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Name our baseball league the Taiwan Baseball league！
I was terribly dismayed when I learned that the new joint Baseball League was going to be called Chinese Professional Baseball Major League. What a shame that the main league of this sport, which is our national sport and a true component of our national identity and a major differentiation point with Chinese, has a name using the word "Chinese".
Baseball has always been the main sport of Taiwanese, its origin coming from the Japanese era as everyone knows. It was a sport Nationalist Chinese did not play and did not understand when they arrived on our island. They tried to erase this legacy of the Japanese when they arrived but could not. It survived and was even used by Taiwanese to proclaim their dream of independance during Little League World Series many years back. Now it is a sport embraced by all "new Taiwanese" which again makes us different from Chinese. So how can the Sports council let the word Chinese be used on something so typically Taiwanese? Now that the country is finallly ruled by one of our own why can t we just claim loudly our pride to be Taiwanese and our love for Taiwan and stop using terms such as "Chinese" or "China"? The government wants to use Baseball in order to create national unity with a bid at a gold medal for next year s olympics. So why arent they consistent and ask the league to be called Taiwan Professional Baseball League?
It s such a shame that we still use the words "Chinese" and "China" for national bodies. How can we ever achieve cohesive national identity if we keep on doing that?
Same goes for the China External Trade Council. Isn t it time to rename it Taiwan External Trade Council? What about China airlines? The whole world thinks it is a Chinese airiline... How shameful and sad when one has to explain that these companies/institutions are Taiwanese....How can foreign countries ever recognize Taiwan as a country if ourselves we keep using China for our national institutions?
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