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[–] hcf@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  1. "Taiwanese" isn't even their ethnic identity, the government of Taiwan identifies the big ethnicity as "Han".

  2. 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.

[–] hcf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

I don't know why you felt it necessary to put Taiwanese in quotes, nor do I understand why you find it so important to post--over and over again--that Taiwanese isn't an ethnicity.

I never said that it was. I said that a country does not have to have a distinct ethnic identity to merit independence or self-determination.

I think you're talking past me, here.