{"id":153125,"date":"2020-07-21T03:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T01:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/21\/the-perfect-uighur-outgoing-and-hard-working-but-still-not-safe-from-chinas-camps\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T03:39:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T01:39:31","slug":"the-perfect-uighur-outgoing-and-hard-working-but-still-not-safe-from-chinas-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153125","title":{"rendered":"The &#039;perfect Uighur&#039;: outgoing and hard working \u2013 but still not safe from China&#039;s camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing claims its re-education camps in Xinjiang are needed to combat Islamic terrorism, but Dilara\u2019s experiences tell a different storyBy the standards of Chinese officialdom, Dilara is surely the perfect minority. She doesn\u2019t wear a headscarf. She drinks beer. Pretty and outgoing, she socialises often with Chinese friends.If you closed your eyes and heard her speak Mandarin, you would never guess she had greenish eyes and brown hair, that she isn\u2019t Han \u2013 the dominant ethnic group in China \u2013 but Uighur, a Muslim, Turkic-speaking people who call Xinjiang province, in the far west of China, their homeland. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/21\/the-perfect-uighur-outgoing-and-hard-working-but-still-not-safe-from-chinas-camps\" target=\"_blank\">The &#039;perfect Uighur&#039;: outgoing and hard working \u2013 but still not safe from China&#039;s camps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing claims its re-education camps in Xinjiang are needed to combat Islamic terrorism, but Dilara\u2019s experiences tell a different storyBy the standards of Chinese officialdom, Dilara is surely the perfect minority. She doesn\u2019t wear a headscarf. She drinks beer. Pretty and outgoing, she socialises often with Chinese friends.If you closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}