<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # China remains overwhelmingly Han Chinese; the... > China remains overwhelmingly Han Chinese; the United States contains a historically large European-descended population alongside substantial populations of other ancestries; India, Japan, Israel, Nigeria and virtually every other society possess their own demographic histories and forms of continuity. Ethnicity is neither destiny nor an irrelevant embarrassment; it is one real variable inside civilization, and technologies that alter migration, fertility, political power and labor substitution inevitably interact with it. **Source:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War: AI, Demography, and the Civilizational Contest Between America and China]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “China remains overwhelmingly Han Chinese; the United States contains a historically large European-descended population alongside substantial populations of other ancestries; India, Japan, Israel, Nigeria and virtually every other society possess their own demographic histories and forms of continuity. Ethnicity is neither destiny nor an irrelevant embarrassment; it is one real variable inside civilization, and technologies that alter migration, fertility, political power and labor substitution inevitably interact with it.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-china-remains-overwhelmingly-substitution-inevitably-interact ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->