Of course you haven’t, and that’s their exact intention.
I’d wager that outside of people who study Asia or East Asia nobody in the US has ever heard anything about Taiwan in general except for something vague about it being the other China.
But yes, Mao’s agricultural “genocide” is a common off-hand citation. I’ll be damned if anyone casually mentions the Taiwanese White Terror.
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?
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.
Woud love an effortpost about this if you can be bothered, from someone with little knowledge about Taiwan’s history
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To be fair knowing where Taiwan is would be an exceptional accomplishment for most people.
lol I remember pointing this out in the old sub and then immediately getting dogpiled by a bunch of Taiwanese nationalists who would lurk there for some reason
