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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"The CCP decides it wants to push something on the algorithms"

*CPC

Also, America does this all the time!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

but you see, in china this is done by the evil government who is accountable to the entire citizenship. in america, this is decided by one of a small number of rich people who were divinely selected by The Market to guide our society.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Oh, sorry, silly me, I forgot...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm still trying to figure out why CCP is the preferred thing in America. It's either to emphasize the "Chinese" part (scary foreigners) or make it look more like CCCP. I have no idea.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

CCCP was the triple communist party

communism is a lil bit weaker now so it's just the CCP

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I'd rather not be reduced to one C in that acronym

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was how Westerners initially translated it, but it's not how the CPC prefers it now so I can only view it as a slight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so it's just western stubbornness like always, I get it. Same reason why I still hear westerners refer to "Burma"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

....Oh.

Oh dear.

All this time, I thought it was the other way around.

I know Burmese that use the word "Burma."

is it not Burma?

God, I hope I wasn't making that mistake.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's officially been the Republic of Myanmar since 1989, but a lot of countries don't acknowledge that name. Notably the US still refers to the country as Burma (Myanmar).

My understandinf is that "Mranma" has been the endonym of the place in the Burmese language since ancient times and "Bama" (like Burma) was a colloquially shortening of Mranma that English speakers picked up on. I think it's still the case in their language that Myanmar and Burma can sound like the same word depending on accent or how it's said.

Officially though it's the Republic of Myanmar. When international diplomats still call it Burma, they're being stubborn. I've only known one person from Myanmar, and he didn't like the name Burma, because it implied that the Bamar people are the dominant ethnic group. This guy had Indian heritage, so that's where he was coming from.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I see.

But I believe that the ML communists fighting in Myanmar call it "Burma."

Or are they call the Communist Party of Myanmar?

Yeah, I'm confused, but I'll double-check right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think internally the two terms are more interchangable than they are in English, since I think they're much closer in pronunciation in the Burmese language.

I would be interested to know if the Communist Party of Burma wants to be called that or if that's just a holdover because they've been around since before the country changed its English name. I don't know their outlook at all or much about them. I know that it was some kind of reactionary military dictatorship that initially changed the English name to Myanmar, but then again "Burma" is what the British colonizers named the country

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

"China" is what Westerners named China, but they still call it Zhongguo in, well, Chinese while, in their English-translated documents, they (officially) refer to themselves as China to give an example.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like, why do I get the feeling that he has no problem with pragerU ads everywhere on youtube, or neo-nazis being boosted on Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Because he believes the CCP exist and not the CPC...