Poll: Can Taiwanese be considered as Chinese

[Tiqua]

Originally posted by: rh71
iinnnnnnttteresting.

And it wasn't the communist against the non-communist. It was more the KMT (kaomintang) against the Taiwanese.

I'm using Taiwanese in this instance for the people who emigrated to Taiwan during the Ming dynasty, not the aboriginal people.

 

[Promethply]

Back when I was still in college, the foreign students from Taiwan and China got along
famously together, as those students considered themselves as Chinese, and had neither cultural nor language barriers when they interacted together.

But in another setting, as when the Taiwanese students were with American students, they usually emphasized the fact that they were from Taiwan, and not China.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: kogase
They are just as Chinese as Pakistanis are Indian. That is, very.

hey no need to insult the taiwanese.

 

[DaveCSparty]

Can't we all just be part of the human race and get along?

 

[Promethply]

Originally posted by: DaveCSparty
Can't we all just be part of the human race and get along?

Unfortunately, politics have this power that prevents all of us from getting along 🙁 :disgust:

 

[0roo0roo]

race has nothing to do with nationality. i'm chinese AMERICAN. so bleh.

as for taiwan. scientists recently found the ethnic taiwanese are closest related to hawians. somehow hawains came from taiwan. i kid u not.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
race has nothing to do with nationality. i'm chinese AMERICAN. so bleh.

as for taiwan. scientists recently found the ethnic taiwanese are closest related to hawians. somehow hawains came from taiwan. i kid u not.

Hawaiian girls FTW!

 

[khurios2000]

Taiwan = Chinese with Democracy

 

[Promethply]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

as for taiwan. scientists recently found the ethnic taiwanese are closest related to hawians. somehow hawains came from taiwan. i kid u not.

True, apparently, the polynesians maternal mitochodrial DNA (mtDNA) is related to aboriginal Taiwanese mtDNA, but their (Polynesian) paternal Y chromosomal DNA is related to the New Guinean Y chromosomal DNA.

In other studies, Southern Chinese (ie Fujianese) mtDNA is also related to several other aboriginal ethnic groups in Southern China, including those of aboriginal Taiwanese, yet their paternal Y chromosomal DNA is just like their Northern Chinese brethrens.

Polynesian includes Hawaiian, Tahitian, Tongan, Samoan, Maoris, etc.

 

[Imdmn04]

Chinese mainlanders don't really hate Taiwanese people, more like they want Taiwanese peeps to admit they are ethnically Chinese.
However, some Taiwanese people is strongly opposed to this. Those are the types that will correct you when you ask them if they are Chinese. They think being called Chinese is a disgrace or something, even though 99 percent of Taiwanse are ethnically Chinese with the exceptions of the aboriginals.

When a Taiwanese calls themselves Taiwanese, it is more of a political statement than anything else. You can safely assume that they are ethnically Chinese.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Chinese mainlanders don't really hate Taiwanese people, more like they want Taiwanese peeps to admit they are ethnically Chinese.
However, some Taiwanese people is strongly opposed to this. Those are the types that will correct you when you ask them if they are Chinese. They think being called Chinese is a disgrace or something, even though 99 percent of Taiwanse are ethnically Chinese with the exceptions of the aboriginals.

When a Taiwanese calls themselves Taiwanese, it is more of a political statement than anything else. You can safely assume that they are ethnically Chinese.

no, it goes beyond addmiting they are ethnically chinese. the mainland chinese don't make the distinction between race and nationality. its a political thing. race based bs really.

 

[chcarnage]

The People's Republic of China never was in power in Taiwan since the PRC was founded after their victory in the civil war on mainland China.

Sometimes civil war lefts behind more than one new - equally legitimated - nation.

No.