Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:42:47PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> The only disagreement regarding the US is whether you call it's citizens
> "Americans" or "USians" (*). The phrase "people of the United States" is
> strictly correct and not in dispute.
Of course, like any other country, what matters is
not what other people call them, but what they
call themselves. Likewise for nation. The correct
name for Taiwan is what the people who live there
agree on... what anyone else says 'doesn't mean
a hill of beans' to quote a certain actor in
Casablanca.
So here in Northern Ireland you have two choices;
Irish and British. They are *not* British on the
Andersontown Road, and they are *not* Irish on
the Shankill Road.
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