I was going to remark on the crazy "puts Okinawans in danger" framing, but then I looked at this guy's timeline and it's a trip. He lives in Hawaii, and wants Hawaiian independence from the US? And Ryukyu independence not only from US military bases, but from Japan as well?
And what's with his Japanese tweets? Some kind of exaggerated Ryukyu dialect? I can't understand it at all.
I haven't looked at his tweets, but Hawaiian independence is kinda an important thing to support if you're against american imperialism. America literally illegally annexed an independent nation and filled it with enough white people to vote for it to become a state, and now native Hawaiians are subject to homelessness and abject poverty because their land is beautiful so lots of multinational corporations have set up shop to suck up all the tourism dollars and they have a hard time making ends meet because cost of living is so high
The "Japanese" in his tweets is Okinawan. It's a separate language that is written with the Japanese writing system, for obvious reasons. Most people in Okinawa speak an Okinawan dialect of Japanese, but this is different. It's a bit like Welsh or Irish in regards how the population is treated.
Hm. It's the combination of it being 80% understandable as heavily-inflected Japanese and the people responding to him in perfectly understandable Japanese that threw me, then.
Well some of his writing is just Okinawan dialect, and not actual Okinawan. Though I don't know how much the average Japanese person understands of Okinawan. Though I've always been curious.
I was going to remark on the crazy "puts Okinawans in danger" framing, but then I looked at this guy's timeline and it's a trip. He lives in Hawaii, and wants Hawaiian independence from the US? And Ryukyu independence not only from US military bases, but from Japan as well?
And what's with his Japanese tweets? Some kind of exaggerated Ryukyu dialect? I can't understand it at all.
I haven't looked at his tweets, but Hawaiian independence is kinda an important thing to support if you're against american imperialism. America literally illegally annexed an independent nation and filled it with enough white people to vote for it to become a state, and now native Hawaiians are subject to homelessness and abject poverty because their land is beautiful so lots of multinational corporations have set up shop to suck up all the tourism dollars and they have a hard time making ends meet because cost of living is so high
The "Japanese" in his tweets is Okinawan. It's a separate language that is written with the Japanese writing system, for obvious reasons. Most people in Okinawa speak an Okinawan dialect of Japanese, but this is different. It's a bit like Welsh or Irish in regards how the population is treated.
Hm. It's the combination of it being 80% understandable as heavily-inflected Japanese and the people responding to him in perfectly understandable Japanese that threw me, then.
Well some of his writing is just Okinawan dialect, and not actual Okinawan. Though I don't know how much the average Japanese person understands of Okinawan. Though I've always been curious.