By Blaine Kaltman
The Turkic Muslims from imperative Asia often called the Uighur have lengthy confronted social and financial negative aspects in China because of their minority prestige. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China deals a distinct perception into present conflicts because of the increase of Islamic fundamentalism and the chinese language government’s oppression of spiritual minorities that experience heightened the measure of polarization among the Uighur and the dominant chinese language ethnic workforce, the Han.
writer Blaine Kaltman’s examine relies on in-depth interviews that he carried out in chinese language with out both the help of an interpreter or the data of the chinese language govt. those riveting conversations disclose the suggestions of a large socioeconomic spectrum of Han and Uighur, revealing their mutual prejudices. The Uighurs think that the Han discriminate opposed to them in nearly each point in their lives, and this notion of racism motivates the Uighurs’ personal prejudice opposed to the Han.
Kaltman studies that Uighur illegal activity (unlike that of alternative minorities, which predominantly happens inside their very own groups) is directed opposed to their perceived oppressors, the Han chinese language. Under the Heel of the Dragon bargains a different perception right into a misunderstood global and a close rationalization of the cultural perceptions that force those misconceptions.
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In Urumqi, one middle-aged Uighur man told me, “I think that the people here get along. That and, as Urumqi develops, more people have more money. You know, for a few years there, it seemed like Uighur weren’t making money and developing with Urumqi, but now that has changed. Now that Uighur are learning Mandarin and finding better jobs, the Han attitude toward Uighur is changing . . ” He laughed and said, “Now even Han restaurants in Urumqi serve Uighur food. Since Urumqi is developing, most Uighur are getting richer.
According to one of the men, “It’s fine for us to sell food during Ramadan, we just can’t eat it. So Ramadan is a difficult time for us, since we have to work and be hungry. But it’s no problem. Besides, there isn’t much business in this area. ” The Uighur men said they prayed daily. They said there was no mosque nearby, so they prayed at home or, if necessary, while at work. While many Uighur who attended Friday services at the Niu Jie Mosque did not appear economically well off, here again there were exceptions.
According to one older Shanghai Uighur man and his son, who was in his twenties, Uighur realize that the Han look down on religious worship, and, as a result, many Uighur no longer pray. “Even in Xinjiang nowadays there are many Uighur who don’t pray,” explained the father. “They are embarrassed of their religion. ” “Other Han people,” I clarified. Both men nodded. According to the father, while he sometimes went to the mosque in Shanghai, his son prayed only at home, and not often. 1-134 6/1/07 11:43 AM Page 48 The men nodded, smiling.