2012 ELECTIONS: Tsai says =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=8C_pseudo_Hakka=B9_label_i_s_=8Cunacceptable=B9_?=(fwd link)

[Dr. MJ Hardman]

What good news!

On 11/16/11 4:50 AM, "Huang,Chun" <huangc20 at UFL.EDU> wrote:

> And Tsai says that if she is elected the president, she would make a
> formal, public apology to the indigenous peoples in Taiwan on behalf of
> the ROC government.
> 
> We could only hope so.
> 
> The KMT party, which founded ROC, and its candidate, Ma, who is the
> current president, have not made such a promise.
> 
> Jimmy
> 
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:36:57 -0700, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:
>> Tue, Nov 15, 2011 - Page 3
>> 
>> 2012 ELECTIONS: Tsai says ‘pseudo Hakka’ label is
>> ‘unacceptable’
>> 
>> By Chris Wang  /  Staff Reporter
>> Taiwan
>> 
>> Labeling her a “pseudo Hakka” for her inability to speak Hakka
>> fluently is unacceptable, since language proficiency should never be
>> judged as a “cardinal sin,” Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
>> Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday.
>> 
>> She said the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) “crude language
>> policies” of the past was the reason her Hakka was not more fluent.
>> 
>> Access full article below:
>> http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/15/2003518359
> 

Dr. MJ Hardman
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/