Unbeknownst to many, the DPP government has passed legislation in the Legislative Yuan to designate indigenous languages as national languages. The Republic of China has now instantly become the country with the most national languages in the world.
In my opinion, the DPP has once again implemented a stupid policy to hijack pro-independence ideology.
🤦 The Modernization Process of Language and Political Correctness
Within Taiwan Island alone, there are over 28 types of indigenous languages, but the actual user population is extremely small.
Leading international linguists have long studied that the disappearance of languages is an irreplaceable process in the journey toward becoming a modernized nation. However, for the sake of political correctness, the DPP has implemented this meaningless policy, which can only be described by one word: “stupid.”
These Austronesian languages are incompletely developed languages that are practically outdated. They only diverged because various ethnic groups occupied small pieces of land, leading to increasing linguistic differences between them. The current user population is basically land-restricted. This situation is completely different from the universality of New Zealand’s Maori language. Yet, the DPP ultimately implemented this foolish policy for its Taiwan independence party platform.
🔗 Further Reading
- Questioning Sacred Ancestral Mountains: Taiwan Actually Has No Indigenous Peoples
- News Analysis:: Tracing the Changbin Culture in Taitung: The 80,000-Year-Old Question from Africa
- DPP Forcefully Revises 12-Year National Education Curriculum: Chinese History to Be Placed in East Asia Section, Adds LGBTQ+ Gender Equality, Housing Justice, Ethnic Cultural Issues
- Koxinga and the Indigenous Peoples: The Truth of a Maliciously Distorted History of Massacre