Which &quot;Chinese&quot;? Your point seems to miss where the pride lays.<p>There is a lot infighting since the Communist in the 50s&#x2F;60s decided to create simplified Chinese. Traditionalists would argue that simplified Chinese writing is not as elegant&#x2F;pretty as traditional (I agree, although I have a bias as I grew up in a country that kept traditional Chinese) but the dominance of China has forced almost every other place in the world that writes in Chinese to use simplified. This includes Japan, which I believe a large majority of their signs are written in simplified version of kanji.<p>And this spills over into the U.S. where the Chinese who have lived here (which would consist mostly of Hong Kong and Taiwanese) are now fighting (or have fought) the recently immigrated Chinese from China over which system to use in U.S. schools.<p>So there is a lot of pride, but maybe not in the way you believe.