If you casually scroll through Instagram and TikTok, you can see all kinds of “chinamaxxing” health trends. Adidas's newly released Tang suit jacket is completely sold out online (all sold to foreigners).

Foreign media tend to attribute this to the "rise of Chinese soft power," but I prefer to think that behind this is a result of the antagonism and fusion of Chinese and Western cultures, and this result is particularly evident among entrepreneurs.

On one hand, there is the pragmatism and structural sense ingrained in our DNA from our ancestors; on the other hand, Western modern thought has trimmed out the overly pedantic aspects of traditional wisdom, reshaping a personal form. This combination is inherently very suitable for entrepreneurship.

Western society allows you to be romantic, to be impulsive, to bet on long-term, irrational things. Even in failure, it does not immediately negate who you are. This is a huge margin of error given by the system and culture.

I studied at an American liberal arts college, majoring in psychology, taking courses like metaphysics and art history. My parents always complained that I was learning a bunch of "useless stuff." But it is precisely these seemingly useless courses that gave me an almost instinctive, somewhat irrational trust in human subjectivity and the inclusiveness between people.

I call this state romantic because it is completely opposed to the cynical mindset deeply ingrained in many Chinese people, who think “I’ve seen through it all” and “there's nothing to see.”

It is this romanticism that gives a person the courage to give up a stable high salary for entrepreneurship, to dare to invest money in a smart contract that hasn’t been audited much yet, and more importantly, it is a way to reconcile with oneself. When you allow yourself to be impulsive, to be excited, and to have expectations for long-term value, you also allow yourself to be happy, allow others to be happy, and allow society to improve together.

Of course, if Western romanticism goes to extremes, it can easily become floating in the air, detached, and not getting things done. At this point, the pragmatic educational philosophy in Chinese culture becomes particularly important.

Chinese entrepreneurs often like to use the term “doing business / make business,” while in the English-speaking world, entrepreneurship is called a start-up. Chinese entrepreneurship prioritizes the business model (aka, whose money you’re making) while the West focuses on the act of entrepreneurship.

In the past few years, the cryptocurrency circle has been severely educated by the issue of “not getting things done.” A large amount of energy has been spent on low-level narratives and conceptual packaging, while real applications are few and far between, ultimately leading to “speculating on coins,” the most primitive track, being firmly controlled by a group of Asian players.

When I first saw the Mega white paper, I instinctively thought, “This architecture is so reasonable.” Centralized sorter + Ethereum security = faster chain, the logic is clear, simple, and direct. However, this “Sino-Western mixed” logic is taboo in the eyes of many foreigners because, in their context, centralization is almost equivalent to original sin.

But to me, centralization has never been original sin; it is just a tool. Many Western teams, in a politically correct environment, can never make choices like Mega, while we can inherit the thinking of “concentrating efforts to do big things” and use decentralized security as the final endorsement, thereby expanding the entire imaginative space at once.

However, I also know that with only Chinese-style education, I can at most only run a small workshop or small business. What truly makes me believe that this “centralization trade-off” can lead to new applications and can grow the entire circle is the Western education I have received. It has given me the courage to believe in system design, to believe in structural choices, and to believe in the possibility of scaling.

In the end, there are always people who tell me I am the typical “banana person,” yellow on the outside and white on the inside. I cannot agree. The world has never been black and white, nor has it ever been east or west. The greatest advantage of a person who has truly experienced multiple cultures is the ability to absorb their strengths and then recombine them.

Take myself as an example: I finished high school in Beijing, went to college in the United States, directly went to Nigeria in Africa after graduation, and later settled in Dubai in the Middle East. If you ask me whether I am a banana or a sweet date, I don’t know. But I do know one thing:

If you are also a Chinese person who can speak English, you must bravely step out and face the clash of Eastern and Western cultures; there will definitely be opportunities for you to profit here; if you were born in China and do not speak English, you must learn it and then go out into the world.

The world is big; only playing half is truly a waste.

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