Originally Posted by
Kitdy
That was really interesting RM. Last night I read briefly about "native" Taiwanese having problems with the Nationalists coming and running the show.
So did many Kuomintang supporters/Nationalists immigrate near the end of the civil war and/or after it ended?
I also read that there are Taiwanese aboriginals (I meant "native" above as earlier mainland Chinese immigrants) to further complicate things, but they are now a small percentage of population. Are they persecuted?
The people who ran were usually the ones rich and in power, or have the means to run. Remember that Mao plays up the class warfare, as with any communist revolution....I don't know raw numbers though. My grandparents from my mom's side went to Hong Kong a year or so before the actual exodus, seeing something maybe afoot. But all their properties was lost, they eventually went to Taiwan....
The Native Taiwan aboriginals are probably closer related to the pacific rim people from the Philippines and other south pacific islanders. They were initially persecuted in the mainland migration traces back to around Ming Dynasty time. Much like American Indians they ended up retreated to the less accessible eastern Taiwan and the mountainous region in the central part of the island. I think the worse time for them those was during the Japanese occupation in the early part of 20th century...though I am sure there are some friction still after the war when the nationalist came. But at that point assimilation had happened for a while then....
Much like American Indian and First Nations in Canada, the people who want to can stay in their reserve, or they can work and live among others...I think there are seats in the Taiwanese parliments reserved for the aboriginals in every election...
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