Chinawhite

Just a few questions

1. How much people refer to themselves as taiwanese rather than chinese
2. Is there a spilt between pan-blue and pan-green in daily life
3. What are peoples general opinion toward the PRC
4. How much people have been to the PRC
5. Is there much thought to a possible conflict
6. Whats the influence of japan culture in taiwan

xinhui

I am no expert in this area, so take my post with tons of salt!!!

Just my personal view.

1. both, most of them (80% will consider themsevles Chinese/Taiwanese) really deplan on situation. 10 Percent especally with military tied will consider themsevles Chinese only. 5% will consider themselves Taiwanese, there are 2 to 3 percent who consider themsevels Japanese (those who were left over during WWII) and 2 to 3 percent are Indigenous folks. Interestingly enought while both Japanese and Indigenious folks supports TI, but they really hate each other consider the ethnic clearning campiagn the IJA conducted (including using of gas) in 1930s, they were almost wipe out. the indigenious folks are the one who takes the hardest line against Japan in their fishing/island dispute.

2. Not so much up north, there is more down south. You will be surprise to find many folks in Taipei are "southerners" who moved north because jobs. All the ladies at my favorite water hole were from south. (no, not that type of place) Simply put, there are
more jobs up north. Politic is politic, family is family.


3. They really don't like CCP. It is somewhat mixed regarding PRC. They tend to welcome a concept inline of a “Greater China” ie, a Federal system. However, there is an economic reality that is why overwhelming of TWese support status quo. Of 22 million ROC citizens, 1 million of them live in PRC full time, 400,000 in shanghai alone is a huge statement no matter how one tries to spin it.


4. See item 3
5. …Not much.... not with currently leadership of PRC and when the ROC military clearly stay loyal to KMT.

6. a great deal, but don’t over read it. Even Angry youth from ML China watch Japanese anime. Hack, Canadian watch the same TV/Movies as the Americans, but they have different outlooks.
Older TW folks from south tends to view positively of “traditional” Japanese culture. While younger generation tends to focus more on Japanese pop cultures. Folks up north have stronger Han identity.

Chinawhite

Very good replies.


Just a few more questions

1. If pan-blue wins in 2008 will people be more inclined for re-unification
2. Why did the DPP do so poorly in the '06 pre-election
3. Is the standard school hours from 9am~7pm?. My cousins been telling me about the standard of taiwanese schooling, the hair cuts, dress codes etc. Does all this time at school imporve your education
4. Whats the influence of korean clture in taiwan
5. Will taiwanese rather money or independence, which one would make more sense to an average taiwanese
6. Is there a time schedule for direct trade between taiwan and china
7. How close is taiwan and PRC culturally

xinhui

1. You need to understand the difference between a “representative government” and a pure democracy. You will aswer your question when you understand those two concepts.

2. I know what you are getting get, but the answer is not that simply. Prez Chen spent way too much time in politic and nothing gets done, for an example, you can research on the nuclear power plant crisis. Chen does not know how to reach out to legislature branch of the government, having Premier Chang to cancel a law just pasted by legislature is not a smart PR move. Just because KMT did it before, that does not mean Chen can do it. KMT did it because they control both the legislature and the presidency. Like I say, he is a good politician and used his political capital to force his agenda thought during his first two years. However, his hardline approach in domestic alienated many some of the undecided voters when it came to the 2006 election. In short, after 2004, he really had nothing to show for in his domestic front. As he was too busy fighting for TI. Most of the day-to-day ops were in the hands of Premier anyways.

3. School uniform makes better student? Not going to touch this one.

4. I see what you are getting at. Yes, Korean Soap Oprea is very popular in TW (and in China for that matter, Jiang ZM loves that sh!t. many youth Taiwanese is interested in knowing more about Korea culture but they are as strong as that of Japanese culture, Hello kitty dolls are every where, I mean everywhere.

5. they want both!! Well, 70 to 80 percent wants status quote and they are recalling Chen, what do you think?

6. Does it matter? if you really want an aswer, not before 2008. 2010? maybe, but, does it really matter.?


7. IMHO, very close to Fujian and Shanghai. VERY close. Then again, Cantonese and Fujianese never see eye to eye. Be careful, be very careful when you ask me about culture, because I view culture with a capitalized K. The German concept of “Kulture” is very different from that of English one. I think you are asking about “national identity/Kulture” instead of culture.

xinhui

Are you a member of CDF? Mr. John Yan, dyan, Bryan C and DOR are much better people to ask regarding politic regarding ROC/PRC (ROC is still the offical name). Those gents are thousands times smarted and better educated then I will never be.

Chinawhite

I meant if they elect the KMT, does that show that the majority of taiwanese support re-unification. The choices are pretty much eventual re-unification or independence

So basically he was more concentrated on TI than Domestic affairs

Im fujianese myself and speak some min-nan hua. Do people picture Fujianese as distant relatives or people of the PRC?

Will do

xinhui

No. The majority of TWese support status quo. They want reunification only and only if China has more demo-crazy (it will help a great deal if CCP is out of power in PRC) type of government. They are not calling for a total western style of libral demo-crazy either.

So basically he was more concentrated on TI than Domestic affairs

Yes you are correct in a way. He also tried to play the race card. In addtion, during the last election he will lose if allowed the armed force to vote, that really pis* the military off.



Im fujianese myself and speak some min-nan hua. Do people picture Fujianese as distant relatives or people of the PRC?

You are generalized alot in your questions, I don't like to sterotype an entire 22 million. Anyways, many folks in TW speak minnan, in fact many times a taxi cab driver would speak to me in minnan (I speak none), they retired in fujian in large numbers, land is cheap, food is cheap, why not (you should know that). and watch minnan channel in cable TV. I would think they think Fujian are relatives. As a side note, many older folks in HongKong moved back to ML also.


CDF is down for a software ugprade. hoepfully it will be back online soon.

667medic

Mr.Xinhui, you seem pretty knowledgable, mind asking whats your profession.
My guess is that you represent some kind of Military Industrial Complex

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667medic

People here in Singapore are also doing it. Infact some companies have business where they relocate old people from Singapore to the Mainland. $100K is nothin in Singapore but it's RMB 500K in ML

Officer of Engineers

Believe it or not, Andy is the most prolific PLA watcher on the internet, and has been sought after by Washington DC for his views. His day job, however, is IT. Andy is one of the founders of CDF. I'll go as far as saying, he is CDF. Without him, we could not have come up with 90% of what is published about the PLA today.

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Ray

I second that Colonel.

It is good thing that Andy has come out of the woodwork of CDF alone and instead is also adding to knowledge out here at WAB.

Sure would love to see him here more.

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xinhui

Thanks Gents for the kind works. I just want to gain an understanding that is all. As for Washington DC, hard to say no to pay vacations and nice hotels.

But day job is indeed IT, but I was with a mil-ind complex, loved the benifit, hated the environments.

667medic

IT expert , I assumed that all IT specs are peacenick nerds who kow squat the difference between a M16 and M1Abrams....
Any way Mr.Xinhui, just joking about the MI Complex

xinhui

I am a peacenick, never own a gun, never will. I did work for a mil-ind complex.

Jay

WTH??? I'm in IT too...

But I wouldve never guessed Andy is in to IT......I can picture you as a porgram manager/director? Not anything below that

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