@PeteS in CA
Chinese and Taiwanese are the same critter,different zip codes.
The reason I asked is I heard a talking head on teebee claim she is one of those mystical "Herpanic" creatures,who are a shade of white that can't be seen with the human eye,but do not have even as much as ONE SINGLE DROP of Indian blood,and you are a racist if you claim they do.
Well, sort of. The Japanese occupied Formosa in 1895 as part of the settlement of the First Sino-Japanese War. Formosa was returned to China in 1945 with Japan's surrender in WW2, and then CKS and his government retreated to Formosa/Taiwan in 1949, ruling there until his death in 1975. So, of the past ~124 years Taiwan/Formosa has been ruled by mainland China some 4 years, and not for ~70 years. And while Han Chinese are probably in the majority, there is an indigenous population as well. I'm a bit history-nutty, so that was why I said "Chinese or Taiwanese".
Even culturally China and Taiwan have grown apart some. Besides the obvious separate governance, the mainland uses a simplified character set for writing that people from Taiwan do not and find difficult to read. Also, the regional accent difference is greater than, for example, the difference between California and the Carolinas or Georgia or New England. One of my children attends a university in China and is fluent in Mandarin; many of my coworkers are from Taiwan. So I'm simply stating what they have told me from their experiences.
This was your mega-TMI for the day,
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