Just trying to be helpful and making 1-1 translations to ethnic groupings people here might be more familiar with.
How about the converse argument.
Given your logic once you become White in the USA, those people of European descent in the USA have no right or privilege to identify with their Irish or Italian heritage. That St. Patrick Day and Columbus Day are incorrect and be abolish.
There are only 2 dynasty in China’s history that is not considered Han. The Yuan (Mongolians) and The Qing (Manchurian).
Okinawa and Japan were tributary States to imperial China. Thus their culture have huge Chinese influence. The commonality one sees between Taiwan and Japan can be attributed to 50 years of colonization in modern time, however, a majority of similarity occurred because both areas where huge importers of culture, language, and people from the mainland.
That’s a terrible analogy, AC. The majority of European immigrants in North America did not interbreed to any great extent with the natives.
The European immigrants to Latin America, on the other hand, did intermarry with the natives to a great degree. If you know anything about that area of the world, you’d be well aware that these mestizos (and mulattos) are generally not considered white. Latin American societies are heirarchially race-conscious; there are degrees of “whiteness” in places like Brazil and Mexico.
You’re mixing up nationality with ethnicity. A person can be ethnically Han yet not Chinese, such as ABCs. A person can belong to the Chinese nation yet not be Han, such as the Miao and other minorities in the PRC.
Are you going to claim that the aborigines in Taiwan are ethnically Han? Then you’ll just have to deal with the fact that nearly all “native Taiwanese” are only partially-blooded Han; they are the Asian equivalent of mestizos.
Hey, can we talk about Taiwan and Okinawa here :fume: