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It matter to us non-chineses or non-asians because you are bringing up how we feel in relation to this fact. But that's not how the chinese people feel. Your argument is based on a feeling that you share with most people on the western hemisphere, but chinese shouldn't base their habits on how we feel.
The history of dogs in our societes is not the same as the history of dogs in their society, they took a different road and there is no objective moral reason for us to condemn it. Whatever the reason chineses started to domesticate dogs thousands of years ago, for a long time they have been thinking of dogs no different than we think of pigs.
Besides, if it is our history with dogs that justifies our sympathy for them, they might as well say its their different history with dogs that justifies their lack of sympathy for dogs.
The problem with basing the value of the life of a dog in how we interact with them and then claiming objectivity is that you treat the value of a life as an imposed attribute, so in this logic dogs lives have value because you and some people say they do, but that's not an intrinsic property of dogs. If chinese people say they do not because that's how they think of dogs then this is a discussion about feelings and culture, but it is not objective. If you want to claim you repudiate the idea of eating dog meat, that's fine, but you don't repudiate it for objective reasons that can be universalized even if there is a rationale behind it.
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