70:, because this is incorrect. More often than not, the person is ethnic Chinese who may or may not have Austronesian ancestry, but the family has been completely sinicized, hence the Sinitic surname. Also, the person may not hold a "Taiwanese nationality" if that person is born in the USA. The former nationality of the parents is irrelevant, and that person would be "Chinese-American". American by nationality, Chinese by ethnicity.
94:. It's very ambiguous, and it paints a picture that Taiwan is a nation-state formed by the indigenous Taiwanese people, a place where ethnic Han people just assimilate into. Well, the reality is quite the opposite. The Republic of China retreated to Taiwan and ruled there with the KMT government in charge, sinicizing all those who lived there and making Mandarin the official language of the Republic of China.
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I personally may describe a person as having "Sinitic origins", because "Chinese" may be too nationalistic and "Taiwanese" is too ambiguous. If a person has ancestry from what is now
Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and England, then I'll say that the person has "Germanic origins". Again, the -ic
83:"Taiwanese" with purpose and intention, then they may want to emphasize the former nationality of their parents instead of ethnicity, presumably thinking that that is more descriptive; and they especially don't want to be associated with the Chinese or overseas Chinese derived from the Mainland.
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Addendum #1: One argument for the use of "Taiwanese" may be that it is used as a self-identifier. However, my viewpoint is this, people don't live in vacuums, and they do adopt whatever the general society uses, even if that usage is misleading and ambiguous. If a person does self-identify as
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Austronesian blood and cultural heritage and want to emphasize that despite the Chinese side and Sinitic surname, maybe because of sheer hate of the PRC (aka China colloquially).
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Or perhaps, people are partial to the
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With that said, if you are ethnic Han, speak some kind of
Sinitic language and have ROC citizenship, then you are a Chinese citizen. The Republic of China has always been the government of
32:, even though many countries recognize the People's Republic of China as the only government of China. The people of the ROC is *Chinese* by nationality. The shortened name may be
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Actually know the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality, and stop using them interchangeably! A person can never be of
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Many people conflate nationality, ethnicity and race. So, I am going to spell it out for you, if you are here reading my User Page.
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1. Nationality: citizenship. If you are a US citizen, and all your official documents show it, then you are an
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2. Race: what you look like. If you have dark skin, then you may be Black or Brown, but most likely not White.
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People do this to the Hmong people or the Hoa people... so why not the ethnic
Chinese people in Taiwan?
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indigenous people of Taiwan (2% of the total population, by the way, as opposed to 98% ethnic
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There's my vent. It's a common annoyance that I find often on
Knowledge (XXG).
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3. Ethnicity: your language, culture, food, traditions, people and history.
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focuses on a people's ancestry and ethnicity than nationality.
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words are very useful in talking about ancestry and ethnicity.
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