HACKER Q&A
📣 graderjs

Will China ever have white people in government?


Probably seems like a strange question, but consider that in the West, you can see "non-majority ethnic group" people in the government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_Americans_and_Pacific_Islands_Americans_in_the_United_States_Congress

Not that many, and I'm not sure how it compares to the "ratio" of these ethnicities to "Anglosaxon" or whatever as a whole, but China has 4x to 5x the people (tho presumably a lot lower number of non-Han-Chinese).

Somehow tho, I just don't see China ever embracing this. Is there a reason? Or am I wrong and is it possible?

I know in HK at least there have been a few white people in government positions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Zimmerman_(politician) - yet only a district councilor, not in LegCo

But I don't think this has happened in Taiwan or Macao, or the Mainland (at least since 1949).

  👤 mandaloric Accepted Answer ✓
They building mono-ethnic nation with mono-language, they don't need white people. I'm saying it as white. In the West, you can see "non-majority ethnic group" people in the government only because this was a result of taking PoC from their own home for slavery, like, British and American take, and now they are paying for this trick. China also don't need black people, because they using own nation for things, that US and BE does with slaves.
👤 King-Aaron
I know this is a pretty inane answer, but... "lol no"
👤 celine1719
The "white people" are categorized as Ethnic Minorities in China, they are natives, not immigrants.

The PRC recognizes 55 minority ethnic groups in China, which including Ethnic Russians (who are white people as you may refer)，Kazakh，Uyghur, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China

In the National People's Congress, which is the national legislature and constitutionally the supreme state authority of the PRC, it has Ethnic Minorities and Overseas Chinese delegates, and there is at least one delegate belonging to each of these ethnic groups in the current (12th) NPC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress#E...