Do you think your country should be homogeneous? One culture, one nation. What of the two largest countries in the world?
China seems to think so. It has already put down nationalist movements in Tibet. It has jailed a million Uighurs in Xin Jiang. There are street battles in Hong Kong. China tries to make Taiwan a pariah among nations. Who should have a say in these decisions? Besides China
People should. Democracy is an absolute good. Every adult should be able to vote. That is now the dispute in Hong Kong.
Taiwan. Taiwan has a democracy. So far, the voters of Taiwan elect people with varying levels of distance from China
The international community should not have accepted China’s behavior toward Tibet and should not accept what is happening to the Uighurs of Xin Jiang now.
India, at its inception as a modern nation, was wracked by sectarian unrest. Muslims moved north to what became Pakistan. Hindus moved south to India. People were killed along the way.
There are hardly any Hindus left in Pakistan.
Eighty percent of India is Hindu. Fifteen percent is Muslim.
Jammu and Kashmir was different. It is almost 70% Muslim and almost 30% Hindu.
Until recently, it was the only Indian province to have an autonomous status. That is ended now. While the Indian government was incorporating Jammu and Kashmir as a province like others, it was treated differently. All communication in and out, even within the province, was shut down. The government was tno going to allow ongoing unrest to turn into rebellion as the status change was being made.
India’s action was harsh. Not in a league with China putting a million Uighurs in concentration camps. Not like Buddhist Myanmar driving Muslim Rohingya out of the country. But harsh.
Is there hope for a vision of heterogeneous countries? We are having a little trouble with that vision in the United States at the moment.
