Taiwan

sorry, mainland China!

Like the Taiwanese, the mainland of China is seen in a Facebook competition. The Initiator plays with the Ego of the emerging China, the demands for each of the alleged errors of an apology.

To apologize just once in public in the Chinese culture is difficult. Very difficult. The Chinese place a lot of value on saving Face. At the most, behind closed doors, to ask for leniency. However, Wang Yi-kai, owner of an ice cream shop on the island Republic of Taiwan, has launched the campaign “to Apologize to China” on Facebook and learns unexpected great popularity.

With the rise of China’s economic power, the need of Chinese nationalists, according to supremacy grows. For each putative anti-Chinese misconduct is especially required in the Social media quickly, an apology. Extremists go further and call for a Boycott of foreign Goods. Last nationalists no longer called on the people to visit the fast food chain of KFC. The reason is that An arbitration award by the Permanent court of arbitration in the Hague had rejected a verdict of almost all of the territorial claims of China in the South China sea. Behind the judgment, the suspected Chinese activists brought American influence.

Call for a boycott in China after arbitration in The Hague

Competition with political Ambition

Wang, who had stood as an advocate for the independence of Taiwan in vain for a seat in the Parliament in the capital, Taipei, wanted to do with his competition on the reactions from the mainland to the attention of. The competition he has in five languages, written out: English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and, not least Chinese, in traditional script. This is written only in Taiwan and Hong Kong and is regarded as an important part of their cultural identity. On the mainland, is generally used the simplified Chinese.

His idea was that The Fans should apologize to China for things that are in Taiwan as a matter of course, and the mainland has not or else manage. The game ends at the 30. July. The excuse with the most “Likes” wins at the end of a title. Prize money there is not.

Taiwan Actor Leon Dai

Great Reception

17,000 people responded to the invitation so far, and use the competition as a platform for a verbal war. It’s about being the better country with a better ideology. Most recently, the Taiwanese actor Leon Dai was not able to take the main role in a Chinese movie production, because he was shown to the Chinese Public as a “supporter for the independence of Taiwan”. Dai himself has denied all allegations and apologised exaggerated on Facebook.

“I’m sorry, love, people’s Republic of China,” writes another participant. “As I was for the first Time with you in vacation, I have shown at the border control the passport of the Republic of China and the border police are irritated. That we have different views and us can not agree, I’m so sorry.” China, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province, and referred to the island as “China’s Taiwan”.

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Taiwan people’s will on Facebook

The Internet community on Facebook is apparently of a different opinion and insists on self-reliance. “Sorry China, I love being a Taiwanese and not a slave of China,” writes one. “Sorry, Communists. In Taiwan, it’s me super. Can I choose my President by yourself. I may rant on the state leadership. If I want to, I can write ten books, to criticize them,” writes another. He alludes to the persecution of book dealers in Hong Kong by Chinese police, China’s forbidden books. “In Taiwan, I can buy land and own it. In China, one only acquires the rights of use of land. Expropriations happen anywhere and at any time. For this circumstance, sorry!”, so a third-party and added: “Sorry that I have told the truth.”

The sarcastic platform also calls on Hong Kong to the Plan, calling for more autonomy for the special administrative zone. “I love Cantonese (a dialect spoken in Hong Kong, note. d. Red.), sorry. I love Facebook, and not Weibo, sorry. I’m in Hong Kong, sorry.” Another User from Hong Kong, commented: “I must apologise sincerely for that, as I indicated on entry forms as a country of origin never that I’m Chinese, but I Hong Kong am. Problems I never had.”

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The criticism is in the following Statements: “Sorry, I like Hong Kong and Taiwan, really, but not China. Just leave me alone.” Another: “I’m not apologizing, because I don’t see at all, which is why I must apologize to China.”

“Sorry, Taiwan belongs to us”

The votes from Hong Kong and Taiwan can be heard on the mainland. Because Facebook is in China due to the censorship measures are not available. Nevertheless, the country Chinese, write back, apparently: “Sorry, love Taiwan. The country is not able to protect you during the times of the war enough so that you’re falling into the hands of the enemy. But blood is thicker than water. No matter how much you China slander, it loves you. We are waiting on the other side of the Taiwan Strait to your homecoming.”