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It’s “Lunar New Year” now. Of course, there are many lunar calendars with differing starts of the year but let’s just pave over that to Frankenstein together some generic nonspecific holiday because Gyna bad.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It doesn’t really matter. Focus on eating dumplings instead comrades. Love you all x

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

filling my guts with Пероги for a heckin slavy the ukraine to celebrate lunar new years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I mean, they're as much dumplings as crab rangoon is shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

as a black person...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

On the one hand it doesn't matter. On the other hand, this is the exact kind of rhetorical salami slicing that western propaganda engages in against it's enemies. I think in the context of rising Sinophobia and Asian people getting hatecrimed on the streets, it is good and useful to push back against this sort of thing.

Idk about you but I've seen stores and restaurants near me brand clearly Chinese things as "Hong Kongnese" or "Taiwanese", presumably to avoid hate crimes and backlash. One particularly egregious example is that news headline that framed 冰糖葫芦 as a Korean snack:

Edit: I think a good comparison is pushing back when Israel tries to claim falafel as its own dish. Falafel won't stop being delicious either way and it's not a hill to die on, but fuck Israel for trying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago