56 Ethnicities of China

[Loki]

[GrebluBro]

India outnumber them..


I respect China for uniting these many ethnicities and make them work together to make their country more prosperous.

India isn't doing this well..

Many Indians identify with their ethnicity first, 'Indian' comes second only

It's well-known ethnicity & languages are highly related

Individual mother tongues in India number several hundreds;[10] the 1961 census recognized 1,652.
According to Census of India of 2001, 30 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, 122 by more than 10,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

[zhaoyun]

India outnumber them

It's because China has been a nation state for 2000 years. Actually China is by far the oldest nation state, so it's assimilated most of its ethnicities to the Han Chinese (who are still very different from each other to this day) as a general majority.

[Loki]

Yes, but most Indian ethnicities look roughly similar, save for some small tribes. In China, you have Caucasoids and Mongoloids.

[GrebluBro]

It's because China has been a nation state for 2000 years. Actually China is by far the oldest nation state, so it's assimilated most of its ethnicities to the Han Chinese (who are still very different from each other to this day) as a general majority.

Most of present India was always together as you can see in following empire maps (2300 years covered including British who added South India in the end)

Most of South India was never a part of India until British took over..

[zhaoyun]

Yes, but most Indian ethnicities look roughly similar, save for some small tribes. In China, you have Caucasoids and Mongoloids.

Actually, I think there is much more physical/cultural variety in India than in China. Historically India has not been one state, and there has been more different mixes. There is caucasoid, australoid, mongoloid and even negroid (Andaman islands) in India. China is primarily just East Asian Mongoloid and a few small Caucasoid and Malay looking minorities.

[Loki]

It's because China has been a nation state for 2000 years. Actually China is by far the oldest nation state, so it's assimilated most of its ethnicities to the Han Chinese (who are still very different from each other to this day) as a general majority.

China also has the oldest language and the oldest writing, still in existence after thousands of years.

[zhaoyun]

China also has the oldest language and the oldest writing, still in existence after thousands of years.

Yeah, that's one thing that as a Chinese, I take a lot of pride in. China was a great advanced empire during the Roman times, and today, its still a great empire and rising as a superpower. It's quite amazing when you think about how many other empires have collapsed and have gone and China is still here.

[Loki]

Yeah, that's one thing that as a Chinese, I take a lot of pride in. China was a great advanced empire during the Roman times, and today, its still a great empire and rising as a superpower. It's quite amazing when you think about how many other empires have collapsed and have gone and China is still here.

Chinese civilization also developed independently from the Fertile Crescent.

[Kiyant]

Yeah, that's one thing that as a Chinese, I take a lot of pride in. China was a great advanced empire during the Roman times, and today, its still a great empire and rising as a superpower. It's quite amazing when you think about how many other empires have collapsed and have gone and China is still here.

China is such a big country with so many humans and such a great history of since and culture so why could people like the Mongolians/Uyghur/Manchu and Göktürks (basically few steppe nomads) conquer them?