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- From: mcyang@pollux.usc.edu (Bien-Chao Iunn)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,alt.culture.indonesia
- Subject: Chinese as majority in Indonesia and Malaysia ?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:04:01 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <16B5EFC66.RAJA@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> <1k4nsgINNq4m@pollux.usc.edu> <1993Jan27.192858.25854@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan27.192858.25854@athena.mit.edu> joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph
- C Wang) writes:
- >Just like the 228 massacre made some Taiwanese try and distance
- >themselves from the concept of "Chinese," these events (and much less
- >bloody ones in Malaysia) have caused some ethnic Chinese in those
- >areas to distance themselves from the concept of "Indonesian" and
- >"Malaysian." As for your comment that his attitude is an insult to
- >Indonesia, it's probably meant to be.
-
- 228 massacre is a false analogy. The simple fact is, in Taiwan,
- Taiwanese is the majority and Chinese minority. It was the
- Chinese amry ordered by the KMT(KuoMingTung or Nationalist) regime
- massacring tens of thousands of Taiwanese. It was the minority
- KMT regime forcing the majority Taiwanese to accept the Chinese
- identity.
-
- If you want to use the analogy, you have to have the ethnic Chinese
- as the majority in Indonesia and Malaysia, which I don't think is
- the case.
-