“...the word “China” in Chinese is Zhong Guo, meaning “center” (Zhong) and “nation/land” (Guo). Chinese people believed that their land was the center of the world, not out of arrogance, but rather out of unawareness of the rest of the world.”
While the article makes some interesting points, this comment underscores the author’s naive grasp of the Chinese and their culture. The Chinese are arrogant, racist, and wildly ethnocentric. Those who don’t understand this don’t have much contact with the Chinese in China and almost certainly don’t speak and read Mandarin.