• x4740N@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I wonder what an Asian person’s perspective on this would be

    So far I’ve just seen people that I think are western

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      10 months ago

      Am asian, am chinese, am amused and chuckled. Because Dragon in chinese is 龙(lóng) and that corgi is definitely long

    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Not Asian, but the real answer is: they’re completely different mythologies, but when Europeans made contact with Asia they decided to use the word “dragon” for the unrelated Asian mythological creature.