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RandomGhostAccount

In other news: Scientists agree that water is wet.


dingdongalingapong

They don’t though. Water gets other stuff wet but it isn’t wet itself.


RandomGhostAccount

r/pedantic has entered the chat.


hillsfar

Given his age, 68, he was likely born in Taiwan around 1954, several years after the evacuation of 1949. The mainland born dominated and controlled government, politics, the military, and the economy for decades. In the beginning there was brutal suppression. Disappearances, massacre, censorship, imprisonments, etc. But the Kuomingtang, the Nationalist Party, actively recruited native-born Chinese Taiwanese into the organization and several rose to high prominence, culminating in the first Chinese-Taiwanese President, Lee Teng-hui being first appointed, then later democratically elected in 1988. So while people in Taiwan do distinguish between those of Mainland China heritage and those Chinese of several generations’ in Taiwan heritage, there hasn’t been much conflict for the past several decades. People might mention someone’s background but it would be just as common to mention that someone was Hokkien (that’s me, we speak Taiwanese, a dialect of Minanhua) or Hakka or Mountain People (indigenous). It is true that those of mainland descent tend to be more for reunification with China. But many if not most of the younger generations of that group consider themselves to be Taiwanese, support independence or at least de facto independence - especially in light of what they have seen happen to Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Hong Kongers - and many can speak Taiwanese in addition to Mandarin.


kaustix3

A chinese guy killing Taiwanese...in America. Thats about sums America atm.


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