Sunday, January 15, 2006

Boing Boing: Chinese Lunar New Year hailed with kitschy pop songs at malls: "Update: A number of Boing Boing readers wrote in to remind us that 'Chinese' New Year is considered by many a culturally insensitive term -- after all, millions of people in Korea and other Asian countries celebrate the tradition. The more accurate term 'Lunar New Year' is preferred. Apologies to all."



I'm sorry, but this political correctness bullshit has to stop. I'm not a Chinese nationalistic chauvinist by any stretch of the imagination but Chinese New Year is celebrated by Chinese, Chinese-style, using the Chinese lunar calendar. What next? They going to claim that the Chinese writing system (漢字) was invented by Koreans/Japanese/Vietnamese?

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