From: scc53091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (TAIWAN!!! 5/18/92 )
Subject: Re: The Six-Year National Development Plan for Taiwan, "R.O.C"
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 15:34:10 GMT

scc53091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (TAIWAN!!! 5/18/92 ) writes:

>This might tie in a little with Luc's article...

>I am not a pro KMT nor pro TI....just to clarify that.
>This is mainly quoted from the December 1991 issue of Sinorama, I sorta 
>summarized a little part of it.  The topic of it is "What is Taiwanese?"
>I might put the whole article on SCT later...don't have much time now...

>This one part said that many Taiwanese students went abroad called themselves
			      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
			      This is in the 60s...sorry about the confusion.
>"Taiwanese" because of their hatred in KMT's acts.  Now, there are even more
>Taiwanese students studying abroad calling themselves "Taiwanese" but with
>different meanings.  When they tell the foreigners that they are Taiwanese,
>they will be proudly waiting for their foreign friends' praises on the great
>economic achievements.  And he went on to say that being separated from the
	  ^in Taiwan          ^the author
>mainland for 40+ years, Taiwan has formed a sub-Chinese culture of its own.
						^or the Taiwanese culture
>With the opening of the visitation (right word?) policy between the Strait and
>the major increase of informations of China, the Taiwanese and the mainlanders
			    ^in Taiwan   
>have gained much more understandings on each other.  On one hand, we
>(Taiwanese) realized the similarity in language and race.  On the other hand,
>we realized that our society and theirs are two completely different worlds.
>The Tien Nan Man incident and the pressures (political & military) from the
>leaders of CCP have increased the Taiwanese feeling that "everybody is on the
							    ^all Taiwanese
>same boat..."  Therefore, the origin of ancestors on the back of the IDs are
				^you know...the Provinces (Fu-jien...etc)
>very insignificant and does not fit into our socity of "the common Taiwan
>experience"...no matter one's pro-unification or pro-independence.  The new
>generation of Taiwanese are not raised in the fear of mind control, and the
>new generation of mainlanders are not raised constantly thinking about their
>"hometown" in China...they're just a new generation who are happy and are
>proud to be "TAIWANESE."

>Paraphrased and interpreted from the article by Ming-Ke Wang
>from Lien-Ho Bao (United Daily)
	in Sinorama, Dec. '91
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>I apologize if some parts of the interpretation did not make sense.  It is 
>very late but I just felt that I should post this...Well, everyone is welcome
>to comment on this.  But, remember that I didn't write it!  So if you have
>something to say, don't direct it toward me.  Thank you!  Maybe I will give
>a better version of it later.

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