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Taiwan is a fake and gay country, now literally. Why Taiwanese nationalism is such a joke. A nation, in addition to the ethnic cohesion of the community, is also defined by it's shared traditions. Note the operative word here being, traditions, not values. We are the sons of our
fathers, and of their fathers before them, building on the historic memory of family and community. Values can and do shift on a dime, tradition is harder to break away from and it is in this collective memory that humans define who is, and isn't part of the community.
Unfortunately for Taiwan, they simply don't have any because their society is composed to mercantile peasants cut off from their larger elite traditions and blindly groping and failing to find anything that gives meaning to their worthless lives.
Their sad attempt at searching for an answer only leads them to a dead end because the crux of so-called Taiwanese nationalism lies not in tradition, but in negation. Taiwanese don't and can't define themselves as what they are, but only by what they are not, not Chinese that is.
Unfortunately for them, it's not enough and it will never be enough, you cant build a community on abnegation without something to replace it. Ask a Taiwanese what does it mean to be Taiwanese and they will give you a blank eyed slack jawed stare.
Some of the more inventive idiots will point at their night markets, and now fag marriage, and muh democracy, as fonts of nationhood. Let that sink in for a minute as to how empty and pathetic these foundations are. That is because Taiwan doesn't have a native elite worth a damn.
Ask a Chinese what it means to be Chinese and he'll laugh and consider it an irrelevant question. Probe someone a little more educated and the could possibly say they are Han ethnics, or the sons of the yellow emperor, or the inheritors of three thousand years of historic cannon
A continuous tradition dating backs to the Kings of Zhou. Filled with a pantheon of cultural heroes, myths, demigods, and the assorted accretions of civilizations. What does Taiwan have? No one can think of anything because nothing exists.
All you are left with is the ephemeral. That is shitty dysfunctional party politics, unsanitary food stalls, and now Washington dictated globo-homo for the masses and of course the "we wuz samurai" from the even stupider crowd so empty that they have to steal someone elses.
