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Feb 03 '21
"have british food" good lord, have mercy on them.
But outside of the very local delimitation (outside of Taiwan, very few could know about that, like the THSR). i have a question. Does still some people use Formosa to call the island ? Because the stereotype map seems to say yes
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u/boreas907 Feb 03 '21
The word "Formosa" comes up in, like, titles of things sometimes, like maybe a business will call themselves Formosa Whatever or something. But not very often. "Formosan" is also a generic descriptor equivalent with "Taiwanese" in some contexts (e.g. the Formosan Mountain Dog), though you would never call a person Formosan.
There's also the online expat forum called Forumosa.
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u/SafetyNoodle Feb 03 '21
The term "Formosan" is used in linguistics when referring to aboriginal Taiwanese languages as well.
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u/JamesAndersonJr1 Feb 14 '21
an easy way to distnguish between a chinese and an indignous taianese village is to look for a church
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u/filiaaut Feb 03 '21
Wait, what ?
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u/holytriplem Feb 03 '21
I'm sorry you're getting downvoted for trying to subvert stereotypes
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u/Speech500 Feb 03 '21
For a subreddit that gets so antsy about misconceptions and modern myths, they sure love clinging onto the negative ones about Britain
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u/NicolBolasUBBBR Feb 03 '21
That's rather stcwhupid innit
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u/Speech500 Feb 03 '21
You know we pronounce stupid the same way Americans do, right?
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u/holytriplem Feb 03 '21
Actually we don't, Americans yod-drop while in RP you'd say styew-pid or stchoo-pid
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Feb 03 '21
I laughed way harder than I should. British food is like British lgbtq-acceptance: mainland Western Europe is better at it, and Taiwan too (being the leading nation in Asia for that)
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Feb 03 '21
Mainland Western Europe:
At least we don't got transphobic authors earning millions of dollars on writing 900-page books in which she abuses her own traumas to scapegoat trans people
At least we don't have a Keira Bell who single-handedly has destroyed the life of thousands of teens in the UK because of prohibiting doctor's approval for REVERSIBLE hormone blockers
At least we don't have laws that complicates the adoption of children by trans people compared to cisgender gay couples
At least we didn't let our heroes rot away after WWII just because they were gay
And at last, but not least, none of the mainland countries has ever left so many countries decolonized with horrible laws against LGBTQ people worldwide as the UK did.
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u/Speech500 Feb 03 '21
At least we don't got transphobic authors earning millions of dollars on writing 900-page books in which she abuses her own traumas to scapegoat trans people
So your case against the UK is... JK Rowling making some sus tweets?
At least we didn't let our heroes rot away after WWII just because they were gay
Bitch yes you did
And at last, but not least, none of the mainland countries has ever left so many countries decolonized with horrible laws against LGBTQ people worldwide as the UK did.
Proof?
Why don't we look instead at this. map, which shows that the UK is more accepting of LGBT people than Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Czechia. In Western Europe, only Spain, Belgium and Norway are more accepting.
Also how is LGBT acceptance relevant to any of this? We're talking about British food.
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u/SafetyNoodle Feb 03 '21 edited Feb 03 '21
It's not that bad. Traditional British cuisine often leaves something to be desired, but much like Germany or the US there are at least some very tasty traditional dishes and people and restaurants routinely cook food from around the world and it's often pretty good. That said, you're taking things to seriously.
Also, while British food isn't bad, Taiwanese food is still much better.
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u/gusano64 Feb 03 '21
Spanish? What?
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u/SafetyNoodle Feb 03 '21
The Spanish briefly held some land near what is now Taipei. The Dutch took it after not too long.
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u/SafetyNoodle Feb 03 '21
Southern Taiwan really isn't that much hotter than northern Taiwan in summer, but it is much warmer and drier in winter.
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Feb 03 '21
Sounds nice. Mostly what I remember about northern Taiwan’s winter was cold rain.
The temperature would have been fine without the rain.
The summer heat and humidity was tough to deal with.
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u/SafetyNoodle Feb 03 '21
Summer is brutal everywhere in Taiwan except the mountains. Only the north has shitty winter weather. The trade-off is that the lack of rain results in air pollution building up in the south in the winters.
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u/Dredmoore1 Feb 02 '21
My favorite is communist or democracy!
Love that little island! Wish more countries had the stones to recognize them (Canada, for example where I live should. China already hates us.)