China, for over two thousand years, has acted sort of like a cultural SCP, absorbing more and more of the globe because people recognize Being Chinese as a set of culutral norms is actually really good. This is just furthering that trend. Chinese isn’t a race, it’s a way of life. The book Chinese Cosmopolitanism by Shuchen Xiang covers this process well.
China, for over two thousand years, has acted sort of like a cultural SCP, absorbing more and more of the globe because people recognize Being Chinese as a set of culutral norms is actually really good. This is just furthering that trend. Chinese isn’t a race, it’s a way of life. The book Chinese Cosmopolitanism by Shuchen Xiang covers this process well.