Notes from Central Taiwan: Ethnonationalism? Check your mirror
The media kaleidoscope last week gave us another collage of seemingly unrelated news stories. Out of Russia the flow of news stories in which Russian commentators and politicians claimed that Ukraine was not a real country and that Ukrainians were actually Russians continued. Meanwhile a Hong Kong drama called Barrack O’Karma was pilloried in the international press for using a Hong Kong-Canadian actress of Chinese descent in blackface to play a Filipino maid in a TVB TV series. “Actress Franchesca Wong (黃婉華) blacked herself to play a foreign domestic worker, but she is actually a b...
Source: taipeitimes.com