Hard to believe that it is almost three years ago that I posted "Can a Black Man be Chinese?," a somewhat long (by blog standards) reflection on race, ethnicity and national identity.  And I would be remiss if I did not mention the follow up post: "Can a Black Woman be Chinese?".  How time flies…

I thought of both of these posts yesterday when I saw this ChinaSmack post: "Chinese Men with Black Women & African Wives," which seemed to confirm my earlier analysis. 

The intersection of demographics (i.e. sex imbalance in China) and globalization (i.e. increased movement of people generally around the world) is raising fundamental challenges to cultural nationalists who attempt to freeze particular definitions of identity in time and space. 

And, just to be clear, a contemporary Confucian perspetive would accept all of this.  There is no inherent racial or ethnic prejudice in The Analects – anyone, regardless of race, who enacts Duty according to Ritual to move toward Humantiy is a morally accomplished person.  A Black man or women can, if they choose, be Chinese….