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Wait until you hear about what they did to language!
I mean, it's not just "politics" (inb4 everything is); there's been weird sanitization and cultural collonialism attempts in Emoji and in Unicode since a good while. Consider this weirdness: there's an emoji for Mount Fuji, but not for any other volcano that can (and is) as well-known or important, like Villarrica, Pinatubo or Vesuvius. Why? Other than "nippon icchi namba one", I dunno. Or the fact that there's specifically a section dedicated to japanese food, with rice balls, ramen and such stuff, but not a section for Chilean (or at least Latin American) food like empanadas, cazuela and stuff.