Just to clarify: Ethnic lines, especially Native/Aboriginal lines, are used extensively by the Westoid powers to create propaganda.
It's particularly useful because the entire West was built off of the intentional genocide of hundreds of millions of Aboriginal peoples. So in addition to weakening their perceived enemy, it's also a major plus to pretend they're not the only ones genociding. Two birds one stone.
While you've heard at length about every single ethnic minority in China, from Uyghurs to Tibetans to Mongols to Manchu, ever wonder why you hear literally nothing about Taiwanese Aboriginal people?
Europeans do not find out about the Ainu naturally. I legitimately did not discover them until Golden Kamuy included them and I'm a massive Japan nerd to the point of having been there a couple times.
pretending to know about every ethnicity/tribe that ever existed, while actually knowing nothing about them at all other than the fact that they existed, resulting in a commidifying fetishization of their culture, while also spreading white wewuzzery myths about their origin.
Just to clarify: Ethnic lines, especially Native/Aboriginal lines, are used extensively by the Westoid powers to create propaganda.
It's particularly useful because the entire West was built off of the intentional genocide of hundreds of millions of Aboriginal peoples. So in addition to weakening their perceived enemy, it's also a major plus to pretend they're not the only ones genociding. Two birds one stone.
While you've heard at length about every single ethnic minority in China, from Uyghurs to Tibetans to Mongols to Manchu, ever wonder why you hear literally nothing about Taiwanese Aboriginal people?
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Because Taiwan is a US colony
and unlike Japan, it was never anti-US. (Japan also has a high level of general interest, so Europeans find out about the Ainu naturally)
Europeans do not find out about the Ainu naturally. I legitimately did not discover them until Golden Kamuy included them and I'm a massive Japan nerd to the point of having been there a couple times.
well I guess that means you're not a fucking r*dditor
Oh? Are Ainu on reddit all the time? Where do they usually show up?
No, I'm referring to the redditor behavior of:
pretending to know about every ethnicity/tribe that ever existed, while actually knowing nothing about them at all other than the fact that they existed, resulting in a commidifying fetishization of their culture, while also spreading white wewuzzery myths about their origin.
Woud love an effortpost about this if you can be bothered, from someone with little knowledge about Taiwan's history
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I know very little about them
it's just that I'm aware that I don't know anything. Vast majority doesn't even reach this level.