EPTI can't explain how I feel (it might be racism against chinese people?), but it just really irks me to be associated with Chinese people.
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imBLIND
United States2626 Posts
I can't explain how I feel (it might be racism against chinese people?), but it just really irks me to be associated with Chinese people. | ||
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SpiritoftheTunA
United States20903 Posts
and the language is harsh and lends to native speakers having hard-to-listen-to accents in other languages just an unfortunate culture all around | ||
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
that being said, taiwan people don't want to be lumped in together with china, generally speaking. chinese are generally as good as identifying similarities in taiwanese as taiwanese is good at identifying differences in chinese. it's all kind of pointless. is taiwan different enough to warrant it being a separate country? I don't think that's the point at all. Tibet is certainly very different from China, more so than taiwan, yet it is part of china like it or not. It's just U.S. backing up taiwan so that it didn't get rolled over. The decision to remain a separate country should be decided by the inhabitants of a region, and made possible by sufficient force. As it stands taiwan has enough people believing it should be a separate country, and has enough forces behind it to remain a separate country (with u.s. backing), so good for them. | ||
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
although, the more / better educated one gets, true for both taiwanese and chinese, the more openminded one becomes. in that case we regard each other as fascinating countries and express a longing to visit and explore each other's cultures, rather than pointing fingers in contempt. i'd love to visit taiwan some day, i've heard so many good things about it haha. | ||
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Reaper9
United States1724 Posts
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MoltkeWarding
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On August 25 2015 22:46 evanthebouncy! wrote: a lot of taiwanese people do feel "superior" to chinese, for pretty much the same reason white people feel superior to black people. what they don't realize is the circumstances dictates how well someone turns out far more than innate abilities, and all the rudeness and backward behaviours they see in chinese are product of an underdeveloped country rather than the people themselves. those taiwanese people annoy me. Feelings of superiority exist independently of the causes we assign for their existence. The immediacy of our assertion that we are better than something else is not predicated on our erroneous assignment of secondary causes. The obvious visibility of superiority produces its own sensation; it justifies itself in a thousand ways which will never be articulated, much less rationalised. By the very nature of things, superiority is first felt, then asserted, and only lastly are its causes contemplated, if at all. If tomorrow Taiwan were to be poorer and more base than the Mainland, Taiwan would maintain its assertion of uniqueness from the Mainland all the same, and it will have nothing to do with economics or politics. Reason creates families, but Time sustains them. The Civil War created the divorce, but it is not the thing that sustains it today. This also explains the reason why anything can be counterfeit, everyone is corrupt, and nothing is safe, including milk powder, buildings, food, chemical plants, and so on. Of the four traditional classes within Chinese society: the literati, the farmer, the artisan, and the merchant, the merchant had always been considered the lowest class, both in their expected adherence to morality, and their social prestige. The development of the China in the last forty years has seen a massive shift from the farmer to the merchant as the backbone of Chinese society, with moral consequences which can barely be exaggerated, since the proverbial dishonesty of the Chinese merchant is now an asset, rather than the marks of infamy that they were during more puritanical times. | ||
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Otolia
France5805 Posts
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ShiaoPi
TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5956 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
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Shock710
Australia6097 Posts
Also its not like the mainland chinese people have no clue about traditional, thats where its from. Even though it was switched to be easier for the new generation to learn, many old texts, signs are still used by mainland china, many adults can read it fine, the new generation may find it harder, but i know students who pick it up quickly because the differences might seem "complicated to you" but many of them retain the same structure, because the simplified version is not just a whole new character its just simplified. Differences in accents of mandarin is not the way to distinguish because every part of china has differences in pronunciations, though slight. Dialects also dont count because theres a crazy amount of dialects throughout mainland china. | ||
digmouse
China6330 Posts
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nimdil
Poland3751 Posts
On August 26 2015 06:13 R1CH wrote: Did you try contacting them about it? What did they say? Assuming that's a question to me - I don't use Twitter so no. I guess I could register on their forum which might just be interesting. | ||
nimdil
Poland3751 Posts
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ShiaoPi
TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5956 Posts
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Funnytoss
Taiwan1471 Posts
On September 04 2015 00:16 nimdil wrote: OK so I asked on the forum and the ISO hypothesis was correct. More so they appear to be willing to rename the country to "Taiwan, Republic of China" which I think is super fine. Anyone from Taiwan - can you confirm or deny? That's certainly accurate enough, considering that's actually what it says on our passports. | ||
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nimdil
Poland3751 Posts
And now it's Taiwan, Republic of China. | ||
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ShiaoPi
TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5956 Posts
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