In English, ethnic French are not forced to call themselves ethnic “Gauls”, just because there are ethnic minorities in France; ethnic Czech are not forced to call themselves ethnic “Bohemians”, just because there are ethnic minorities in Czech Republic; ethnic Romanians are not forced to call themselves ethnic “Dacians”, just because there are ethnic minorities in Romania; ethnic Turks are not forced to call themselves ethnic “Anatolians”, just because there are ethnic minorities in Turkey
Having been living with our exclusive English ethnonym “Chinese” since 1577 CE (48 and 250 years earlier than when “Czechs” and “Romanians” were first used as ethnonyms in English; 36, 48, 100, 170, 231 and 255 years earlier than when “Mongols”, “Koreans” “Uyghurs”, “Tibetans”, “Thai” and “Kazakhs” were first used as ethnonyms in English; 199 years earlier than when the United States was declared independent), why should we ethnic Chinese be forced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to call ourselves ethnic “Han” exclusively in English, just because there are ethnic minorities in China to pretend there is a synthetic pseudo-ethnicity above us all?
We are the namesake of our own country China, just like other titular nations all over the Eurasian continent
If we would be called ethnic “Han”, if China were only a decentralised multi-ethnic political shell like the New World country United States without a natural ethnic indentity presiding its derived civic indentity, why in English wouldn’t you call our Chinese language as “Han” language; why in English wouldn’t you call our Chinese characters as “Han” characters?
We are the Chinese nation (ethnic Chinese); not all Chinese citizens (Chitizens) belongs to the Chinese nation
Chinese ≠ Chitizens Kazakhs ≠ Kazakhstanis Malays ≠ Malaysians
Interethnic harmony ≠ Identity robbery
Defending our ethnic identity is defending our own country
Similar intentional identity robberies against ethnic Chinese also happen to our titular ethnonyms in Chinese language. The English part of this homepage is intended for English language readers to let more people understand why we are here. Nevertheless we are committed to halt the robberies and heal the damages in both Chinese and English languages
