Raventhedark wrote: When you're born into a country you are part of that identity. People born in China are Chinese. People born in Taiwan are Taiwanese. People can intermingle with each other, but you're still part of the identity of the country you were born into. Nobody can escape that, even if you were to get citizenship elsewhere... It's not like an American person would all of a sudden start to turn into a Chinese person among attaining citizenship. Also just, because one speaks Mandarin does not make them Chinese.... If that were the case I'd be Japanese right now xD
Right but when you have a Chinese boss telling you he is Chinese and was born in Taiwan, then you understand that they roots matter more than any political ideas.... for example, it would take years, and years of intermingeling for them to not be Chinese anymore and only Taiwanese with some far Chinese heritage, as it is now, like I said... when my boss who was born in Taiwan says he is Chinese I dont see why someone saying that would be ignorant, as long as they know the difference... Communist China, Democratic China. Its not like they stripped themselves of being from one race or heritage.... come on.
One of the biggest reasons why United States does not have much sense in what culture and traditions are, is not becuase we (as a whole) are choosing to be arrogant and ignorant of other cultures. US is formed of many different cultures, as it is right now there are almost every other culture living in the US, and we do have holidays for most cultures, and we do pay respect to them. We have little communities that have do their own thing... why is it that Americans (formed by, Caucacians, Africans, Hispanics which includes all Spanish speaking countries, even Spain; Chinese, Japanese, Koreans; Latin people, form Italy, Fance, Brazil, Portugal... you get the drift) dont care about other cultures? I wont answer you that one... just think about that!!!
