F2F Class Notes 13th October (Celeste)

Poor Chinese people are poor because:

1. they don’t know how to speak Mandarin
2. lack of transportation = few or no transportation
3. mindset = the way they think

approximately ( uhh – procks -sim – it – lee ) = about / around

eg. There are approximately 100 cats in the park.

interior (inside) vs. exterior (outside)

eg. interior designer vs. exterior designer

majority ( muh – jor – it – ee ) vs. minority ( MY – nor – it – ee )

eg. The majority of people in China are from the Han ethnic group. There are many minority ethnic groups as well.

as well = also

live off the grid – live outside of the city where there is no electricity, running water

running water = kitchen sinks, toilets, showers, bath tubs, washing machines

Multiple ethnic groups populate China, where “China” is taken to mean areas controlled by either of the two states using “China” in their formal names, the People’s Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group, where (as of 2010) some 91.51%[1] of the population was classified as Han Chinese (~1.2 billion). Besides the Han majority, 55 other ethnic groups are recognised in China by the PRC government, numbering approximately 105 million people, mostly concentrated in the northwest, north, northeast, south, and southwest but with some in central interior areas.

The major minority ethnic groups in China are Zhuang (16.9 million), Uyghur (11.5 million), Hui (10.5 million), Manchu (10.3 million), Miao (9.4 million), Yi (8.7 million), Tujia (8.3 million), Tibetan (6.2 million), Mongol (5.9 million), Dong (2.8 million), Buyei (2.8 million), Yao (2.7 million), Bai (1.9 million), Korean (1.8 million), Hani (1.6 million), Li (1.4 million), Kazakh (1.4 million), and Dai (1.2 million).