I mean, t he KMT got straight to work on the Sinification of Taiwan, dismantling Shinto shrines, banning the Japanese and Taiwanese languages, etc.
However, the old entertainment district of Taipei City, their new capital, was allowed to stay. It even got to keep its Japanese name! Why was this, of all things, allowed to stay as a reminder of Taiwan's colonial past?
Welcome to the Cultural Exchange between r/BalticStates and r/Taiwan!
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The relationships between our countries lately have greatly improved, so it is time for us to understand each other - this is the purpose of this Cultural Exchange.
General guidelines: - r/Taiwan users will post questions in this thread. Baltic redditors post questions to a parallel thread in r/Taiwan Here
This exchange will be moderated and users are expected to obey the rules of both subreddits.
For our guests, there is a "Taiwan" flair in our list, feel free to edit yours!
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There are a number of revelations in here about things that you might have always believed about economics that seem obvious or commonplace, but didn't actually happen
https://youtu.be/CZIINXhGDcs
Apologies if this is slightly different to the sort of fare one usually gets in this sub...
There is a proto-Malayo-Polynesian term for "coconut" (*niuR) but no proto-Austronesian term. The word for "coconut" in Taiwanese Aboriginal languages is highly variable, and none of them that I am aware of bear any resemblance to *niuR. Some are straight-up loans. This kind of implies that (cultivated) coconuts only became available to the Austronesians some time after leaving Taiwan.
See Siraya (Sinkan dialect) rudo, Pangcah (Amis) 'afinong and Paiwan & Rukai yasi.^(1) Also Puyuma duduโ^(2), Sakizaya (closely related to Pangcah) abinung***^(3)***, Kavalan nuzu (which may be a loan from a Malayo-Polynesian language)^(4).
As I have been informed by u/Huwalu_ka_Using ^(1):
>Despite [the prominent role of coconuts in Siraya and Amis cuisine and agriculture], there aren't really any records or stories (that I know of) speaking of the coconut prior to the arrival of the Han.
And per Animals and Plants for the Formosan Natives:
>...most cultivated plants in Taiwan were not introduced to Taiwan until a few hundred years ago. Their cognate forms cannot be reconstructed at the PAN level. These cultivated plants include potato, sweet potato, taro, corn/maize, pumpkin, cucumber, bottle gourd, sponge gourd, banana, guava, papaya, pineapple, coconut, mango, plum, peach, pear, persimmon, loquat, water melon [sic], sesame, eggplant, tomato, garlic, pepper, ginger, cinnamon, beans, peas, peanut, hemp plant, etc. In fact, many of them are not reconstructible at all.
What took coconuts so long to reach (or get established in) Taiwan? Per the below diagram, it seems that the Kuroshio ought to bring coconuts from the Philippines to Taiwan's shores. The climate in lots of Taiwan (bar the mountainous regions of course) is clearly suitable for the growth of coconut palms.
Maybe the prevalence of folktales about coconuts can give us some clues as to how long coconuts have been in Taiwan? In addition to linguistic and other cultural evidence?
Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2387846
^(1) Huwalu_ka_Using here
^(2) [https://core.ac.uk
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That show ruled supreme over everything, literally nothing was talked about more in entertainment circles for years. Then afterwards it's just disappointment and then nothing. Like it didn't exist. Like that one family member we don't talk about.
I've never seen anything like that before. I wonder if this motivates GRRM more or less, knowing how breathtaking his IP's fall from grace was.
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The first of many episodes covering the build up, events, and aftermath of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place in China from 1966 to 1976. In this episode we discuss what the Cultural Revolution was supposed to be, recap its principal causes, discuss the events that led to the declaration of the CR, and cover the formation and expansion of the Red Guards, Mao's children of the Revolution.
00:00: Introduction
04:23 - What was the Cultural Revolution?
15:45 - Events leading up to the Cultural Revolution
29:43 - The first stages of the Cultural Revolution
37:06 - The formation of the Red Guards
43:48 - Those of black class background join the Red Guards
46:56 - Outro
Some mispronunciations - I found that I mispronounced LUO Ruiqing as LIU Ruiqing, and HAI Rui as HA Rui a few times. My bad, Luo and Hai are the correct terms!
Hello everyone! I wanted to share this free resource called Yorescape because its an amazing app that has virtual tours of places like the Roman Forum, Red Chapel in Egypt, and Hadrian's Villa. Each stop even has commentary from professors and archaeologists and hours of educational content!
It's really perfect for the classroom, especially those with tablets or mobile devices for the students!
Android Devices: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyoverzone.yorescape
iOS Devices: https://testflight.apple.com/join/m7gTL55X (Has to sign up for Testflight first because the app is in Beta but it's totally safe for your device!)
I've used the app a lot so let me know if you have any questions!
The Context
Yesterday I made the mistake of engaging with a user in this thread in the "MilitaryPorn" subreddit. People were discussing atrocities and brutality committed by US soldiers in wartime and I posted the following comment regarding the Pacific theater of WWII:
>Agree. The Pacific War was a positive feedback loop of brutality where violence committed by the Japanese encouraged American violence and vice versa, but American racism and dehumanization played a large role in igniting such atrocities.
>
>I took a class on atrocities and war crimes under the historian Bruno Cabanes in college and we had an entire lecture on how American soldiers were far more zealous and motivated about fighting the Japanese than the Nazis. Unfortunately I donโt have exact sources for this claim, but basically Cabanes said that most US soldiers in Europe were just there to do their job as soldiers - they didnโt feel any extreme animosity or hatred towards the Nazis. Comparatively, US soldiers in the Pacific absolutely hated the Japanese as a people and were more likely to โwantโ to be there killing Japanese soldiers.
A user asked for some sources to support my claim that American racism was a factor in the escalation of violence and brutality in the Pacific, so I provided a JSTOR journal article on the topic from the International History Review. Evidently the user was not happy with either my arguments or my sources - take a look at some of these BadHistory^(TM) excerpts from his comments.
The Bad History
> Wtf is a cultural historian? Makes sense where you all get this bullshit from.
The Yale University Department of History defines cultural history as the study of "beliefs and ideas" and "the notions of the less privileged and less educated," as well as the "effort to inhabit the minds of the people of different worlds." Yale also believes that culture "shapes our understanding of the world."^(1) A simple google search of the term "cultural history" brings up results on the topic from universities like Chicago, Duke, and Edinburgh, as well as numerous JSTOR articles.
Given this, I think it's fair to claim that labeling cultural history, or the study of culture in history, as "bullshit" shows a complete lack of understanding of the method of historical research and purposefully
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Spotify| Apple| Buzzsprout | Google | Website
The first of many episodes covering the build up, events, and aftermath of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place in China from 1966 to 1976. In this episode we discuss what the Cultural Revolution was supposed to be, recap its principal causes, discuss the events that led to the declaration of the CR, and cover the formation and expansion of the Red Guards, Mao's children of the Revolution.
00:00: Introduction
04:23 - What was the Cultural Revolution?
15:45 - Events leading up to the Cultural Revolution
29:43 - The first stages of the Cultural Revolution
37:06 - The formation of the Red Guards
43:48 - Those of black class background join the Red Guards
46:56 - Outro
Some mispronunciations - I found that I mispronounced LUO Ruiqing as LIU Ruiqing, and HAI Rui as HA Rui a few times. My bad, Luo and Hai are the correct terms!
