Like so many other things the Chinese buy, they probably do so because they think we buy them, and they want to be like us.
"Like so many other things the Chinese buy, they probably do so because they think we buy them, and they want to be like us."
No, actually you're wrong.
The Chinese have never tried to be like anyone else. They simply do as they have always done: borrow aspects they like from other cultures and adapt to their own.