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I know some of you upon seeing this are going for that "they're trying to make Chinese new year into lunar new year" angle, but hear me out: isn't this soft power?
It's like if the Roman Empire was still around and we make it a law to celebrate Festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti. Yeah sure it doesn't have the name Rome in it but who are you fooling? Even in this article itself they make it clear it's Chinese.
It's like if the Roman Empire was still around and we make it a law to celebrate Festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti. Yeah sure it doesn't have the name Rome in it but who are you fooling? Even in this article itself they make it clear it's Chinese.
it feels like neolibs are trying to water down the holiday and appropriate it for themselves. I do not trust them much more than MAGA.
I don't mind if they do the lunar new year to replace, Chinese new year, but the problem is when the neolibs like NYT introduce terms like Chinese lunar new year.
Lunar New Year is already Chinese, or Chinese by default, adding Chinese to Lunar New Year is intentionally removing Chinese roots from the term Lunar New Year. In your example it would be if we used the term Romanus Dies Natalis Solis Invicti or Jewish Hanukkah.
Try as they might I don't think it's actually making any difference.
I picked a Roman example specifically because Roman Empire had huge influence in its days but since it's gone people are all culturally appropriating it. Never mind all the US government buildings built in the Roman style with all the pillars, Dies Natalis Solis Invicti was a festival to celebrate the Roman god of the invincible sun and it was on December 25th. Nowadays when people celebrate Christmas they hardly see any Roman connection even though besides the pagan festival connection Jesus himself was a Roman subject.
On the other hand because jews are still around and Israel is a fairly powerful country their cultural gravity makes it impossible to appropriate say, passover away from them, even though it's also celebrated in the US.
So if the Roman Empire was still around today and could claim unbroken cultural linage to antiquity it would also be impossible to culturally appropriate Christmas. Based on this I don't really think it's possible to delineate Chinese New Year away from China as long as China continue to exist and celebrate Chinese New Year domestically.
Myself and the Vietnamese-Chinese guy in my team get Monday off because according to my manager, Chinese New Year is totally a legit case for the company's one day a year "religious holiday". I recall when I started working 15 years ago that wasn't the case and you could only use it for things like Ramadan and Orthodox Easter, so I'm very glad for this Chinese soft power.
That's fine IMO, after all even Ferrari named its hypercar LaFerrari, so Ferrari LaFerrari is the name.
As a racially Chinese person, I agree with this. Let everyone else celebrate lunar new year however they want. In fact, let them redefine lunar new year if they really want to
Another more contemporary example rather than "Festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti" would be Christmas. It has a Christian origin but nobody really cares. All races and religions celebrate it. They don't necessarily celebrate it the Christian way. They celebrate Santa Claus and reindeer and snowmen and green fir trees and giving presents. Even White Christians do their best to celebrate the non Christian aspects and make fun of the stuffy people who want to keep it "strictly religious Christian" only. In this way, Christmas became really popular.
At the same time, nobody is able to stop the religious people who still want to take Christmas as a religious festival and go to church on 25 december
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To the West crimes are not determined by the act one commits but by two factors... who commits the act and who's the victim of that act. When James Byrd Jr was murder by two white supremacists and made national headlines, there were whites who were angered how comes Asian racism doesn't get any attention? Maybe because an Asian didn't drag a black man behind a truck only to stop until there were no body parts left to drag... Just believing Asians are more racists than white people outweighs white racist crimes that people can actually point to. Obama said supposedly friends don't spy on friends referring to China then Edward Snowden revealed Obama was spying on it closest allies. And the US government will use AI to do everything they accuse of China but of course it's different when they do it because they're the good guys... that drag black men behind trucks only to stop when they are no body parts left to drag.
Why is the US whining like a cry baby over Chinese AI? Don't have the confidence for white genetic superiority to beat China's AI? The US wants the world to put pressure on China to stop. They're already decoupling from China so what are they worried about since China can't do anything without them?
That is just economic activity we can put it on the gdp sheet and say EU economy is doing fine, everything is just fine.........