Research Of Cross-border Minorities’ Identity In China

During the construction of China’s multinational state, the minorities are endow with double identity as the national citizens and the members of a group, which leads to an obvious double identification, namely the state identification formed during the construction of a multinational state and the ethnic identification to their own nationality formed during their communication with other nationalities. The state identification mostly belongs to political identification while the ethnic identification to cultural identification. With clear boundaries and limits, the two identifications depend on each other without mutual interference.In a multinational state, several nationalities exist together. Therefore, the state has to adjust the relation between the state identification and the ethnic identification of the ethnic minorities by means of institutionalization. The ethnic minorities need to strengthen their identification to the multinational state and shape their own citizenship. At the same time, the state, in the formulation of inter-ethnic political policies, should take the state identification within the political field and spare apace to ethnic identification. That is to say the state can’t contain the cultural development of the minorities in the name of politics.Take Lisu nationality in Danzha Community of Tengchong County in Yunnan province as an example. Generally speaking, they have a high level of state and ethnic identification, and their ethnic identity doesn’t threaten their identification to the state, which convincingly reflects that our ethnic policies have successfully adjust the relation of the two identifications of the minorities in China. However, the low level of performing the civil obligations highlights the limitation of the current ethnic policies in the region. The state identification needs the citizens’active response. Therefore, China’s ethnic policies need to reshape the connotation of state identification. Through adjusting the ethnic policies, strengthen the consciousness of civil obligation of the ethnic minorities, and then promote the minorities’ethnic and state identification to interact benignly.