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I'm sorry if Han people make up for 92% of the population, there are over 1.2 billion of them

I will rephrase this way

"92% of Chinese people are part of the Han ethnic group but that doesn't mean that they are mostly the same people... oh no wait! IT DOES!"

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More than 1 in 15 Chinese people are not part of the Han ethnic group. When somebody makes big “mostly” generalisations about people, I don't expect “you could have half the clubs in a school composed of these people and still have some left over, assuming uniform distribution” to be true.

You do know that saying bad things about $CountryX doesn't prove good things about $CountryY, and vice versa, right?

> More than 1 in 15 Chinese people are not part of the Han ethnic group

Are you jocking right?

1/15 is about 7%, did I say or did I not that ~92% of the people in China are from Han ethnic group?

92+7 = 99 so yeah, there are mostly the same people in China

I never said that the other ethnic minorities are uniformly distributed or that they do not exist.

For example anybody would say that in Italy the population is mainly formed by Italians.

And that would be true even though Italians in Italy have dropped to around 90% of the total.

Less than the Han in China.

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