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I'd say if you're using to refer to a particular ethnicity that's fine. For example, if you're talking about people of the Han Chinese ethnicity who are citizens of Malaysia.
Where it becomes offensive is when people use it as a synonym for "not white."
But most culture is "not white."
Edit: I think my mind is latching on to the center of a venn diagram of things that are both "culture belonging to a people" and "culture not belonging to white people" because I've been hearing the colonial perspective far longer than I've asked this question. When it comes to the word, I'm not understanding very well how to seperate the two things without blending them together.
It's hard to let go of the thought that referring to nonwhiteness the point of the word. So ever since hearing that the way I used it implies that white is the default, I've been completely avoiding it like a slur.