Protests rock China’s Inner Mongolia Region as Communist Party of China regime brought in a new policy that the ethnic Mongolians fear will wipe out their culture.
As per new development, the Communist regime has unilaterally decided to impose Mandarin over Mongolian in the schools by mandating the teaching of main subjects like politics, history, and language and literature in Mandarin instead of Mongolian.
This has led to protests in this region which have never felt comfortable living under the Chinese single-party communist regime.
China has already gone on a severe crackdown against Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
Many Uygurs are in concentration camps but as far as the state is concerned, these are ‘education camps’. China has also imposed its will on the people of Tibet whose culture the communist regime has been trying to systematically erase.
Now the same rule is being applied as China is forcibly changing the curriculum and mandating the schools in Inner Mongolia to teach the three core subjects of politics, history, and language and literature in Mandarin and not in Mongolian anymore.
As per China’s plan, beginning from September, language and literature subject will be taught in Mandarin. From next year onwards, subjects on morality and law which comprise politics will be taught in Mandarin, following which from 2022 onwards history subject will be taught in the national Chinese language as well.
The immediate aftermath was parents staging protests and schools were also boycotted. The protesting parents called this a blatant attempt by China to wipe out Mongolian language, culture and identity and replace it with the majority Han culture.