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Chinese people are known as Zhongguoren (traditional Chinese: 中國人; simplified Chinese: 中国人) or as Huaren (traditional Chinese: 華人; simplified Chinese: 华人) by speakers of Standard Chinese, including those living in Greater China as well as overseas Chinese.
Before the early 2000s, the four major races in Singapore were the Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians. Today, the Chinese-Malay-Indian-Others (CMIO) model is the dominant organising framework of race in Singapore. [1] Race informs government policies on a variety of issues such as political participation, public housing and ...
Besides the Han Chinese majority, 55 other ethnic (minority) groups are categorized in present-day China, numbering approximately 105 million people (8%), mostly concentrated in the bordering northwest, north, northeast, south and southwest but with some in central interior areas.
- Chinese Privilege, White Privilege
- Chinese Privilege and Our Language-Inflected Contradictions
- Notes
But first, McIntosh’s 1988 paper. All of the writing advocating the utility of the Chinese privilege concept leans on her definition of White privilege. She writes that White privilege is like an “invisible and weightless knapsack” of “unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was “meant” to remain oblivious”. It is...
Many Chinese and non-Chinese Singaporeans agree that there are indeed “unearned assets” that accrue to the majority race-ethnicity by virtue of Chinese numerical superiority. Alfian Sa’at has tried to provide further clarity by explaining Chinese privilege is a type of majoritarian advantage. In thoughtful pieces, the Straits Times and Zaobao journ...
Daniel P. S. Goh & Terence Chong (2020): ‘Chinese privilege’ as shortcut in Singapore: a rejoinder in Asian Ethnicity. Goh and Chong were writing in response to Humairah Zainal & Walid Jumblatt Abdullah (2019): Chinese privilege in politics: a case study of Singapore’s ruling elites, Asian Ethnicity. See for example, ‘Racism still exists in Singapo...
Jul 16, 2021 · New debate on race, racism in Singapore tackles call-out culture and ‘Chinese privilege’. Is a ‘loud’ conversation on race occurring now because Singapore’s racial harmony is worsening?...
Apr 3, 2022 · How far has Singapore come in making "regardless of race" a lived reality for all? The 2021 CNA-IPS Survey on Race Relations shows mixed signs of acceptance and discrimination among Chinese, Malay and Indian respondents.
Jun 14, 2023 · Singapore’s racial classification system — the Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Others (CMIO) scheme — is a key policy in maintaining racial harmony among the country’s diverse multiracial population.
