can sort out the fragmentary memories accumulated in my long experience as a whole.
Many people are willing to treat the Han nationality differently from ethnic minorities, believing that the Han nationality is the Han nationality and other ethnic groups are other ethnic groups. This view is not only believed by foreigners, but also by many Han people and other ethnic minorities. Once such topics are discussed too deeply, almost all Han people will be shy about not knowing whether they are not confident about the formation of their own nation or whether they will let a minority say that their history makes Han people uncomfortable. What I want to say here is my opinion. it does not represent other people, any region or any organization.
族谱可以追溯到至少上千年的历史，知道来源没什么不自信的
Alberto Fujimori is not Chinese. He's Japanese. Peru had lots of Japanese and Chinese migration
In terms of nationality, Fujimori is Japanese because of parental heritage.
In terms of ethnicity, the Japanese is racially linked to the Chinese.
( Confirmed by recent archaeological evidence, the Japanese Emperor has ancestral origin from China. ) Please google the research info.
alberto Fujimori is a Korean ethnic Japanese citizen who was born in japan and lied as if he was born in peru, but he had Japanese citizenship at all times which is not acceptable both for japan and peru laws.btw Japanese are originally first Chinese and second guryeo ,baekja silla and gaya ethnics entered to the islands via Korean peninsula and Kyushu ,..
Haha its obvious in his surename... sounds like a Japanese
@Aline Cardoso in numbers but not as percentage of population
Again, Great Video! Loved it!
Very informative video ! Except for minor inaccuracy regarding ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori who is of Japanese ancestry indeed,the content and narratives of this video about China's ethnic mix are scholarly done. Thanks a lot and more success to your personal & professional endeavors!
I agree China is a very diverse country and there are common associated patterns on how northern versus southern Chinese people tend to look like. But My grandpa was an anomaly and so was my grandma. Both southern Chinese from Kaiping but opposites in appearance. My grandpa was apparently 6 feet tall. Unusual for a southern Chinese person. My grandma... although she was short at 5 feet, she had physical appearance closer to northern Chinese, smaller nose, monolids and pale skin. My grandpa had more typical southern Chinese face (tan, larger eyes and broader nose), it was just his stature that set him apart.
Historically there are various mass migration from North to South.
product of imperialist of han chinese.. wants to assimilate other ethnic group through conquest, genocide and rape their women.
Thanks for uploading this video. People outside of China need to learn more about the population geography of China. Most westerners don’t even know China has 56 major ethnics. Han is just the one of the 56.
Yeah especially Americans who always sees China as a "single race country single language country" you can thank Hollywood who always portrays China as a "one race country" also many of my friends don't understand what i mean China is diversed, they were all like, "were are the Africans? where are the Latinos? the Pakistanis or Iranians eeh? yo man these people don't come to China it is Chinese who comes to them"
The problem is Westerners only see China through out the media and they also only visits the big cities where only Han Chinese lives, well that is also because 92% of China is Han Chinese and they control the media and the military.
product of imperialist of han chinese.. want to assimilate other ethnic group thru conquest and genocide.
When the call to register ethnic minorities came in 1959 over 180 groups applied. A few decades later only 55 had made the cut, the rest were lumped together as the 'Han', despite their differing languages (200 languages and hundreds more dialects), dress, looks, histories, cultural traditions and DNA. Insofar as they were citybuilding and farming, and without their own country across the border, included them into the fold (for example if Vietnam was still part of China most of the the Vietnamese would probably have been termed as one of the 'Han').
In short China has about 300 languages and 200 ethnic groups, more so than Europe. Even with the Han distinction, China's diversity index is still on a par with the US - 2/3 of its territory ruled by non Han and, the entire country with very high lingusitic and religious diversity. China is a an empire, of hundreds of conquested nations and peoples.
What happened in 1959 ??? And yes, why were there like 180 "applied" ????!! What do you mean 55/56 "applied" ? You cannot actually erase an actual DNA... Either you are a race, or you are not. Different dialects were more like, some odd sounds... When ROC was in power, they grouped only 5 major races... (only because they were)... I think you are talking more like "clans".... i.e. small groups of family-trees.
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Chongqing is rather different from Standard Beijing. Also, talking to Chinese speakers, they even say that Cantonese is completely foreign to them. Also fun fact, Pol Pot had a Chinese grandparent even though he ordered the ethnic cleansing of Chinese in Cambodia.
Ghawk Pol pot was also 75% Cambodian and he ordered millions of Cambodians to their deaths
Chongqing dialect belongs is very closing related to Mandarin ( due to the recent migration of Han Chinese to these regions) . Whereas Cantonese ,min or hakka are very distinct languages Closer to the language spoken during the Tang Dynasty where as Mandarin is regarded to be a language later un History.( Tang poem sound better ( the flow)with Cantonese or Hakka than mandarin)
So did Mao Zedong starved 60 millions Chinese !
Standard beijing mandarin was based on manchurians’ pronounciation of mandarin words
I've dealt with Cambodian refugees. A tragic situation.
I once read that the many diverse groups that make China see themselves primarily as “Chinese” despite being from different ethnic/linguistic groups because they see themselves as originating from the same civilization, sharing a common history. Their definition of nationality is different from how the term is used in the west with respect to European nation-states. Imagine if all former territories of the former Roman Empire saw themselves primarily as “Romans”.
1:33 it's pronounced You-oe not You. In Vietnamese it means Viet. The reason why that dialect is called Yue is that there were ancient tribes call Yue in the South of China, some were assimilated by the Han Chinese (modern-day Southern Chinese), some were not and migrated to the South to become modern-day Vietnamese, Thai and Laotian.
粤语 and 越南 Yue are two different character...
@@EricChien95 the one for cantonese is a borrowed character that deliberately replaced one resembling the character 越, so they were originally the same. You can look it up on Wiktionary, one of the meanings of 粤 is 越
Kudos, Masaman, on another well-done and well-researched video! 'Tis fascinating to see how many groups there who live in borderlands of China who are related to other peoples in neighbouring countries. There are, also, ethnic minorities, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus which founded dynasties that ruled over part or all of China in the past.
The Turks have never ruled China. On the contrary, China conquered the Turks and ruled for 50 years. Some Turks were assimilated by China.
I’m a Tibetan and I’m Chinese
Songhan Kalsang
That makes no sense
@@nutlover3609 tibet is his ethnicity
Chinese his is nationality
@@jaserader6107 agree, it's like Mexican American or Chinese American
@@nutlover3609 maybe he's mixed
emmm, i can see that you are not in China, so what does you represent？Hate or hypocrisy？
In Bangladesh, there has a proverb that, after about 10 miles, accent & cuisine changes inevitably .(cz,population dense) Now i am thinking, how much sort of accent & culture could be in china as a gigantic country .
Btw, this video is amazing.
this video is amazing
Manchu look quite different than Han Chinese. It's interesting how they had their own dynasty there at the end of the imperial era.
Of course, uyghurs, mongolic also dont look like han chinese. only european think like that.
They don't
dudewhyfi I seriously doubt it, I can't be able to identify whether a man is Manchu or Han, even though I am Chinese. Other ethnicities like Tibetan and Mongolian are quite different in terms of appearance.
They bribed the corrupt Chinese to open the great wall.
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They were welcomed in lol
Well, since the 90s we are having a considerable rising of Chinese immigrants in Brazil as well, especially in the Southeast region and especially in São Paulo where I live
Some cities like where I live have a considerable Chinese population (both immigrants and descendants), I have even studied with 2 Chinese guys on my senior year
Many of them became business owners here, and I'm sure that a lot ppl already went to a store or a restaurant owned by Chinese immigrants here, they are amazing ppl and I really love their food
Where do u live?
China consists of 56 ethnic groups, While the United States only recognizes 6. China all the same? Quit wrong perception...China is one of the most diverse country in the world!
You obviously don't know China has thousands of years to assimilate every other cultures into Han. Not to mention this video shows the modern day brainwash/assimilation here:
Xinjiang: China, where are my children?
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Technically speaking, the US recognizes 6 races, and only two ethnicities (Hispanic and Non-Hispanic, which can belong to any individual or multiple races). The inclusion of "Middle-Eastern/North African" in the 2020 Census may reveal previously-hidden trends in demographics, as MENA people were historically counted as "White".
I bet all 56 live in us too.
@土耳其人都是斷屌群衆 china the most hated country in the world
cy c The difference is that Chinas ethnic groups are all Mongoloid and genetically very similar.
The Han ethnic group can be more thought of as a cultural ethnic group that becomes hereditary. The Han ethnicity is more of an identity with cultural ideas tacked on than a traditional ethnicity. And the Han-ification of non-Han people happens all the time, with the most recent and notable example of the Manchu ethnic group being slowly absorbed by the Han people. Which is to say, while the Manchu might not related to the Han, the Manchu are becoming a part of the Han ethnicity because the Manchu people and the Han people around them are beginning to recognize them(selves) as Han.
중국은 근본없는 잡종
garbage comment. Don't play with semantics to confuse the subject. That's a stpd approach unless you're Han and trying to blur the differences.
Han is Han. Manchu are not Han. They are Chinese
@@Willxdiana they are both Chinese and humans. Thats the only thing that matters
Do a video on the Hui, who are Muslim but - unlike the Uighurs - ethnically Chinese and not suppressed by the PRC and economically very successful!
Yosef Robinson good idea, they are also the the first ethnic minority in China to convert to Christianity. That’s is why Islam is sometimes referred to in China as the hui religion (回教)
I'm hui
I'm Hui, my ancestor was Arab
@@ellenasura1214 Yeah, from what I've read, Hui do have Arab and Persian as well as Han Chinese ancestors. The Hui certainly have Han Chinese ancestry to a much greater extent than the Uighurs.
Love your videos. 2 comments. Hungarians (aka Magyars) weren't Huns. They were Uralic Ongers or Ugurs (from which the word Ogre comes). Also, the Chinese word Hsiung-nu is pron- Shoo-noo. (and they were possibly related to Turks). Best wishes, Hal Elliott (in Utah).
I just subscribed. Do a video on the Thai's as they are one of the very few countries who haven't met colonization.
1:32 "Yue" (粵) not "Yu"
6:23 Pronounced like "Hway" not "Hwee"
The wisdom of Emperor Qin, was to have 1 written language. An ethnic group may pronounce a written character differently from another ethnic group. But the written character has the same meaning. In this way every ethnic group can communicate with each other using the same written character. For example the written character for “hand” is pronounced as “show” in Mandarin, “chiu” in Teochew dialect or “shao” in Cantonese. The uniform 1 written language enabled China to be governed for centuries.
The comment section for this page use to be intellectually stimulating. It has turned to shit like every where else on UA-cam.
I wish that people would actually talk about what the video was actually about. I love hearing different people's experiences and opinions on the subject.
I hear you. I love your videos. It seems like the comment section today is all kids or something just saying stuff like "we were Chinese and shit". It gets the most likes so it's everything that came up first on my phone.
+X5456 YZ shut up.i m Indian I came here bcoz I was confused.few days ago I watch one drama.but actor n actress their features were so different than regular Chinese ppl.she was hui n he was Han.also I was wondering how the heck Muslims entered in China.i was happy that China is not hybrid but after listening this video I m not happy any more.u all r mix like other countries.shame.
There are hundreds of ethnic groups in China and more languages.
I speak multiple Chinese dialect and English. the difficulty level between Han people from different area dialect to understand or learn to understand a new dialect, amounts from a heavy Australian accent to something like french to a english speaker. BUT the big but is: Chinese writing was unified since the birth of the empire. I can write anything to anyone who reads Chinese, does not matter even wecould not under stand each other speaking. even with Japanese we can do the same thing to a less degree, so was Korea and Vietnam if they didn't make up a new writing system in recent history.
I enjoy your vids Masaman….I used to teach at a University in China for Chinese Cultural minorities....some of the more influential Chinese ethic minorities you did not mention would be the 'Miao' people and the 'Tu' people ...keep the great vids comming!
Han isn't based on genetics at all, but cultural. If you travel around China you'll find so much diversity in language, culture, food and varying facial features.
however，in fact both based on genetics and culture
所有不同的方言都可以用汉语书写。至于你说的食物不一样，这个太正常了，生活在海边的人和生活在山区的人，他们的食物能一样吗？你想想是不是这样
Culturally and anthropologically speaking, China is my most favorite foreign country on Earth. The 56-strong ethnic groups, and their cultural heritage, are absolutely beautiful and fascinating.
Ashame the communist party is and has been in charge for over 50 years now
It'd be more interesting if all the Han would just go live in a section of China and leave all the rest of the people alone.
@@seanettles657 exactly
Sea_ Nettles exactly
You are beautiful and I appreciate your sense of humor. I don't usually comment, but I think you deserve a compliment like this…if I don't mind sending a friend request to Gmail, I'd love to be your friend.
Trying to identify Han in to individuals group can be a messy business, because the writing system is unified and rather consists through out time and region. The dialect is different because language do diversified over time a lot faster than the writing. The most recent example is English. Just in few hundred years of time you already get a language branch out some many forms. So if you picture it at millennium scale, it is not too far of stretched that language has been diversified to a state that they may sound like tow different language. The speed of a language evolve is affected by culture exchange as well. In the recent century especially last one or two decades there are lot of loan words being put in the language, people live in China in the 80 will have a very difficult time to understand what people are talking about despite the fact the pronunciation and grammatical structure remaining unchanged. But change do happens and it happens fast.
9:45 Fujimori has a japanese background
Once a Chinese scientist, who was working for WWF , when we discussed the impotence of conservation of environment and diverse languages and cultures of the many different people in China, she said the peoples who called themselves Han once belonged to other groups but now considered as Han, is good for stability of the country.....
Why couldn't u use a photo of dilreba dilmurat to represent uyghurs??
Or gulnezer bekhtiyar? 😁
@Troll77 Neptune she used to be darker ;)
Informative and persuasive! Most, if not all, of the so called "Han Chinese" have multiple ancestries depending on the region they have been inhabiting and the indigenous groups with which they have been intermarrying. The Cantonese people, language and culture epitomise this incessant process of Sinicization, during which the indigenous groups, as conquered peoples, were Sinicized by Han conquerors. Therefore, the so-called Han Chinese population is more diverse than a lot of people originally think.
Dude your channel is awesome.
Just the whole Premise of disecting race and ethnicity in a non biased way is extremely refreshing.
Hey man, great video. Formally, I’m identified as Singaporean (Chinese). I am a 2nd/3rd generation immigrant.
Culturally, I identify more with the general Singapore culture while maintaining some of our “Chinese-ness”.
Yes, it’s true that the Han Chinese is rather a generic term. In China, Han Chinese are grouped into Northern Chinese and Southern Chinese.
My family came from South China and my grandma will refer to our ancestry homeland as Tangsha / Mountain of the Tang (dynasty).
Traditionally, we speak Teochew which is different from Cantonese although we are part of the Guangzhou / Canto region.
Teochew is hokkien?
In the past Malaysian Chinese would say they're "Tong shan yan" people of Tong Mountain (Cantonese).
Thank you so much for this video. I've been asked this question many many times in Europe and every time I need to spend at least one hour explaining this, but some people are still confused or won't believe. This video should be in the textbook in Europe!
I am from Hainan Island, southernmost tropical island of China, most people mistook me for Korean or Japanese in Canada, and girls who favor me are mostly from the SE Asian countries :)
Your personal genetic can be quite complicated and have an interesting lineage history along with human migration in the past, you can do a different kind of standard commercial in-mail DNA test kits to find out, never let nationalism and arrogance stop you from finding out more about yourself.
Chinese history sounds fascinating. Wish they would teach more of it in grade school
Why ?
@@dezos2900 Because it sounds interesting. And China is a very important country on the global stage.
@@dukes1993724 for the Chinese people, yes. Not for everyone else.
@@dezos2900 That’s like, you opinion man.
@@dukes1993724 chinese history like the great wall is teached in school but race and ethnicites are another matter. we cannot teach everything in school because there is no time
Taoism is pronounced with a "D." Think Dowism
calm down, you'll get the "D"
@@simonbernard4216 harharhar
It's a matter of perspective... Here we have a group of people (the Hans) who choose to look for similarities rather than differences, and built their language and culture that way.
Indo-Chinese ethnic groups also includes Tamil-Chinese ethnic group based in Singapore, Myanmar and very small population in Tamilnadu(India).
You mean the Chindians.
1:37 Actually, the older established enclaves in South East Asia speak Hokkien/Fujianese not Cantonese. I know, because I live in South East Asia and am descended from Fujianese immigrants from South China. Most of the older Chinese folks here speak their native Hokkien, but younger folks are opting to learn Cantonese and Mandarin instead for practical reasons.
The gentleman in 9:48 is not a Chinese in Peru but Japanese, more precisely, the former president Fujimori of Peru.
Han is a very mysterious race. Some people say that Han is not based on race, but based on cultural. In my opinion, Han is not even based on cultural, it is just a self-identification: if you think you are Han, then you are, irrespective of your race, language, and even cultural.
Go ask an African to tell that he is Han Chinese in China, I doubt that who will agree him
Lu Zhang basically! well put!
Hi. I'm a black person from Nigeria, but identify myself as Han!...
See the fallacy of self-identification?
stupid
@Martin Beck , of couse, what's your sir name???? where 's your family root ? No records? We have our even tracable thousands of years origin of a family name/line.
The term 'Han Chinese' is similar to the term 'Arab' - it's a Cultural Super-Ethnicity rather than a Homogenous One. The Han, like the Arabs, have absorbed many different groups into their Culture and Identity - so that within a couple of generations, their non-Han origins are either forgotten or hidden.
The difference between the Southern Chinese of Guandong and the Vietnamese of Hanoi is not genetic, they are actually genetically similar and have a shared history, but the difference is that the Chinese of Guandong chose or allowed themselves to be absorbed into the Han Nation - the Vietnamese didn't.
That why I say the Cantonese lose their Vietnamese root.😂.
Arab doesn't descend from one ancestor, just an amalgamation of different people under Arab empire. Han descends from one ancestor, that's why didn't fragment over time. Diversity came from matrilineage, as Han absorbed other tribes.
South Chinese in Guangdong are Sinitic. Vietnamese are Austro-Asiatic native to Red River Delta in Vietnam. Both are different origin, genetics and language. Just that Vietnam got annexed into Nanyue and adopted the name. But hundred Yue is a collective for diverse ethnic groups, most of whom are today's minority like Zhuang in Guangxi. These people didn't assimilate into Han, still kept their identity.
Difference between Guangdong and Vietnam is obvious. VMese shorter with smaller frame; smaller skull with lower face line; deeper rounder eyes, defined double lids.
All your videos are very educational and interesting , well done
3:15 what hell this photo? a tibetan protesting in america, but arrested by chinese army? america is controlled by chinese?
Irony: saying not all Han are the same, then showing Alberto Fujimori as an example of a South American Chinese person at 9:44
Lol
I think you are missing Tai- Kadai ethic group in Yunan, China. Theravada Buddhism is the most common in Xishuangbanna(Sipsongpanna). They still celebrate water festival( Songkran New Year) same as other Tai-Kadai groups.
It occurred to me recently that every region that was not traditionally ruled by christity has many different religions coexisting in the same space. Roman empire too was a home for many different religions until Christianity took over. Imagine if pagans and wiccans still existed in Europe, or if Incan or Mayan religions existed in Americas.
the whole switch to christianity by emperor constantine was to consolidate his absolute power. Borrowing the established religion and doctrines from christians, he can now put out a standardized "code of conduct" for citizens to follow. That's the whole point of the "Roman Catholic", they were not the only christians at the time, but a inseperable trait identity for roman citizens. "We are the great cultured romans who followed the holy way, others are barbarians and heretics". Rome could not contain itself through conquest and military power, as the western empire fell, the only thing byzantium could do was well... spread their influence through religion.
Did china have similar thing that happened? Yes! but instead of religion, first 2500 years ago through schools of thoughts, to later communism. China was united by philosophy and not religion.... which really aren't that much different.
Mayan religion & Wiccan are in fact being revived. Thanks to increased interest.
Native Chinese, and I am really proud of the diversity here in China. My classmates have different cultures and traditions from me, and every time we come back to school from home, we show sth different to others. That's fascinating. Plus I never judge others by region or religion.
Are you still around dude?
You're Chinese, but your classmates who have different cultures and traditions from you may not be Chinese.
@@susanzhang5634 Well it is Chinese because these ethnic groups are part of the Chinese nation.
Chinese might be equivalent of identifying someone as a European. Which is not ethnically specific in any way.
@@susanzhang5634 they are all part of China and have Chinese nationality , so yeah they are Chinese
I found at least two photos that the police suppress its citizens are not Chinese police or Chinese citizens. They were from Nepal or other south east Asia countries.
4:44 -> i m pretty sure ( like 99% ) that pic is a Vietnamese worshiping her ancestor
Chuẩn
My grandfather speaks Cantonese and my grandmother speaks Hakka. How they got married is beyond me, but both lived in Hawaii so they must have used pidgin English.
Hey man love is boundless when it's genuine.
@@gungatz6696 It could be lust too. Two billion Chinese can't be all Wong.
I think it is more easy for people to understand being Chinese if you consider "Han" (Hua Ren) is somewhat akin to being "European" as an umbrella group but further down the evolutionary proccess given age and history thereby slightly more homogenous.
The languages between the different Han groups have similarity but like in the case of Hokkien can be VERY different and closer in some respects to Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese. This is because of Fujian province's general isolation because of mountains and its exposure toward the seas. BUT it should also be noted that both Teochews and Kokkiens often refer to themsleves as "Tng nang" which means Tang people. The language has indeed many relations to the last big cultural influencer of the province the 'Open' Tang dynasty which is where you also find a number of influences to Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese languages.
As to these languages amongst the Han, I often wondered why they are even labelled as dialects. Indeed Cantonese have some mutually intelligable words but is no less different than say Spanish from Italian, in its relation to Mandarin.
I think there needs to be a serious rethink of what constitutue a "Chinese".
To me when people in China say "Zhong guo ren", they are referring to all other ethnic groups within the union inclusive of Han and minorities. Its akin to being a Roman citizen.
When they say ""Han Ren" its like saying "european' bc there is enough diversification within the various (particularly Southern) dialect groups to constitute them as languages. Within Mandarin, there are regional difference more akin to "dialect".
European Linguist have done a disservice IMO by erroneous classification of what could constitute as language into 'dialect' labelling.
Aside form that, when you look at say, Europe, it has plenty of churches mainly Catholic or Protestants.
To the outsider, one Cathedral or church resembles more or less another. Its the same in China with Buddisht or Taoist temples.
Maybe Europe has preserved better its historical structures many being made of more durable material than traditional Chinese structures (aside from Great Wall etc) but we should also remember many of central european historical buildings were indeed rebuilt brick by brick since world war 2.
When China gets more affluent (if not it may already be happening), I expect it will do the same albeit whether they will pay as stringent detail to historical accuracy in the 'recreations' remains to be seen.
The other aspect that sets aside Han Chinese historically of course is food. Nothern China is wheat based where SOuthern China is rice base culture and it co-relates to the food culture. Anyone who knows Chinese people will readily realise how important food is in Chinese culture and there are so many regional differences.
In observing China I think it is important to see the differences from Chinese eyes and not traditional european lenses. And food is an aspect given short shrift where it may have as much significance if not more as say wine and beer drinking separation in europa.
It vene permeates to some extent the thinking.
I often like the anecdote shared on how Northern Chinese, Central(Shanghai) Chinese and Southerners would react when meeting an Alien from outer space. The Northerners they say would like to study it, the Central Chinese would prefer to do business with it and the Southerners would like to find a way to eat it.
Food for thought but that may be for a somewhat different discussion.
Well written
Would you say tang people from fujian and han people from beijing look different?
Alberto Fujimore, that appears as an example of Chinese in Peru, is, as a fact, Japanese.
FYI @masaman i thoroughly enjoy your videos but just to clarify i saw you posted a picture of Alberto fujimori former president of Peru ( Japanese ancestry ) when talking about the Chinese community in Peru. Again Fujimori is not of Chinese ancestry. I appreciate your videos and thank for the amazing work you do
The photo at 9:50 is not chinese, it is former president of Peru, Fokumori? who is Japanese ancestry. very informative.
Thank you for the video. It sure was very informative . Nonetheless, when talking about the significant presence of Chinese in Latin American countries (Mexico and Peru the most exemplary), you included the photograph of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (a mistake). The population would refer to him as "el Chinito", ' The Chinese Guy' --with the ending -ito giving it a sense of endearment. Yet, he is of Japanese ancestors, not Chinese.
I appreciate your informative video and look forward to watching your other ones , as well. Thank you.
You are beautiful and I appreciate your sense of humor. I don't usually comment, but I think you deserve a compliment like this…if I don't mind sending a friend request to Gmail, I'd love to be your friend.
5:14 the girl in the background is like “WTF”
it's a boi
Why do "Chinatown" quickly pops up in every major city in every country if they are not homogeneous and not ethnocentric?
Well, almost all Chinatown outside US are from Canton.
@@niamtxiv : Yes, and that is because the East coastal cities were like Canton.. and when the foreign countries wanted to trade, and then this caused indirect fighting within the mainland, the chinese governing officials at that time, only reduced the number of ports where these ships could dock. One of them is Canton. So yes.. most migrants in other chinatowns, or "coolies" as we say, were slave labourers on those ships... and therefore were Cantonese people. From Canton. But these families also became rich much later on, and therefore brought wealth back to their own hometowns. So no... it is not true that Hans chinese were poor then. Cos those Hans chinese worked abroad, and made themselves wealthy. It is this kind of indirect link now.. forcing the other mongolians, and manchus, to get subsidies, but mostly based on taxes collected from Hans chinese most probably ! This is why some Hans chinese are annoyed and ANGRY.
The boundaries between groups / regions of different ethics are blurred because of mixed marriages from migrations from north to south and from east to west for centuries. It is a mistake to based the separation of ethics still exists because of local dialects speaking languages. Han is all of those no longer obvious.
A great percentage of images you’ve used in your video has not been taken from China at all, and some of your opinions are doubted to be biased.
Do I smell..a Han Chinese with national pride?
Mamasan got all of his info from wikipedia and not from his own research. A lot of what he said are wrong.
09:53 Alberto Fujimori is not Chinese, he is Japanese Peruvian
he is Korean ,,, Korean to Japanese to peruvian pretender nigga...
一帮外国人自以为很了解中国，向你们科普中国的历史，某些人还一个劲bb，我就来自广西，我们家有汉，侗，毛南，壮多个民族，但是大家从来没觉得有什么不同，我们的国家在民族方面处理的很好，没有西方那些种族歧视，我们都坚信自己同属于中华民族，某些人连中国都没来过就书本上和媒体上看了一些关于中国的介绍，然后自以为对中国有多了解，不认为很可笑吗？好好了解一下中国，不要随便就否定一切好吧，PS，我会英文，也会西班牙语，只是懒得译成英文
Leo Luo 广西人这里_(:з」∠)_
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Ian Ho 你根本没有明白我的意思，我没有觉得这个视频有问题，我也觉得这个视频在介绍中国，向大家科普，我是在反感评论中那些没来过中国，却对中国评头论足的人
Ian Ho hello guy，I do not think you really know what I wanna express. l agree it is a good video to introduce China for the foreign people. I just sick of the people who haven't been to China but alway made some terrible comments on China. I think you have seen many commtents like that under this video.
民族不等于种族。
Great videos dude!
Plaease, do; What if China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia and both Koreas were united as one country? just like Sun Yat Sen proposed, the Pan-Asian state
That is the territory of the Qing Dynasty, including present-day East Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, the Far East of Russia, Taiwan, Northeast India, northern Myanmar, and Taiwan. It is not an idea, it did exist, and various countries divided Chinese territory during China's weakest period
This was an actual thing when China was at it's peak
Can you make a video about the Dutch sailors in the 16th century that landed in Korea and left descendents? I myself could be a descendent because my DNA test shows a trace amount of European.
Andy Kim i suppose you korean are son of E.T
Thank you for citing your sources, bro
I love your videos Masaman, but in this video you made a mistake when you mention the Chinese in Peru and you showed a pic of the former president Fujimori, he was of Japanese ancestry (and even had the Japanese nationality). Maybe you can add a caption just to acknowledge this. Thanks.