Teon: What’s wrong with calling a way of lokoing at things “simplistic,” or thinking a “comment was boring”? If this is offensive, then I really don’t know. What’s for me offensive is implying that I used personal attacks when I didn’t. I shall be glad, if you stop commenting here, or on any other website that I own, because I find your attitude inappropriate. Back to the point. The contradiction you mentioned is already so common that people don’t take it as such. ROC=Taiwan or Taiwan=ROC, people don’t care about the legal interpretation of these two entities on daily basis, the terms are mostly conflated in the hearts and minds of people, especially young ones. People also don’t think Britain rules over Australia and Canada, because Elizabeth II is queen regnant of these countries. You’re taking Taiwanese as a homogenous block, that shall behave one way or the another, while there is so much diversity and complexity, and you’re too legal about patriotism and nationalism, which are matters of the heart, not mind, and therefore irrational.
Teon: What’s wrong with calling a way of lokoing at things “simplistic,” or thinking a “comment was boring”? If this is offensive, then I really don’t know. What’s for me offensive is implying that I used personal attacks when I didn’t. I shall be glad, if you stop commenting here, or on any other website that I own, because I find your attitude inappropriate. Back to the point. The contradiction you mentioned is already so common that people don’t take it as such. ROC=Taiwan or Taiwan=ROC, people don’t care about the legal interpretation of these two entities on daily basis, the terms are mostly conflated in the hearts and minds of people, especially young ones. People also don’t think Britain rules over Australia and Canada, because Elizabeth II is queen regnant of these countries. You’re taking Taiwanese as a homogenous block, that shall behave one way or the another, while there is so much diversity and complexity, and you’re too legal about patriotism and nationalism, which are matters of the heart, not mind, and therefore irrational.
Comment by Nhi — December 1, 2014 @ 4:43 pm