kingcrono1 says:

Of course! It makes a lot more sense in a foreign language and computer animated and give them super powers to fight each other. We settle this cage match style!

nomadwolf says:

Except that it’s from Next Media, which is Taiwanese, not Chinese.

aslightlycrankygeek says:

Hastur,

That is what the sheepish governments of the world ‘agree’ to recognize them as in order to appease China to avoid angering the eventual superpower, and thus continue trade with them. The reality is that Taiwan has been a completely separate sovereign nation for decades with no ties to China or the Chinese government. The ‘China’ you seen in their name was forced on it by the greedy cowardly governments of the world, not by choice of Taiwan.

greaterchinaguy says:

#3, #4, #5
Next Media in Taiwan was found by Cantonese entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, with listed parent company and more established sister media in Hong Kong.

Hastur says:

#5

The people that inhabit the island of Taiwan are Chinese. It’s a different country than mainland China but they are Chinese all the same. It’s a matter of ethnicity. What would they be otherwise?

An American living in china would still be an American, right?

Skeptic says:

Hastur, If Hawaii became independent, they would no longer be Americans… right? After a generation or two, would you still call them Americans?

Uncle Patso says:

Oh, of course, it’s all so clear now!

Hastur says:

# 11 Skeptic said, on January 20th, 2010 at 11:06 am

The Hawaiians on Hawaii would probably be called Hawaiians. The Americans would remain Americans.

In Finland, for example, there lives a large group of Swedes. This is a remain from the time when Sweden and Finland was one country. They are still Swedes. The Finns who lives in Sweden are Finns.
Together the people who inhabit Finland are called Finlanders.
If you go to the (finnish) island of Åland you will find that it is almost entirely inhabited by Swedes.
I understand that these notions are hard to grasp for Americans since it is a nation of immigrants. It used to be one of the best traits of the U.S. that once people came there they became Americans. no matter what their past was. That was also the goal of the immigrants going to America. To become part of something new, and better. A very big part of the American dream as I see it. Much of that seem to be gone now though, as the new waves of immigrants everywhere seem more intent on taking their old culture with them instead of adopting their new homelands. It’s the same everywhere.