1. I'm sorry, what?
It is YOU who made that assumption, because what he pointed at was the warlord/feudal/padri culture that has dominated the middle eastern mindset since a long time, and it felled many empires, might I add, Islamic.
The division is from within, not from outside.
2. Is this you what you've come to parroting after coming across many anti-china articles and news from the west and its allies?
DO NOT deny this, because if it wasn't for them to set up the basis for the "EVIL CHINA" persona, you wouldn't believe all this anti-muslim thing in China.
Culture in China is huge, but of course, you can not know that from the position of your home in a country far-away from the land you so readily accuse of... anything that the west says. (Irrespective of country/religion).
The food culture in China has never changed a bit.
The philosophical culture in China hasn't changed.
The education culture hasn't changed.
The architectural culture hasn't changed.
Infact, past empires that laid her hands on China ended up being absorbed by its mighty culture.
Not only that, the chinese cultural influence spans across whole of East Asia.
Not only that, you accuse them of "wearing" different clothes than what you "perceive" to form a culture in China.
This is the age of information.
Many mindsets will get influenced by differing cultures now more than ever.
Even during the age of colonialism, China was gaining influence, albeit to a limited scale and never succeeding on a greater one.
Japan is different, Malaysia is different, Vietnam is different, Burma is different.
Do you really want them to be waging wars amongst themselves and going at each others throat because that was part of their culture at some point?
So, Where do you get this "muh evil communist" mindset from?
Why is it limited to China, but not to the greater asian territories?
What do you know?
Oh! I know, try having a meet-up in your company wearing only a dhoti and nothing else.
Cultural power!