Anyway the funny thing to me personally about the debate over whether Scots or Ukrainian or other "regional dialects" are "real languages" is how my dad converted to being a hardcore Chinese nationalist when I was in high school and started saying Taiwanese "isn't a language"
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I feel like this is linked to his weirdly hypocritical anger about seeing Spanish-language stuff everywhere after we moved to LA Even though English wasn't his first language either and he took advantage of Chinese-language stuff wherever it existed
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Like textbook model minority shit "If they come to this country they should learn this country's language, they shouldn't expect everyone to accommodate them" "The US doesn't *have* an official language, and are you saying people shouldn't have accommodated you?" "They DIDN'T"
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Anyway it's just funny seeing nationalists of different imperialist nations defending each other, in order to strive for some kind of ideological consistency The whole "independence question" is an *extremely* volatile third rail among my Taiwan relatives
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It's kind of true? You'll be locked out of a lot of conversations, but it's rare to have to know Taiwanese for day-to-day stuff, especially if you live in a city.
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