> Are they experiencing being Chinese through sharing the Chinese history, or are they being Chinese through sharing Chinese values? I don't think that'd be a

> Are they experiencing being Chinese through sharing the Chinese history, or are they being Chinese through sharing Chinese values? I don't think that'd be a meaningful distinction for most people. The history is deeply intertwined with the values > Could black people go to China and share those values and experiencing being Chinese or does the fact that black people do not share Chinese history I'm actually not quite sure what "share history" really means in practical terms. Most people don't in a personal capacity connect with historical events.. But the reason you don't see black people "become Chinese" is mostly because the culture is basically too big and deep to integrate with. Maybe a rabid sinophile could learn to live like a local - but that's so exceedingly rare that it'd always be a novelty. Europeans often joke that America doesn't have culture and history , and the reality is that it's pretty bare bones and you can "catch up". Western individualism is easy to swallow and for the rest we're pretty flexible. To give you a more concrete motivating counterexample. I've met American born Chinese in Taiwan - locals always view them as "other" bc they didn't grow up immersed in the culture and history and its always obvious. They ethnically match, but they aren't local