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Probably the latter. It's called "Hanification" 汉化, "han hua" where "han" refers to the Han ethnicity (not Chinese national identity which would instead be "zho

• thratchnee 8y ago
  中 is literally the word for middle or center, by itself it does not refer to the country. The term used to refer to national identity is 中华, which is the phrase used in China's official name. I'm confounded by how you could make such a bad mistake and still speak so confidently of Chinese racial relations. Imagine someone claiming the English term for British is simply the letter "U" and then going on to describe gentrification in Detroit. >The phrase has existed for a very long time and it is an idea that people treat "seriously" like you see it in officially sanctioned writing Complete non sequitur. The existance of a term for something does not mean that it's supported. If you actually read some of these "sanctioned writing"s you'd realize that the term is referred to in a negative sense in the same way the word gentrification is used. In fact it's mainly used in a historical context.