Does it matter that let Grus japonensis be the national bird of China?

Red-crowned crane is selected to be candidate of the national bird of China by the public. And Forestry Bureau has submitted it to the higher authority, but they haven't received any reply yet. It's said that the focus of the discussion is " The Latin name of Red-crowned crane is Grus japonensis, which is not a sutible name for the national bird of China."

I think the reason why the Latin name of Red-crouned crane can raise such a big dispute is that many people hold narrow ethnic culture, which is not compatible with the modern cultural conception, such as openess, tolerance and sharing.

Also, the dispute implies people are not confident with their culture. For thousands of years, China is alway being the center of Asia, occupying the position of culture delivering, formed the cultural circle of Confucianism and became one of the most important culture types of the world. However, in the near 100 years, the culture delivering almost totally stopped, Chinese were no more confident with the cultural position and even ran to contendding cultural heritage with their little brothers in the circle.

Jiangling Rite is not Dragon boat festival, Korean Medicine is not equal to Chinese traditional medical science, lead printing type is not wooden printing type and Japanese characters are not totally equal to Chinese characters. The cultures considered as rubbish are now blooming in the countries nearby and still give a positive influence to the country and people. When they claim they own the culture value and made contributions to that, do we have face to argue with them? China is a big county, but many Chinese don't have a great-power mentality they should have.

Culture can be shared and in return sharing can extend the value of culture. I've seen a lot of Japanese paintings where red-crowned cranes are flying in the snow storm, not the same with Chinese painting where cranes are always with pine meaning long life. I don't study much about the cranes between Japanese and Chinese paintings, but what I often see in a disaster people made a thousand paper cranes giving each other and blessing which shows us it's not difficult to share our culture.

Of course, the judges of national bird is just a surface layer of the culture. How to restore the sense of worth broken up by the reality of the citizens is even more important. If our sense of culture is open, tolerant and multicomponent,and our spirit is confident, free and proud, how can the Grus japonensis be a debatable question?