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[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 38 points 10 months ago

China scientists

So, Chinese scientists?

[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago
[-] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

(acts confused in French)

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Probably because is an ethnicity and nationality. There are ethnic Chinese people all over the world and a few countries and regions are made of a majority of ethnic Chinese but are not related to China. Calling them the same thing is playing into the PRC's "all ethnic Chinese pledge their allegiance to China" nonsense.

[-] Netux@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Isreal like that game of pretend. They believe anti zionist Jews are traitors.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The reverse, however, isn't true. It may be somewhat understandable but not entirely reasonable to assume someone who is Chinese is from China which is what I'm trying to say.

[-] saimen@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago

Isn't that true for every (older) country though?

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Perhaps but I haven't encountered that myself. I'm ethnic Chinese that's a citizen of another ethnic Chinese majority nation so I've encountered this specific type a lot more.

[-] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago

Real talk, why is discussion around people and subjects in China so fucking weird?

If it's not referring to the entire population when it only applies to the government or a subset of them as a global "the Chinese" or doing silly shit like "China scientists" everyone's grammatical skills suddenly tank when even broaching a topic even tangential to the PRC.

[-] DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

Seriously, for me a "China scientist" is someone doing research on China, like a space scientist would do research on astronomy and similar. But I'm not a native English speaker, so, idk

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Someone doing research on China is a chiologist.

Same as someone doing research on biology is a biologist.

[-] hazl 2 points 10 months ago

Biology -> biolog -> biologist

China -> chin -> chinist?

[-] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago

No, it's people who study fine tableware.

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