I think we may be talking at cross purposes. I'm a Brit too, and I'm well aware of the history you describe. If anything, you've presented the truncated version: English/British interference in Ireland goes back more…
I would not disagree with you. In fact, I was led to understand that this is not a recent phenomenon, and that even before the flight of the Nationalist government to Taiwan, many (most?) Taiwanese did not consider…
But there's a difference in that "America" or "the Americas" can include a much larger area than just the USA, while that's not true for the countries you list. China is agreed by both the PRC and the RoC to include…
> but just like people don't consider India to be "Asian" American people, maybe: in the UK, the word "Asian", referring to a person and without other qualification, will usually be interpreted as Indian, Pakistani,…
I think we may be talking at cross purposes. I'm a Brit too, and I'm well aware of the history you describe. If anything, you've presented the truncated version: English/British interference in Ireland goes back more…
I would not disagree with you. In fact, I was led to understand that this is not a recent phenomenon, and that even before the flight of the Nationalist government to Taiwan, many (most?) Taiwanese did not consider…
But there's a difference in that "America" or "the Americas" can include a much larger area than just the USA, while that's not true for the countries you list. China is agreed by both the PRC and the RoC to include…
> but just like people don't consider India to be "Asian" American people, maybe: in the UK, the word "Asian", referring to a person and without other qualification, will usually be interpreted as Indian, Pakistani,…