know your history.

how do we expect others to know and respect our history if we can’t get our own history right?

"Double Ten Day celebrates the start of the Wuchang Uprising of October 10, 1911, which led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China and establishment of the Republic of China on January 1, 1912."

source: Wikipedia - Double Ten Day

some more reading…
If I Had a Panda for Everytime Someone Said “Happy Birthday Taiwan” - from Tom Tsai

100 Years of History Behind Double Ten Day of the R.O.C.  - from www.taiwaneseamerican.org

also don’t forget… 
Reconsider Columbus Day - from www.reconsidercolumbusday.org