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Originally Posted by ArchmageXin
And I am not sure where you got the "culturally same as the Japanese", especially since Japan has no traditional history with China other than the occupation from end of Qing Empire-1945 while China been around since the 17th century. And the aborigine people (currently 2% population if wiki is right) isn't exactly speaking Japanese either.
You are still writing Chinese, speaking Mandarin, fly the flag etc. So what make you Japanese?
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Because Japan is seen as more modern, richer, and nicer than China, also since they are a
past occupier, it's apparently okay to feel nostalgic about them, as opposed to the ruling KMT which made a mess of things when they arrived on the island with their warlord mentality. The grass is always greener on the other side.
The Japanese did do quite a bit to modernize the island, this is true, and they also tried to make the Taiwanese think they were Japanese. But the fact remains that the vast majority of Taiwanese are people who speak Sinitic (i.e. Chinese) languages and are culturally Chinese. When the KMT first arrived, they were welcomed as liberators until it was discovered that most of their men were crooks. Then everyone started going "boo hoo mainlanders are mean we don't want to be Chinese anymore", as if the KMT=China, and then you have things like the DPP pop up. If all Chinese were to go by the narrow-minded pan-Green logic,
nobody would be Chinese since strictly speaking modern Mandarin is not the native language of any Chinese region, and each region has their distinct variation of Chinese culture, just like Taiwan. Should they all be independent too?