jesus man I didn't expect people to get into all this over my comment.
"Han" in my head is the Korean Peninsula ethnicity that the Han Chinese ethnicity is thought to descend from largely because I think it's funny that there's a weird Korean nationalist claim that the Silla were the true rulers of China lol. Han River etc. "Han Chinese" as such to me is "Chinese people of a similar ethnography as Korean people"
In other words, I'm turning it on its head and labeling the imperial entity as being derived from the "lesser" ones.
Moreover,
Most fascinating to me was that he did not seem immediately offended when I mentioned that it was suggested to me that it was the same Han as in Han-Chinese.
bestie what did you expect lmao? See the aforementioned Korean nationalist belief.
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