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Official attitudes toward minority peoples are inconsistent, if not contradictory. Since 1949 policies toward minorities have fluctuated between tolerance and coercive attempts to impose Han standards. Tolerant periods have been marked by subsidized material benefits intended to win loyalty, while coercive periods such as the Cultural Revolution have attempted to eradicate "superstition" and to overthrow insufficiently radical or insufficiently nationalistic local leaders.
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Cultural Revolution was a disaster to all ethnic groups in China, including Han Chinese. It tried to impose Communist standard to all ethnic groups, not impose Han standard to other ethnic groups. In RPC history, the government never had tried to convert other ethnic groups to Han.