Shiny, Happy People

A new Chinese commercial has happy Muslims and Han Chinese, donning matching yellow polo shirts and singing: “We are all part of the same family.” This ad brought to you by China’s “relentless propaganda campaign” to gloss over the ethnic rioting in Xinjiang, Associated Press reported. FYI: The 1991 R.E.M. song “Shiny, Happy People” has […]

A new Chinese commercial has happy Muslims and Han Chinese, donning matching yellow polo shirts and singing: “We are all part of the same family.”

This ad brought to you by China’s “relentless propaganda campaign” to gloss over the ethnic rioting in Xinjiang, Associated Press reported.

FYI: The 1991 R.E.M. song “Shiny, Happy People” has been rumored to be about Chinese propaganda in the wake of the Tiananmen Square debacle.


(Here’s a shameless plug: check out our Q & A with Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled mother figure of China’s Muslim minority.)

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