Comment by coupdejarnac

Colloquially, when Chinese people refer to Xinjiangren, they mean non-Han Muslim people. I heard a lot of casual racism directed towards them while I lived in China. Chinese are being "inclusive" because A. they are ignorant, B. they assume most people are Han, with the occasional minority that looks mostly Han anyway, and C. they associate a region with ethnicity or local culture.

All street interviews that are shown in media parrot official state talking points. If you don't understand that, I don't know what to tell you.

I think it's actually a shame that you now live in a society with free access to information but choose to take state media at face value.