06-28-2019, 12:41 AM
(06-27-2019, 10:38 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(06-23-2019, 06:34 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: I hadn't realized until now the depth of racial hatred between the
"Han" and the "Hao" (assuming I have those terms right)
I don't think you have those terms right. Both north Chinese and south Chinese are Han. Note that the one child policy only applied to Han, and it definitely applied to the south.
You do have it right that there is a split, though. I used to think it was a split between Cantonese speakers and Mandarin speakers, but I think by your definition Nanking was in the south, but the Nationalist government that was based in Nanjing was a Mandarin government.
You do bring up a very interesting point about all the revolutions starting in the South. The South is generally where the businesses and, let's say, capitalists are. I don't think of them as very prone to militarism - not as much as the north.
I think the northerners overreacted to your article with their insults because Chinese economic growth in recent decades has mostly been in the south, and some northerners may resent that.
China has more often been invaded from the north, the worst invasions by the Mongols. Even the Japanese really invaded largely from the north once they got a hold of Manchukuo. That makes a huge difference between North China and South China.
South Chinese have more often emigrated than invaded.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.