Database Entry: Ethnic Unity: Rockaby--A Gul Rocked into the Arms of Mr. Right
Forced Assimilation Promotion of interethnic marriage

Ethnic Unity: Rockaby--A Gul Rocked into the Arms of Mr. Right

March 22, 2019
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Inside the village banquet hall, everyone was chatting and laughing, singing and dancing. Accompanied by happy music and the sounds of singing, everyone took part in joyful dancing, meshrep. On March 15 [2019], a lad from Sichuan named Chen Anfu and a Xinjiang Flower named Arzugul Tursun held a wedding at a banquet hall in Onsu County Gulawat Village Gulerik Hamlet. The event was jovial, enthusiastic, and lively with nearly 200 attendees.

In terms of the the groom’s and bride’s story…Arigul made acquaintances with a Sichuan lad named Chen Anfu using a What’sApp feature. Chen Anfu is an auxiliary police officer. The began chatting, their ages were right, began showing warmth towards each other, gradually became affectionate [towards each other], fell in love, and finally reaped the sweet fruit of their love and became husband and wife…

The groom excitedly said, “thanks to the village party committee and worked team for holding this grand wedding. I’ve married [my] long-admired Uyghur belle. In the future we will certainly live our days well be good citizens who won’t forget the Party’s favor, will listen to the Party, follow it, respect the law, and protect ethnic unity.

The leader of the work team, Erkin Yunus, told the new bride and groom, “You are the village’s second interethnic marriage since 2019. You’re the pride of this village’s ethnic unity. By holding your wedding, the entire village will construct an atmosphere in which everyone discusses ethnic unity and everyone strives to be a mode of ethnic unity as well as promote the normalization of “ethnic unity one family.”

村宴会厅里,大家有说有笑,载歌载舞。伴着喜庆的乐曲和动听的歌声,人们跳起欢快的跳舞、麦西来甫………3月15日,四川小伙陈安福和新疆姑娘阿尔祖古丽·图尔荪的婚礼在温宿县古勒阿瓦提乡古勒艾日克村一家宴会厅里举行。现场欢声笑语,气氛热烈,热闹非凡,“访惠聚”驻村工作队成员、村干部、村民近200多人参加了婚礼。

陈安福是一名协警,他们很聊得来,年龄也相当,彼此经常嘘寒问暖,渐渐地产生了好感,从虚拟网络到现实生活谈起了恋爱,最终收获了爱的甜果,结为夫妻。

新郎激动地说:“我娶到了心仪的维吾尔族姑娘,以后我们一定好好过日子,不忘报党恩、听党话、跟党走,争当遵纪守法、维护民族团结的好公民。

地区供销社古勒艾日克村“访惠聚”工作队队长艾尔肯·尤努斯对新郎新娘说:“你们是2019年以来村里第二对民汉通婚的新人,是我们村民族团结的骄傲。你们的婚礼,将进一步为全村营造人人讲民族团结、人人争做民族团结模范的浓厚氛围,推进“民族团结一家亲”常态化。

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