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Indeed. People forget that China has twice the population of United States and European Union combined. It's often silly to treat them all as one uniform group.



I once had a friend say something about how the Chinese valued hard work. Then I asked him what cultures don't value hard work. He squirmed as he started ticking off a list of countries whose populations are predominantly black/Latino...


Hence the need to separate the concepts of culture and race, rather than using them interchangeably the way we do now.


A group's uniformity has nothing to do with its size.


You're bind-minded




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