Everybody can become a Chinese

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夷狄之有君，不如华夏之无。

华夏 refers to civilized people who dislike violent. 夷狄 refers to barbaric people who use force to determine who is right; the more powerful one is always right.

华夏 is not necessarily referring to Han Chinese. In fact, anybody can adopt the culture of 华夏 and call himself/herself a Chinese. Anybody who dislike violent should be similarly treated like a Chinese.

夷狄而华夏者,则华夏之;华夏而夷狄者,则夷狄之。If an individual from a barbaric country have well manners like a civilized Chinese, we must recognize him/her as a civilized Chinese. If an individual from a civilized Chinese country have bad manners like a person from barbaric country, we must consider him/her as a barbarian.

夷狄之有君，不如华夏之无。Barbaric people with a government or king is worst than a civilized Chinese country without government or king. Barbaric culture is bad for its people and its neighbors. A civilized Chinese country without government or king may be chaotic but the people will self-regulate and live a life not worst than a barbaric country.

Chinese culture does not belong to people of Chinese country. Chinese culture belong to all civilized people of the world. The so-called Chinese culture is not the real Chinese culture; it is only named as Chinese culture. Chinese culture originated from Yi Jing (易经) or the Book of Change. That means the real Chinese culture is evolving constantly; it is simple (简易), it is changing all the time (变易), but there are certain elements of it that never change (不易).