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Israel is able to get away with a LOT of shit. Like if any other nation offered “birthright” tours for people who belong to the ethnicity and religion of the people in charge of the nation we’d be saying something, right? Like that’s weird no matter what
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Anonymous 19w

Taiwan actually has a similar program for diasporic Chinese kids which is informally called “love boat” and it is also intended to make the diaspora support that government. It just isn’t as popular and isn’t phrased as a “birthright”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19w

Shipping kids off to Taiwan under a program called the “love boat” is also sketchy but for different reasons

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19w

The official name is Overseas Compatriot Youth Taiwan Study Tour. It’s called love boat because of what the college-age students would get up to

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19w

Diaspora tourism is pretty common to many nations, it’s just unusual for Taiwan’s and Israel’s to be deliberate political strategies. And Israel’s stands out because a big portion of it is telling American kids they deserve the land more than the Arabs who are living there.

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