But it's not really Chinese, is it?' Logan was thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know. I guess you'd say it's really not if you look back thousands of years. But I don't think that way. Lots of things start out not Chinese and end up that way.

Ken Liu
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But it's not really Chinese, is it?'Logan was thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know. I guess you'd say it's really not if you look back thousands of years. But I don't think that way.

Lots of things start out not Chinese and end up that way." In this quote, the speaker is talking about how a lot of things evolve from being a different culture or a different language and becoming something else entirely. The speaker believes that a lot of things become something completely different over time. Many things have been going through the process of change, but have also been left behind to represent their past selves in the language that they used to be part of.

In this case, the speaker is talking about how China has changed from being a different culture to being something very different from the country it once was.

Source: All The Flavors

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