Original sentence: Both Taiwan and Hong Kong have long held powerful influences on Mandarin-speaking communities around the world regarding trends in food, popular culture, and fashions.Taiwanese people have been present in Vancouver in the late 1970's and early 1980's, but it seems as if many of those immigrants have moved to the United States and have become part of the Taiwanese American or Chinese American communities.The Greater Vancouver, BC metropolitan area offers comfortable living and the conveniences of Chinese shopping centers and grocery stores that provide that food and entertainment that Hong Kong Chinese and Taiwanese were accustomed to prior to arriving in Canada.There is a sizable wai-sheng ren (mainlander) community as well in Vancouver, but they tend to identify themselves more as Chinese Canadians
Edited sentence: Both Taiwan and Hong Kong have long held powerful influences on Chinese-speaking communities around the world regarding trends in food, popular culture, and fashions.Native Taiwanese and "Taiwanese" Mainlanders have been present in Vancouver in the late 1970's and early 1980's, but it seems as if many of those immigrants have moved to the United States and have become part of the Taiwanese American and Chinese American communities.The Greater Vancouver, BC metropolitan area offers comfortable living and the conveniences of chinese shopping centers and grocery stores that provide that food and entertainment that Hong Kong Chinese and Taiwanese were accustomed to prior to arriving in Canada.There is a sizeable wai-sheng ren (mainlander) community as well in Vancouver, but they tend to identify more as Chinese Canadians