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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 10:52:50 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   A few days ago I commented that the Chinese on #Xiaohongshu are sensitive about #ChineseNewYear being called Lunar New Year. (fyi not every Chinese are not offended by this btw, generally Chinese in Malaysia don't seem as bothered, tho we call it CNY).
   I promised I will the content explaining why.
   Interestingly, President Obama has come out to talk about why we should not call it Lunar New Year, so you may find this interesting.

   https://youtu.be/sV8jfIsOgP8?si=4r9ZtyRoJTY_DV9u

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 11:06:39 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • CurtAdams

     @CurtAdams well just don't say this in china lol.

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     CurtAdams (curtadams@urbanists.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 11:06:40 JST CurtAdams

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     @liztai My Asian friends (Viet, Malay, and Chinese) have always called it Lunar New Year.