No he didn’t.
Can we get an article that at least attempts to be objective and doesn’t tell us how to feel? Half the damn thing is moralizing about Taiwanese independence (which I support BTW) rather than providing new information.
Taiwanese isn’t an ethnicity, Taiwan is mostly Han, though there are a few percent of indigenous people.
Edit: Anyone downvoting this doesn’t know the most basic history of Taiwan and should refrain from having an opinion. Here’s the wikipedia article citing Taiwan’s govenment’s statistics.
Are you somehow under the impression that the only possible identity is ethnic? Like when people say “I’m a New Yorker” do you reply back “Um, actually, New Yorker isn’t an ethnicity”?
And would the lack of ethnic New Yorkiness justify a ban on people labeling themselves or organizing as New Yorkers? Should we abolish the city of New York in the name of national unity then?
They’re ML. ML generally think cultural identity, gender identity, etc are all bourgeoisie attacks on class solidarity. There is only one identity to them. Government.
If China is attacking Taiwanese people for thinking of themselves as Taiwanese under an Ethnic Unity law, perhaps you should be complaining about China, and not people, conflating them. Even in the article it refers to a national identity and not an ethnic identity.
Rolling up on July 4th (on an English speaking forum) to make vague posts to suggest another country’s ethnic identity isn’t distinct enough to merit national independence kind of makes you sound like an asshole.
That’s why you’re being downvoted.
Not wrong, just an asshole.
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“Taiwanese” isn’t even their ethnic identity, the government of Taiwan identifies the big ethnicity as “Han”.
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You don’t need ethnic nationalism for a national identity, wtf?
Then again, maybe the 4th of July isn’t the time for that conversation.
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