This week, a social media post that pointed out discrimination toward ethnic minorities in China went viral before it was censored. The author, a 23-year-old recent university graduate who is ethnically Mongolian, also received angry death threats from online readers.
The author recounted how she was rebuffed at a youth hostel in Beijing when the clerk saw her ID card (she grew up in Inner Mongolia but does not speak Mongolian). “We can’t accept people like you,” the clerk said, explaining that the local police had regulations against ethnic minorities like Inner Mongolians, Uighurs, and Tibetans.
“How ridiculous is this country?” wrote the woman in her post, which collected 2 million views. “It asks you for your love on the one hand, and stabs you with the other. It says you are family and labels you as the lowest-class citizen at the same time.”...
E. A. Johnston | 10/6/2012
