He thinks me a vegetarian?!

A Han Chinese got angry and threatened, “He thinks me a vegetarian?!”

If you are not happy with others, properly, you should think if it is fair or not to either side. If not fair, you can seek fairness or justice. And whatever else you want to seek, what you can seek can not be beyond fairness.

But how do Han Chinese understand others’ behavior and the reasons? And how do Han Chinese think how they should do to response to others’ behavior?

Han Chinese think, if others made them unhappy, it must be because others think them easier to be offended, or because others think them the lower. And the only way to stop others making them unhappy is to let others know they are not that easy to be offended, or they can’t be treated as the lower. It is why Han Chinese say they are not vegetarians (which don’t eat meat), but carnivore (which eat meat) to warn others that they can attack.

Fairness? Justice? Oh, sorry, that is not in Han Chinese mind. Han Chinese relationship is established because there are the higher and the lower, the attacker and the surrender.