Probably because is an ethnicity and nationality. There are ethnic Chinese people all over the world and a few countries and regions are made of a majority of ethnic Chinese but are not related to China. Calling them the same thing is playing into the PRC’s “all ethnic Chinese pledge their allegiance to China” nonsense.
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InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
China scientists
So, Chinese scientists?
pycorax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
saimen@feddit.org 1 year ago
Isn’t that true for every (older) country though?
pycorax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Perhaps but I haven’t encountered that myself. I’m ethnic Chinese that’s a citizen of another ethnic Chinese majority nation so I’ve encountered this specific type a lot more.
Netux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isreal like that game of pretend. They believe anti zionist Jews are traitors.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.
pycorax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The reverse, however, isn’t true. It may be somewhat understandable but not entirely reasonable to assume someone who is Chinese is from China which is what I’m trying to say.
realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think it’s a slightly different connotation. “China scientists” infers scientists residing in China while not presuming their ethnicity, while “Chinese scientists” implies their ethnicity but not their location.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You literally never hear “America scientists” even if some of them might be from another country. Same with every single other country I can think of, except China.
realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
US scientists works in the same way.
liquidparasyte@pawb.social 1 year ago
Real talk, why is discussion around people and subjects in China so fucking weird?
If it’s not referring to the entire population when it only applies to the government or a subset of them as a global “the Chinese” or doing silly shit like “China scientists” everyone’s grammatical skills suddenly tank when even broaching a topic even tangential to the PRC.
Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 1 year ago
No, it’s people who study fine tableware.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
muhyb@programming.dev 1 year ago
Him legend.
Mooseford@lemmy.today 1 year ago
No they are people who study the China Science.
DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Seriously, for me a “China scientist” is someone doing research on China, like a space scientist would do research on astronomy and similar. But I’m not a native English speaker, so, idk
simplejack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Someone doing research on China is a chiologist.
Same as someone doing research on biology is a biologist.
hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Biology -> biolog -> biologist
China -> chin -> chinist?
realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The wording of the headline would be different if it were trying to convey that.
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Chientists
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 year ago
(acts confused in French)