SINGAPORE: After a student from China at Nanyang Technological University alleged that the use of the term “Lunar New Year” instead of “Chinese New Year” is because of discrimination, local Reddit users had a lot to say.MrJasonMason posted a screenshot from a social media post, captioning it “Chinese student at NTU fumes over the use of ‘Lunar New Year’ instead of ‘Chinese New Year’, alleges censorship and discrimination on campus.
The photo shows the title of an article “How the Lunar New Year Is Celebrated Around Asia” with the word “Lunar” struck out and the word “Chinese” written instead.“We’ve always been using Lunar New Year for CNY,” wrote one Redditor, adding, “Typical insecure behaviour from a PRC citizen. Scared the whole world doesn’t know LNY is primarily associated with the Han Chinese race.
A Reddit user wrote, “the korean, Vietnamese and some others celebrate on that day as well. it is not exclusively Chinese. that being said, most of the population here are Chinese and so far the local and malaysian Chinese don’t seem to have a problem with the naming convention. it is only the ultra nationalist CCP supporting Ah Tiongs that has a problem.
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