Falun Gong teaches that racial groups were created by various divine beings—and that mixed races are ‘pitiable’

Falun Gong teaches that racial groups were created by various divine beings—and that mixed races are ‘pitiable.’

Li Hongzhi holds the view that “different divine beings created their own different peoples,” and in history, those divine beings have all along been taking care of the people they created. “White people are white people, black people are black people, and people of the yellow race are people of the yellow race,” says Li. “Any ethnicity in the world is a race that corresponds with the Heavens.”

Li considers children of mixed race to be pitiable since “after mixing blood people no longer have their correspondence to the divine beings in the Heavens.” People of mixed race, according to Li, will lead pitiable lives: “The divine beings above won’t recognize a region where there is a concentration of mixed races, so normally the people in such a region are destitute and have a hard life.”