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People are people. Blaming anything on how they look is silly. It's like blaming inanimate objects.
That said, there are defining issues with the Chinese (I mean actual Chinese people, in China - not people with such ancestry) beyond having a certain ethnic look. They're communist slaves living under wretched oppression, without freedom of speech. While being Chinese doesn't make anyone a bad person, I imagine living under constant tyranny would and therefore your impressions could be entirely valid and yet not race based. Now that you are home, you feel guilty and want to make excuses for their government instilled cowardice, perhaps? Note again, I'm not refering to merely "Chinese people" but specifically "people living in China", the latter having nothing to do with 'race'.
Culture and government (to a large extent) are choices and can be condemned by outsiders as well as insiders, ethically. Condemning a race is unethical. Culturally speaking, I don't buy into any of that "different but equal" crap. Some cultures and/or government systems suck.
That said, there are defining issues with the Chinese (I mean actual Chinese people, in China - not people with such ancestry) beyond having a certain ethnic look. They're communist slaves living under wretched oppression, without freedom of speech. While being Chinese doesn't make anyone a bad person, I imagine living under constant tyranny would and therefore your impressions could be entirely valid and yet not race based. Now that you are home, you feel guilty and want to make excuses for their government instilled cowardice, perhaps? Note again, I'm not refering to merely "Chinese people" but specifically "people living in China", the latter having nothing to do with 'race'.
Culture and government (to a large extent) are choices and can be condemned by outsiders as well as insiders, ethically. Condemning a race is unethical. Culturally speaking, I don't buy into any of that "different but equal" crap. Some cultures and/or government systems suck.
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