There are several official buffs that you get for being an ethnic minority in China. I'm not talking about greater agility or night vision, or plus damage to the undead. I'm talking about points automatically added to test scores when attending school, no limit on how many children you can have. Additionally, universities have minority enrollment quotas, so they lower their standards to admit the required number. Not exactly affirmative action, but close. Let's think about it this way. In the United States, there is also a group of improverished minorities of turkic/mongoloid descent. That's right, the Native Americans. I'd say before gambling, they really didn't do that well either, perhaps not better than the author's description of Uighers.