No they are people who study the China Science.
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InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
China scientists
So, Chinese scientists?
Mooseford@lemmy.today 2 months ago
realitista@lemm.ee 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
US scientists works in the same way.
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Netux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isreal like that game of pretend. They believe anti zionist Jews are traitors.
saimen@feddit.org 2 months ago
Isn’t that true for every (older) country though?
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
liquidparasyte@pawb.social 2 months 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.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
muhyb@programming.dev 2 months ago
Him legend.
Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 2 months ago
No, it’s people who study fine tableware.
DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 2 months ago
Someone doing research on China is a chiologist.
Same as someone doing research on biology is a biologist.
hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Biology -> biolog -> biologist
China -> chin -> chinist?
realitista@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The wording of the headline would be different if it were trying to convey that.
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Chientists
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 2 months ago
(acts confused in French)