Recently, many groups on Facebook have been discussing topics like the enlightenment of Taiwanese literature and Taiwanese culture. However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that what these groups consider Taiwanese literature and Taiwanese culture is a self-castrating, buffet-style obscene culture.
They believe that authentic Taiwanese culture and Taiwanese literature only count from the 1920s onwards.
These groups even plan to ignore the Taiwanese culture and literature of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even completely avoid touching upon the Japanese colonial era between the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki and the 1920s, attempting to portray all history before Japanization as a barbaric era.
⛩️ Colonial Adoration Mentality and Stockholm Syndrome
This kind of local culture and literature, which only emerged with the Japanization era promoted by the Japanese Empire, is entirely due to the colonial adoration mentality of the recent “Taliban Green Camp” (a derogatory term for radical pro-independence groups) and their “authentic Taiwanese values.”
Everyone who talks about localism lives in an unrealistic fantasy about the Japanese colonial era. In contrast, South Koreans, who were also subjected to coercive colonial rule by Japan, have no goodwill towards the Japanese, and even made the Japanese government publicly apologize to them. This is a complete contrast to the Taiwanese situation.
It makes one wonder if these Taiwanese people have all contracted Stockholm Syndrome.
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