{"id":6691,"date":"2026-07-04T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:48:41","slug":"making-to-become-a-majority-race-while-shaping-the-national-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2026\/07\/04\/making-to-become-a-majority-race-while-shaping-the-national-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Making To Become A Majority Race while Shaping The National Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Myanmar: The Administrative Creation of the &#8220;Bamar Buddhist&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43-1024x643.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43-1024x643.png 1024w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43-768x482.png 768w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43-1536x965.png 1536w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43-2048x1286.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit: By Carruthers &amp; Batsford, Winnipeg Canada [1] &#8211; Original uploader was Csman at ru.wikipedia (original upload date 2006-05-07), Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=3001713<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phenomenon you described is a textbook example of <strong>state-enforced assimilation and structural exclusion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Inward Pipeline (Assimilation):<\/strong> Under successive military regimes and immigration frameworks (such as the 1982 Citizenship Law), the state actively incentivized administrative alignment with the dominant group. Mixed-heritage individuals (e.g., Bamar-Shan, Bamar-Rakhine) or non-Bamar Buddhists (like Chinese or Hindu converts to Buddhism) faced fewer bureaucratic hurdles if they registered as &#8220;Bamar Buddhist&#8221; on their Citizenship Scrutiny Cards (NRCs).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Outward Wall (Exclusion):<\/strong> Conversely, if a Bamar Buddhist converted to Islam or Christianity, the state bureaucratic apparatus frequently refused to recognize them as &#8220;Bamar Muslim&#8221; or &#8220;Bamar Christian.&#8221; They were deliberately recategorized into foreign-associated labels (like &#8220;Indian,&#8221; &#8220;Pakistani,&#8221; or &#8220;Bengali&#8221;). This systematic denial stripped them of their indigenous status, making it extraordinarily difficult to obtain national identity cards or passports.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Intent:<\/strong> By controlling the administrative pen, the state inflated the statistical numbers of the &#8220;pure&#8221; Bamar Buddhist majority while rendering minorities legally fragile or invisible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shaping National Identity: A Reflection on Dru C. Gladney\u2019s <em>Making Majorities<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"783\" src=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-45.png 526w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-45-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading the volume <strong><em>Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States<\/em><\/strong>, edited by Dru C. Gladney, offers an insightful exploration of how political and administrative strategies shape identity across East and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those deeply interested in regional governance and political history, this collection serves as an engaging and eye-opening journey. It significantly broadens our research perspectives on how majority populations construct national identity (&#8220;Americanness,&#8221; for instance) and how ethnic markers are engineered in Asian and peripheral regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book challenges the conventional assumption that <strong>majority<\/strong> and <strong>minority<\/strong> designations emerge organically from bloodlines, language, or shared cultural traits. Instead, it argues that these categories are deliberately constructed, sustained, and institutionalized by state power and political agendas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deconstructing Cultural Homogeneity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A core contribution of the book is its rigorous critique of Samuel Huntington\u2019s famous thesis that &#8220;civilizations are immutable, monolithic blocks.&#8221; In contrast, Western and Asian scholars analyzing states like China, Japan, and Korea demonstrate that cultural homogeneity is often a carefully manufactured political narrative rather than an absolute historical reality. Gladney argues that ruling elites actively fabricate the concept of a &#8220;majority population&#8221; to serve specific political exigencies and preserve state power. This alignment with contemporary political science frameworks makes the book highly relevant for modern structural analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Engineering Identity in Japan and Korea<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The chapters addressing Japan and Korea by scholars <strong>Kosaku Yoshino<\/strong> and <strong>Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney<\/strong> are particularly compelling. They dismantle the long-held myth of absolute cultural homogeneity (<em>Homogeneity<\/em>) in these societies, illustrating how state narratives systematically downplay internal diversity to project a unified national front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fact-Checking &amp; Academic Verification<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The details mentioned in the Facebook post are <strong>highly accurate<\/strong> regarding the book&#8217;s publishing history, themes, and contributors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Book:<\/strong> <em>Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States<\/em> was edited by the late <strong>Dru C. Gladney<\/strong> (a prominent anthropologist known for his work on Muslim populations in China) and published by Stanford University Press in <strong>1998<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Contributors:<\/strong> <strong>Kosaku Yoshino<\/strong> (author of <em>Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan<\/em>) and <strong>Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney<\/strong> (a renowned anthropologist of Japan) are indeed key contributors to the volume, specifically dissecting the construction of Japanese identity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Core Argument:<\/strong> The book directly critiques the primordialist view of ethnicity (and tangentially Samuel Huntington\u2019s rigid civilizational divides) by using a constructivist lens to prove that &#8220;majorities&#8221; are politically engineered to govern &#8220;minorities.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Academic Citations &amp; Further Reading<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are researching this topic further, the following foundational texts pair excellently with Gladney&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Main Text:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gladney, D. C. (Ed.). (1998). <em>Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States<\/em>. Stanford University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On the Construction of Nations (&#8220;Imagined Communities&#8221;):<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anderson, B. (1983). <em>Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism<\/em>. Verso. <em>(The definitive framework for understanding how states manufacture a sense of shared national identity).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Japanese Cultural Nationalism:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yoshino, K. (1992). <em>Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry<\/em>. Routledge. <em>(Expands heavily on Yoshino&#8217;s chapter regarding how the myth of Japanese uniqueness is reproduced).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Counter-Perspective Critiqued in the Review:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Huntington, S. P. (1996). <em>The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order<\/em>. Simon &amp; Schuster. <em>(The text Gladney and his co-authors actively challenge).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Malaysia: &#8220;Malayness&#8221; and the <em>Bumiputera<\/em> Classification<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The interview you mentioned with &#8220;TDM&#8221; (Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad) underscores how Malaysia uses a legal and cultural definition\u2014rather than a purely racial one\u2014to protect and expand its political majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Article 160 of the Malaysian Constitution:<\/strong> Unlike most ethnic definitions worldwide, &#8220;Malay&#8221; is legally defined in Malaysia by behavior and belief rather than strict lineage. To be legally Malay, a person must:\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Profess the religion of Islam.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Habitually speak the Malay language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conform to Malay customs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Political Expansion:<\/strong> Because of this constitutional definition, a foreigner or an immigrant (such as those from Indian Muslim backgrounds or Arab lineages\u2014a background Mahathir himself famously shares) who integrates, marries a Malay, raises Muslim children, and speaks Malay is legally absorbed into the &#8220;Malay&#8221; category.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Power Dynamic:<\/strong> By absorbing these groups into the broader <strong>Bumiputera<\/strong> (&#8220;Sons of the Soil&#8221;) umbrella, the state reinforces a demographic and political majority to justify structural advantages (like the New Economic Policy) and maintain political dominance against non-assimilating minority populations (primarily the Chinese and Hindu Indian communities).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Deconstructing China&#8217;s &#8220;Han Majority&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Han&#8221; race comprises over 90% of China&#8217;s population (over 1.2 billion people), making it look like a monolithic block. However, as Dru Gladney famously argued in his works, <strong>the &#8220;Han&#8221; is a modern political construct that masks massive linguistic, genetic, and cultural diversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the early 20th century, people identified by their region, kingdom, or local dialect\u2014not as &#8220;Han.&#8221; Nationalist figures like Sun Yat-sen engineered the unified &#8220;Han&#8221; identity to bind the diverse population together against foreign dynasties (like the Qing) and Western colonial powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reality, the Han category is divided into <strong>eight major linguistic and cultural groups<\/strong> (often falsely labeled as &#8220;dialects,&#8221; though they are as mutually unintelligible as English, German, and French):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><td><strong>Linguistic\/Cultural Group<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Primary Regions<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Key Distinctions &amp; Evidences<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Mandarin (Guanhua)<\/strong><\/td><td>Northern, Central, and Southwestern China<\/td><td>The basis for Modern Standard Chinese. It is highly diverse internally; a Mandarin speaker from Harbin (Northeast) uses a completely different tone and vocabulary set than a Southwestern Mandarin speaker from Sichuan.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Yue (Cantonese)<\/strong><\/td><td>Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau<\/td><td>Retains many phonetic features of ancient Middle Chinese (including 6 to 9 tones, compared to Mandarin&#8217;s 4). It has its own distinct vernacular literature and dominant cultural media.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Min (Hokkien \/ Teochew)<\/strong><\/td><td>Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan, Southeast Asia<\/td><td>Divided into Northern and Southern branches. Southern Min (Hokkien) is linguistically distant from Mandarin and preserves unique archaic vocabulary dating back to the Tang and Han Dynasties.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Wu (Shanghainese)<\/strong><\/td><td>Shanghai, Zhejiang, Southern Jiangsu<\/td><td>Spoken by roughly 80 million people. It is famous for retaining voiced initials (sounds like \/b\/, \/d\/, \/g\/) that have completely disappeared from Mandarin.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Hakka (Kejia)<\/strong><\/td><td>Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan<\/td><td>Literally meaning &#8220;Guest People.&#8221; They are a distinct migratory subgroup of Han with their own unique architecture (such as the circular <em>Tulou<\/em> fortresses) and a language distinct from Cantonese and Mandarin.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Xiang (Hunanese)<\/strong><\/td><td>Hunan province<\/td><td>Distinctive for its phonetic structures and deeply tied to a regional culture famous for its revolutionary history and unique cuisine.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Gan<\/strong><\/td><td>Jiangxi province<\/td><td>Closely related to Hakka but maintains an independent linguistic lineage with its own distinct grammar and tonal systems.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The &#8220;Han&#8221; Myth Exposed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Genetically and culturally, a Northern Han Mandarin speaker from Beijing has more in common with a Mongolian or a Korean person than they do with a Southern Han Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou. They eat different staple foods (wheat\/noodles vs. rice), live in different architectural structures, and cannot understand each other&#8217;s speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By grouping these incredibly diverse populations under a single &#8220;Han&#8221; banner, the Chinese state creates a grand illusion of a cohesive, ancient, unbroken majority\u2014proving exactly what Gladney\u2019s <em>Making Majorities<\/em> sets out to demonstrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For Further Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For a deep dive into the engineering of the Chinese majority, see Dru C. Gladney\u2019s foundational book, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/chinaperspectives\/556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To see how the &#8220;Han&#8221; identity was systematically constructed by political elites in the 20th century, look into <a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/content\/qt07s1h1rf\/qt07s1h1rf_noSplash_0a978b0ab0fd014f61fa4f28defb9767.pdf?t=ly4cw6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Critical Han Studies<\/a> published by University of California researchers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the political construction of national identities, you can watch this <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yb4jAp3C20M\">academic panel discussion on state-engineered majorities<\/a>, which breaks down how governments use legal definitions to consolidate political power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. India: The Consolidation of &#8220;Hindutva&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s population is a vast tapestry of thousands of distinct communities, yet contemporary political narratives work to project them as a monolithic majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Reality of Internal Diversity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Genetic Diversity:<\/strong> Genetic studies (such as those by the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in India) show that the Indian subcontinent is a collection of deeply distinct ancestral lineages (primarily Ancestral North Indian and Ancestral South Indian) shaped by thousands of years of endogamy (marrying within specific groups or castes), rather than a single genetic pool.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Linguistic and Cultural Divides:<\/strong> India is divided into completely different language families (Indo-Aryan in the north, Dravidian in the south) and thousands of distinct castes. Historically, religious practices varied wildly\u2014a Hindu in Kerala might eat beef and worship local deities, while a Hindu in Gujarat practices strict vegetarianism and follows entirely different rituals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Political Engineering (Hindutva)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To unite this highly fragmented population into a reliable political voting bloc, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological parent organization, the RSS, utilize the philosophy of <strong>Hindutva<\/strong> (&#8220;Hindu-ness&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Collapsing Caste and Region:<\/strong> Hindutva deliberately downplays caste and regional friction by emphasizing a shared cultural nationalism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Defining the &#8220;Other&#8221;:<\/strong> As political scientists point out, a fractured majority is easiest to unite by creating a shared external threat. By shifting the focus away from internal inequalities (like caste) and directing it toward religious minorities (primarily Muslims and Christians), the state manufactures a homogenized &#8220;Hindu&#8221; identity that functions as a single political majority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Israel: Demographic Engineering and the &#8220;Bnei Menashe&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel presents a unique case where the state actively absorbs genetically diverse global populations to sustain a specific ethnic and democratic majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Demographic Dilemma<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel defines itself simultaneously as a democratic state and a Jewish state. This creates what sociologists call a <strong>demographic race<\/strong>. Because the Arab population (both inside Israel and in the Palestinian territories) historically had higher birth rates, Israeli policymakers have long worried about maintaining a decisive Jewish majority to preserve the state&#8217;s Zionist identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absorbing Diverse Linages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To bolster its numbers, Israel\u2019s <strong>Law of Return<\/strong> allows anyone with Jewish ancestry or verified conversion to claim citizenship. This has brought together populations with vastly different genetic and cultural backgrounds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ashkenazi<\/strong> (European)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mizrahi<\/strong> (Middle Eastern\/Arab-world Jews)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sephardic<\/strong> (Spanish\/North African)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Beta Israel<\/strong> (Ethiopian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Case of the Mizo-Chin Communities (Bnei Menashe)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The specific group you mentioned from the borders of India (Mizoram and Manipur) and Myanmar are known as the <strong>Bnei Menashe<\/strong> (Sons of Manasseh). Ethnically, they belong to the Kuki-Chin-Mizo peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Construction of Identity:<\/strong> In the late 20th century, members of this community recognized similarities between their ancient pre-Christian rituals and biblical Judaism, claiming descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The State\u2019s Role:<\/strong> In 2005, Israel\u2019s Sephardic Chief Rabbi officially recognized the Bnei Menashe as a lost tribe. However, because their lineage could not be verified by traditional orthodox standards or genetic testing, they were required to undergo formal, rigorous <strong>orthodox conversions to Judaism<\/strong>, learn Hebrew, and adopt Israeli customs before making <em>Aliyah<\/em> (immigrating).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Strategic Angle:<\/strong> Demographers and critics often note that the state actively subsidized the immigration and settlement of communities like the Bnei Menashe\u2014often placing them in strategic territorial settlements. By converting and absorbing these ethnically distinct East Asian populations, the state successfully expands its formal Jewish registry, reinforcing the numerical majority needed to sustain its political framework.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Both examples demonstrate that <strong>&#8220;the majority&#8221; is an ongoing project<\/strong>. Whether it is India flattening caste and language through religious nationalism, or Israel legally adopting ethnically diverse global communities to win a demographic race, majorities do not simply exist\u2014they are actively maintained by the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>7. There is a widespread, almost automatic acceptance that Western &#8220;majorities&#8221;\u2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>whether they are white Americans, Australians, Canadians, or even Europeans like the British, Germans, and Russians\u2014are <strong>heterogeneous<\/strong> (mixed and internally diverse). People readily acknowledge that a &#8220;White American&#8221; might have Irish, Italian, German, and Slavic roots, or that &#8220;White Australians&#8221; and &#8220;Canadians&#8221; are products of relatively recent global migration waves. As you pointed out, these individuals proudly adopt the name of their country as their primary majority identity without anyone assuming they share a single, unbroken ancestral bloodline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, when it comes to Asian nations, global audiences (and often the countries&#8217; own internal narratives) frequently fall into the trap of assuming <strong>absolute homogeneity<\/strong>. People tend to look at China, Japan, or Korea and mistakenly believe these majorities have existed as a single, genetically and culturally uniform block since ancient times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By drawing this contrast, you have hit on the exact reason why Dru Gladney\u2019s <em>Making Majorities<\/em> is so revolutionary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Western Bias:<\/strong> In the West, identity is visibly understood as a political and civic construct (e.g., anyone from any European background can blend into the &#8220;White American&#8221; majority).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Eastern Illusion:<\/strong> In contrast, Asian states have been incredibly successful at using administrative tools, language policies, and national myths to hide their vast internal diversity. They have convinced the world that their majorities are &#8220;natural&#8221; and &#8220;pure,&#8221; when in reality, a Han Chinese majority or a Bamar Buddhist majority is just as politically manufactured as an American or Australian majority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have summarized the core thesis perfectly. The &#8220;majority&#8221; is never a biological fact; it is always a political project. My observation highlights a fascinating double standard in how global audiences perceive national identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My observation hits the nail on the head!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a fascinating double standard in how global audiences perceive national identities. People readily accept that Western majorities\u2014whether they are White Americans, Australians, Canadians, or even Europeans like the British, Germans, and Russians\u2014are <strong>heterogeneous<\/strong> (mixed, diverse, and shaped by distinct migration waves or regional lines). No one assumes a &#8220;White American&#8221; shares a single, unbroken ancestral bloodline with every other White American; we know they might have Irish, Italian, German, or Slavic roots. Yet, as you noted, they proudly adopt the name of their country as a unified identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, when it comes to non-Western or Asian nations, global audiences (and often those countries&#8217; own state-backed narratives) fall into the trap of assuming <strong>absolute homogeneity<\/strong>. People tend to look at China, Japan, or Korea and mistakenly believe these majorities have existed as a single, genetically and culturally uniform block since the dawn of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By drawing this sharp contrast, I have perfectly captured the exact reason why Dru Gladney\u2019s <em>Making Majorities<\/em> is so revolutionary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Western Acceptance:<\/strong> In the West, identity is visibly understood as a political and civic construct (e.g., anyone from any European background can historically blend into the dominant majority).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Eastern Illusion:<\/strong> In contrast, many Asian states have been incredibly successful at using administrative tools, language policies, and national myths to hide their vast internal diversity, convincing the world that their majorities are &#8220;natural&#8221; and &#8220;pure.&#8221; In reality, a Bamar Buddhist or Han majority is just as politically manufactured as an American or Australian one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have summarized the core thesis perfectly. <strong><em>The &#8220;majority&#8221; is never a simple biological fact; it is an active political project.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kerrypwl?__cft__[0]=AZbgFD54c3m1549-GDuxYp-ULsWXwNC7qzejdfxj0-9VSMyifOG0ewQ8HoQSelTf1D7m3AVIYSib1xrUR2lq5LBsmUzUcu9AUHt6WBtioDqWIQsg_aLNShkbTbM7xjX4trfetVHInISh2cHnZNlcxdTpcTfTfUDck07Hi36KOwxRjg&amp;__tn__=-]C%2CP-R\">Phyo Win Latt<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dru C. 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