AskReddit 内の TjTheProphet によるリンク What question do you always get asked when you tell people where you're from?
[–]MushroomMountain123 5ポイント 2日前*
did you or anyone in your community consider yourself Chinese
To an extant. I considered myself Chinese, as did my mother who also grew up in China. But, we also recognize that we are not ethnically Han. The community around us also recognized us as Chinese, but not Han, as long as we explained that we were descendant of immigrants and not recent immigrants ourselves.
as far as you know, do the ethnic Russians in China assimilate well in terms of language and culture
As far as I know, which honestly isn't very well, yes. The only other ethnic Russians I knew in China in person was my family. We did not live in a "Russia town" or other such ethnic enclave. There are many Russians in the North, and they are occasionally featured on Chinese TV. They speak Mandarin fluently, they celebrate Chinese holidays, etc.
it isn't exactly known by the world as a "melting pot" kind of country, and I've always been curious what kind of self identities those minority groups tend to have, especially the minorities who are ethnically very different from the Han Chinese.
China generally speaking has no problems with accepting non-Han native minorities as "Chinese". It's just that there's so few non-Han minorities that they aren't very prominent, giving the impression that China is not a "melting pot". If you add a drop of soy sauce to a gallon of water, it's still going to mix together, but it won't change the color of the water significantly. China is actually a pretty good melting pot, as long as minorities consider themselves Chinese. Hence many minority groups will consider themselves to be "Chinese" but not "Han". Minorities are in many ways encouraged to celebrate and promote their unique cultures, arts, music, etc. The problem comes when some minorities, like the Uyghurs or Tibetans, consider themselves to be "not Chinese", and try to secede. The government will take a hard stance on that. But if you successfully Sinicize, the government will have no problems with you.
