This is unlikely because employers think factory labor is unsuitable for Tibetans or Uyghurs, but instead due to how the nation they're situated in thinks of them.
Even if the people doing the hiring, managing the people doing the hiring or even running the company being hired for don't personally care they still have a strong incentive to discriminate because they know that that's what the party wants and that it is best for them if they do that.
That's not what the party wants, national laws is for no ethnic discrimination, if people don't have jobs, they create trouble, and economic improvement and providing jobs is basically what the CCP is building it's power base on.
The one you're talking about is religion, which is funny considering that communism is anti-religion, why are you surprised, my grandma goes to an underground Chinese church, religion was always bad in China.
You will notice most of the guards and police in Xinjiang are Uyghur, they're just not Muslim.
Also do you not hear the hypocrisy, why would CCP want you to break their national laws? CCP can break their own laws, doesn't mean you can. How about you break the national law on censorship next? It will become a slippery slope.
> You will notice most of the guards and police in Xinjiang are Uyghur, they're just not Muslim.
That's interesting. Wikipedia tells me that 45.84% of the population of Xinjiang are Uyghurs and they're predominantly Muslim, so how come they're overrepresented in the police force?
I guess they could easily be lying about their religions or were not serious adherents in the first place, but still you'd expect to also see many Han Chinese working those jobs. Did you only mean those parts of Xinjiang that are > 70% Uyghur?
> Also do you not hear the hypocrisy, why would CCP want you to break their national laws? CCP can break their own laws, doesn't mean you can. How about you break the national law on censorship next? It will become a slippery slope.
I'm not sure whether you're a native speaker (I'm not) but reading your first link doesn't inspire me with confidence that the majority of police in Xinjiang are Uyghur.
The internal recruitment drive in Xinjiang that requires applicants to be "politically legitimate" and atheist is only aimed at teachers, and those requirements seem likely to exclude Uyghurs one way or another. The reason given in the article why so many teachers are even needed is that many Uyghur teachers have been interned in camps and the government is seeking replacement for them.
They also quote Dilxat Raxit, spokesman of the World Uyghur Congress, as saying that the CCP doesn't trust Uyghur policemen to remain loyal in case of a conflict, and therefore prefers recruiting Han Chinese. The announcement in your second link is given as evidence of that, since it's published on the nationwide platform, which would make it more likely to attract Han Chinese than locally within the Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture.
It's trivial to find many examples of the government itself violating this "law".
I see no reason to believe that they'd take any steps to step in and protect Uyghurs' from discrimination in the job market while at the same time detaining them in concentration camps.
Tibet is considered part of China because it was conquered during the Qing dynasty's war against the Dzungar Khanate at the same time as Xinjiang and Mongolia.
That doesn't mean that the native peoples of those areas are not stereotypically considered inferior to Han Chinese. It's comparable to the situation of Western colonies, whose peoples also weren't held in high regard, despite of the geopolitical importance of the regions they lived in.
They claim that it was an "unauthorized recruitment agency", but searching for the text from the image turns up plenty of results from 2015, such as http://www.sohu.com/a/27959735_233585 with exactly the same wording. So if it's unauthorized, then it's been going on for quite a while without anyone complaining.
My best guess for why it's included with the job requirements (rather than quietly filtering out people with non-Han names) is that they want to signal to workers that they won't be working together with minority peoples.
I think that's because of some rumours saying that they are barbarous/unreasonable.
And if you combine that with the rule of "Play safe", you get a bunch of externally-acquired stereotypers.
The thing make it even worse is that, in China, you don't meet normal Tibetans and Uyghurs every day. Many Han people get their first impression of Tibetans/Uyghurs from the those fake ones who trying to sell scam medicine and food.
The government did almost nothing to those fakers. What they could do? Confiscate them could result some distorted news and even more rumours. And if the administration got unlucky and confiscated the real deal, then that will be really really bad for them.
BTW, the company can be sued for such discrimination. But it's FoxConn, the Sweatshop of IT industry, maybe it just simply too unworthy to do so.
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[ 5.6 ms ] story [ 65.3 ms ] threadThe one you're talking about is religion, which is funny considering that communism is anti-religion, why are you surprised, my grandma goes to an underground Chinese church, religion was always bad in China.
You will notice most of the guards and police in Xinjiang are Uyghur, they're just not Muslim.
If you read NYT, you will see that they're pressuring them to "renounce Islam": https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/worl...
Also do you not hear the hypocrisy, why would CCP want you to break their national laws? CCP can break their own laws, doesn't mean you can. How about you break the national law on censorship next? It will become a slippery slope.
That's interesting. Wikipedia tells me that 45.84% of the population of Xinjiang are Uyghurs and they're predominantly Muslim, so how come they're overrepresented in the police force?
I guess they could easily be lying about their religions or were not serious adherents in the first place, but still you'd expect to also see many Han Chinese working those jobs. Did you only mean those parts of Xinjiang that are > 70% Uyghur?
> Also do you not hear the hypocrisy, why would CCP want you to break their national laws? CCP can break their own laws, doesn't mean you can. How about you break the national law on censorship next? It will become a slippery slope.
That looks like you meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19340226 instead.
Where I'm citing, sources are all Chinese: http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/18/11/28/n10879799.htm http://www.gjgwy.org/201810/399611.html
The internal recruitment drive in Xinjiang that requires applicants to be "politically legitimate" and atheist is only aimed at teachers, and those requirements seem likely to exclude Uyghurs one way or another. The reason given in the article why so many teachers are even needed is that many Uyghur teachers have been interned in camps and the government is seeking replacement for them.
They also quote Dilxat Raxit, spokesman of the World Uyghur Congress, as saying that the CCP doesn't trust Uyghur policemen to remain loyal in case of a conflict, and therefore prefers recruiting Han Chinese. The announcement in your second link is given as evidence of that, since it's published on the nationwide platform, which would make it more likely to attract Han Chinese than locally within the Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture.
I see no reason to believe that they'd take any steps to step in and protect Uyghurs' from discrimination in the job market while at the same time detaining them in concentration camps.
https://unintendedconsequenc.es/uyghurs-xinjiang-onward-to-t...
That doesn't mean that the native peoples of those areas are not stereotypically considered inferior to Han Chinese. It's comparable to the situation of Western colonies, whose peoples also weren't held in high regard, despite of the geopolitical importance of the regions they lived in.
My best guess for why it's included with the job requirements (rather than quietly filtering out people with non-Han names) is that they want to signal to workers that they won't be working together with minority peoples.
And if you combine that with the rule of "Play safe", you get a bunch of externally-acquired stereotypers.
The thing make it even worse is that, in China, you don't meet normal Tibetans and Uyghurs every day. Many Han people get their first impression of Tibetans/Uyghurs from the those fake ones who trying to sell scam medicine and food.
The government did almost nothing to those fakers. What they could do? Confiscate them could result some distorted news and even more rumours. And if the administration got unlucky and confiscated the real deal, then that will be really really bad for them.
BTW, the company can be sued for such discrimination. But it's FoxConn, the Sweatshop of IT industry, maybe it just simply too unworthy to do so.