[Vision2020] Tibetan Fight for Freedom

[Andreas Schou]

>
>  China doesn't share a genetic heritage, language, culture,  religion,
>  or cuisine with itself.  There are 55 official minority nationalities
>  in China, and 235 living languages (according to ethnologue.com).
>  These are not like dialects in the US, where Bostonians understand
>  Californians who understand Southerners, if with some difficulty.
>  These dialects are so different that they are _literally_ mutually
>  unintelligible.

That's truthy, in the same limited sense that every American Indian
tribe is a separate language and ethnic group in American. There's a
lot of indigenous diversity in China. On the other hand, over 90% of
the country belongs to the Han ethnic group, and over 90% of the
country speaks either Mandarin or Cantonese.

-- ACS