How Using WeChat Can Help You Go Back to Your Roots When You're Not a Chinese?

In our previous article, we talked about the one and only reason to use WeChat is to go back to our Chinese roots.  In that article (you can read it at here), I mentioned that being an ethnic Chinese, it is important to know and live the Chinese culture. 

The other day my friend Divandran, who's has roots in India, asked me how can he as an Indian go back to his Indian roots with WeChat, a predominantly Chinese tool.  I told him, "Yes, of course, you have Chinese roots in your blood".  He was shocked! 

We all know that the word 'Chinese' is not a racial or political term. In fact, if you look at China's history you will realize that throughout its 5,000 years of unbroken civilisation, there are many non-Chinese that invaded and ruled China. Some even established large dynasties lasting several hundred years, like the Jurchen's Jin Dynasty (109 years), Mongolian's Yuan Dynasty (97 years) and Manchurian's Qing Dynasty (268 years).

If you looked at Chinese's cuisine today you'll realize that it has many elements of food from non-China, like the hot and spicy food in Sichuan. Many Chinese customs like the clothing, language, religion, music and even form of government (Communism) have many elements of non-Chinese.  

So you can say that the word 'Chinese' is not really a race or culture but humanity that has survived for over 5,000 years. So when we say going back to your Chinese roots, we are referring to your 'Chinese' roots as a human, not Chinese as a race.  Indeed we humans have the same roots, deep-rooted in humanity.  I sincerely believe that using WeChat can help you go back to your humanity roots. 

Written by Andy Ng, a WeChat Trainer whose courses have now gone international and into the cyberspace.