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I remember some Taiwanese people showing up to a HK rally and them speaking mandarin had people there giving them the side eye. Speaking mandarin = Chinese. You can try to argue this but 99% of people can’t tell the difference.
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OP - I’m worried for your clients if that’s how shallow your reasoning is. It’s like forcing a bunch of poor kids to be your slaves, then one day years later setting them free to fend for themselves. Of course some of the kids will long for the “stability” of the old life, and you reason “look their standard of living was way better under slavery” or similarity, if some wants to come back, “look they were much happier under my oppression”.
Sad reality. To the ones self identified as Taiwanese, you are still Chinese to the rest of the world as far as they can see.
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“Some officials” does not equate to general consensus
Can someone provide a summary pls
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For many middle aged people in Taiwan:
- Grandparents grew up thinking they were Japanese
- Parents grew up thinking they were Taiwanese
- They grew up thinking they were Chinese
- Their children are growing up thinking they are Taiwanese
The Chinese-identifying population of Taiwan is dying out, gradually supplanted by a newer generation that sees themselves as a separate nation, people, and culture.
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1. Using the term “*insert nationality* blood” isn’t just biological. Throughout history, the term “American blood and sweat,” were used in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Post 9/11, and even on 9/11. The Germans used the term “bleed the French dry” at the battle of Verdun. The term “French by spilled blood,” refers to members of the French Foreign Legion who are granted French citizenship through being wounded in wars fighting for France. It’s also a political term.
2. Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese are exactly what you just typed. Malaysian and Singaporean. They’re Malaysian and Singaporean who just happens to have family origins from China, just like Jeremy Lin is a Taiwanese American, or Gary Locke is Chinese American.
There are very few countries today that are 100% of one ethnicity. Japan and the two Koreas are the only example that comes to mind as Japan and South Korea are 98-99% Japanese and Korean, respectively, while North Korea is close to 100% Korean.
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Taiwanese identity is an artificial construct of the government. However, putonghua is also an artificial construct of the government. That one worked out.
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Standard Mandarin (putonghua) was an artificial construct of the Qing Dynasty, based on the Beijing dialect. When the Manchurians fell, the Republic of China promulgated the standard. Ironically, Taiwan was the first and best success story of standardizing Mandarin.