Commercial advertisers would put kittens through blenders if it would sell a product.

My Chinese students are blind to the concept of racial discrimination and the identification of personal racist emotions which they, like everyone, possess.

Only in a Chinese university can 60 students sit in any classroom and not see one person who is a different race, save an occasional FT.

There are Chinese 'minorities' (often identified as 'nationalities' in Chinglish) but they are generally indistinguishable in appearance.

I have taught between 4000 and 5000 students in five different cities and have never had a Xinjiang minority Muslim student or Tibetan minority student.

This uniquely unitary population, sharing the same race and nationality, where religion is generally of little consequence explains much about Chinese in their interaction with the rest of the world.

A good teacher, FT or other, will take time to sensitively and non-judgmentally communicate to his students the nature of this unique unitary personal perspective that citizens of China share.