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陰陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet

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Can we talk about how the narrative that Mandarin was corrupted by Manchu/Mongolian influences so isn't the "true Chinese" but instead Hokkien or Cantonese is the "true Chinese" isn't just wrong,

2020 has been a crazy year for me, ofc, I started being really active on Twitter, realized I was bi, and even chut pooled with someone I met on here, but

One interesting phenomenon re: romanization of Chinese names is sometimes it's very difficult to tell what the original character of the family name is. Especially with SE Asians who trace

Worth noting that within each of those colors are many different mutually unintelligible languages. For example, someone who speaks only Longyan Min Nan cannot understand someone who speaks Hokkien or

I take issue with this article for a number of reasons. First, in any society, ethnic minorities already face immense pressure to learn the dominant language, which goes hand-in-hand with

The more I reach out to old leftist friends of mine (many of whom helped steer me in the right direction politically), the more I realize how many of them

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