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How would you answer this, and how would you expect Chinese netizens on Xiaohongshu to answer?

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[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would like to hope no one nation is the future. Replacing one global hegemony with another is not my idea of progress.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm onboard with Wales. Let Wales rule for a bit.

[โ€“] anon6789@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh my, I can't even begin to imagine what a Texan or Creole Welsh accent would sound like if that was the international language! ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

*sneezes* *snorts* *coughs* *clears throat* *yodelays*

I'm sorry, what was your question

[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In one sense, as a key component of the UK, they already had that chance somewhere between the years of 1600-ish to 1945-ish.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heh, I think you've just pissed off Welsh/Irish/Scottish people with that sentiment.

[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

Ehhhhh we Scots should probably not argue too hard. Unlike the other two we joined mostly-voluntarily and were doing our own small scale empire thing beforehand as well. We were rubbish at it, but I don't think there are sympathy points for incompetence. The Welsh and Irish definitely got dragged along wthout a say though