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LeoXiao · 2014-02-10, 01:13

Taiwanese are culturally Chinese to a similar extent that people from Guangdong, Shanghai, and other places that don't naturally speak Mandarin are. I wish that English had a better way of expressing the difference between 中國 and 中華, as I've met many Taiwanese who say they are the latter but not the former.

EDIT: I've heard another legend that goes like this — in the 80s and early 90s, there were serious negotiations going on to set up a system for Taiwan similar to HK, but stuff like the Tiananmen massacre and the strait crisis got in the way and killed the prospect. This is what happens when you have a country run by communists try to deal with non-communist ones.

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LeoXiao 思想工作 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Vereinigte Staaten Age: 32	Taiwanese are culturally Chinese to a similar extent that people from Guangdong, Shanghai, and other places that don't naturally speak Mandarin are. I wish that English had a better way of expressing the difference between 中國 and 中華, as I've met many Taiwanese who say they are the latter but not the former. EDIT: I've heard another legend that goes like this — in the 80s and early 90s, there were serious negotiations going on to set up a system for Taiwan similar to HK, but stuff like the Tiananmen massacre and the strait crisis got in the way and killed the prospect. This is what happens when you have a country run by communists try to deal with non-communist ones.