Patriotism, nationalism, and christian nationalism are three ideologies we see in the world. Firstly, patriotism is the most respectful out of these. Patriotism is a feeling of love and pride for your country. Patriotism could also be toward your homeland or ethnic group. Nationalism is identification with a specific nation and support for its interest, especially to the exclusion or detriment to other nations. Nationalism can become dangerous because many times it includes excluding people like those of a different race or ethnic group. Similarly, Christian nationalism encompasses many of the ideologies of nationalism but also includes the formation of a Christian state. Christian nationalism is most prominent in the US and believes since we were formed as a Christian country there should be Christian values and beliefs influencing the government. Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” originally advocated the establishment of socio-cultural ties and respectful relations with the country’s neighboring states; this was pushed aside in favor of loyalty and devotion to the Chinese state. Now he has developed a becomingly ugly form of nationalism in China. With foreign ministers cutting ties with other countries and focusing on building China to become a more powerful state. There is also an ethnic cleansing going on within the country. The ethnic majority of China is the Han. The Uyghurs are an ethnic group of about 12 million people who live in Xinjiang. The group is mostly muslim and see themselves ethnically closest with other central asian groups. In recent decades, there has been a massive migration of Han Chinese (Chinese ethnic majority) to Xinjiang, allegedly organized by the state to dilute the minority there. China has also been accused of persecuting Muslim clerics and banning religious practices in the region, as well as destroying mosques and tombs. The government has also allegedly set up concentration style camps to imprison and torture the Uyghur peoples. Uyghur activists fear the group’s culture is in danger of
being destroyed.
Additionally, economic inequality can be measured in several ways. A commonly used approach is the “Gini” coefficient, which estimates the income distribution in a country where 0 is equal and 1 is the worst possible result. The latest official data from China is from 2020, when the country had a Gini of 0.47, which is considered a highly unequal economy. However, experts say China’s official figures underestimate the problem. Using additional survey data, economists from Cornell University and Peking University released another Gini estimate for 2018, which found China’s inequality rate to be slightly above 0.52. China has an upper class that holds a significant amount of power and many lower class laborers who lack representation.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/05/how-chinese-nationalism-is-changing/