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.
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
:rat-salute:
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.