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  • noun Plural form of Hakka.

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Examples

  • Hakkas are richer and better educated … a comic like this would probably not stir a hair in mainland china

    Global Voices in English » Taiwan: Racist cartoon causes controversy 2009

  • Liu Ming-sung stressed that even though he and Wu were both Hakkas, he has been watching Wu's style for a long time, and was not surprised at all by Wu's disgusting behavior.

    This Restaurant Doesn't Serve Chinese Tourists and Taiwanese Traitors Michael Turton 2009

  • I would argue though, that Aboriginals and Hakkas themselves are voluntary participants in the essentializing of their identities.

    Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

  • For Hakkas it is often during the Japanese colonization or on the Taiwanese frontier in the 18th or 19th centuries.

    Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

  • Aborigines and Hakkas have often been at odds with scholars and ethnic elites who wish to promote false traditionalism that denies these peoples their agency to define themselves and their own culture, seeking to deny their coevalness and place them is a selected, fetishized time.

    Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

  • Liu Ming-sung stressed that even though he and Wu were both Hakkas, he has been watching Wu's style for a long time, and was not surprised at all by Wu's disgusting behavior.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • "Being Hakka" is further confused because many Hakkas are Sinicized aboriginal groups who "became Hakka" when they assimilated to the dominant colonial majority.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • One of the axes of KMT control is an alliance between mainlanders and Hakkas to keep the Hoklo Taiwanese-speaking membership of the party under control.

    Ma Endorses Wu for the Chairmanship Michael Turton 2007

  • Hakkas siis huvitama, et kes autor ja millal see tehtud on.

    Star Wars kui «Püha õhtusöömaaeg» Ulmeguru 2007

  • One thing Kerr credits Japanes education with doing is developing a Formosan consciousness -- under Japan Formosans began to see themselves as population with a set of common interests, instead of Fukienese, Hakkas, and the like, separated by language barriers that Japanese was bridging.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Michael Turton 2006

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