> I believe this aspect of Chinese culture Well, for me, it's just like to saying "Oh, Chinese people just do that sometimes". It's a quite ignorant view actu

> I believe this aspect of Chinese culture Well, for me, it's just like to saying "Oh, Chinese people just do that sometimes". It's a quite ignorant view actually, because when you look at Taiwan and Hongkong, it's very easy to found that Chinese people can adapt to many systems rather than the 'good' old authoritarianism. Mainland China current running by the Communist Party is actually because of many historical reason, rather than a choice of Chinese people. Also, one thing some people from the west don't understand that the Chinese government lead by the CCP also generates many many benefits to the Chinese people, and doing a not-bad job protecting their citizens. And those benefits are not easy to be ditched away. Another thing that I want to mention is, China will never be 'Westernized', it will instead to be 'Modernized'. And you can clearly see modernization everywhere in China during these 7 years. In fact, for me, the word 'Westernized' is pretty arrogant: It assumes the 'West' should set the rule and standard for the world. And you just can't assume that, just like you can't assume all your neighbors one day will follow the exact schedule like you do. They just don't. Also, about Han[0]'s superiority: First thing is, you maybe don't know that the Chinese government provide better benefits[1] to those ethnic minority groups than Han people did. As a Han myself, I personally don't feel like that I'm superior than others. In fact, start from the kindergarten, we been educated to respect other ethnic groups and at least know what not to. For example: Don't eat pork in front of Hui[2] people. Yes, many people still don't completely understand all those rules or just don't care about it after they grown up, but you can't deny the education is there. Even there is superiority between Han and other ethnic groups, then that would be very similar as in C++ programmer vs PHP programmer, rather than black vs white. Then, about Uyghurs[3]. To be honest, I don't fully understand the problem there. But I think the tight control that the government has implemented there is at some part due some terrorist attacks[4][5][6][7][8](are originated from Xinjiang). And you can think of how many pressure the center government has pushed on Xinjiang's administration, so maybe that's why they did something that not so civilized. I'm not saying it's understandable or forgivable, they are not resolving problem from the root there. What I'm trying to say is: Maybe things happened in Xinjiang was not about ethnic superiority as some west people may think it is. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China#Guarantee_of_rights_and_interests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China#Gua... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Kashgar_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Kashgar_attack [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Tiananmen_Square_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Tiananmen_Square_attack [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack [8] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E5%B9%B4%E6%96%B0%E7%96%86%E7%B3%BB%E5%88%97%E8%A2%AD%E5%87%BB%E6%A1%88 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E5%B9%B4%E6%96%B0%E7%96%8... (No English version available)