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Mongols in China is certainly a label that a non-expert might find confusing, and which might have also been more appropriately labeled as Mongols of China. However, Chinese people of Mongolian descent sounds very insulting to me, unless you talk about citizens of Mongolia of non-Mongol ethnicity that have adopted Chinese ethnicity. People of Mongol ethnicity born in China are certainly precisely that, Chinese citizens of Mongolian ethnicity, but they are not Chinese people in any unambiguous sense. (Uncertainty about when to use what label is quite common for Mongolian citizens of China when they introduce themselves to foreigners to the region.) This part, if unfortunate, might still be acceptable, but of Mongolian descent is very insulting. Since most of these people identify as Mongolians, they are not merely of Mongolian descent (as if they were 5th-generation migrants), but are Mongols in any proper sense of the word. For this reason, I am opening this section to inquire for possible ways of renaming this category before I actually move it or ask administrators to move it.
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Category:Chinese people of Mongolian descent is part of WikiProject Central Asia, a project to improve all
Central Asia-related articles. This includes but is not limited to
Afghanistan,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Mongolia,
Tajikistan,
Tibet,
Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan,
Xinjiang and Central Asian portions of
Iran,
Pakistan and
Russia, region-specific topics, and anything else related to Central Asia. If you would like to help improve this and other Central Asia-related articles, please
join the project. All interested editors are welcome.Central AsiaWikipedia:WikiProject Central AsiaTemplate:WikiProject Central AsiaCentral Asia articles
This category is within the scope of WikiProject Mongols, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Mongol culture, history, language, and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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How to rename this category?
Mongols in China is certainly a label that a non-expert might find confusing, and which might have also been more appropriately labeled as Mongols of China. However, Chinese people of Mongolian descent sounds very insulting to me, unless you talk about citizens of Mongolia of non-Mongol ethnicity that have adopted Chinese ethnicity. People of Mongol ethnicity born in China are certainly precisely that, Chinese citizens of Mongolian ethnicity, but they are not Chinese people in any unambiguous sense. (Uncertainty about when to use what label is quite common for Mongolian citizens of China when they introduce themselves to foreigners to the region.) This part, if unfortunate, might still be acceptable, but of Mongolian descent is very insulting. Since most of these people identify as Mongolians, they are not merely of Mongolian descent (as if they were 5th-generation migrants), but are Mongols in any proper sense of the word. For this reason, I am opening this section to inquire for possible ways of renaming this category before I actually move it or ask administrators to move it.
G Purevdorj (
talk) 15:19, 15 April 2018 (UTC)reply