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from using local facilities and purchasing from Taiwanese shops through acts of discrimination. This resentment also influenced the creation of a strong national Taiwanese identity, which eventually led to the Taiwanese Independence Movement in the 1990s. Although no longer dominating the government,
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migrated, with most estimates ranging between 950,000 and 2 million, with 1.2 million being the most commonly cited figure in Taiwan. Newly declassified archival data yielded a population of 1,024,233 mainland Chinese immigrants in Taiwan and the Kinmen-Matsu military zones on September 16, 1956.
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arrived prior to the KMT military retreat. This group consisted of elites, e.g. government officials, businessmen and intellectuals, as well as migrant workers from Fujian. Another significant category consisted of military personnel and their families, as well as soldiers who were
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On the other hand, many of the soldiers and refugees who arrived with the Kuomintang came without their families. Finding themselves destitute in an alien land with no relatives, some of them turned to violent crime or suicide. In the late 50s,
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which allowed local Taiwanese to move up in the government, political establishment encouraged under the Chiang government, and economic prosperity which allowed for social mobility for those outside of the political establishment.
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Starting in the 1970s, Chinese nationalist dominance of the government began to recede. This was due to a lack of a political or social theory that would justify continued Chinese nationalist dominance,
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Today, in practice the term broadly refers to the cultural group of people who migrated from mainland China to Taiwan starting in 1945 when the Republic of China took control of Taiwan after the
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should assimilate into a Taiwanese identity which was separate from the Chinese one. By contrast, the supporters of Chinese unification seemed to believe that all Taiwanese (not just
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find this translation uncomfortable since many of them have lived in Taiwan their entire lives, and the term may lead to possible confusion with residents of the
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was someone whose ancestral home was Taiwan. By this formal definition, a person born in Taiwan whose father's ancestral home is not in Taiwan is considered a
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also put enormous pressure on housing, and resulted in the illegal construction of a large number of shantytowns in Taipei. On the other hand,
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is "this-province people"; however, these translations are politically loaded since they arose in a historical context when the ruling
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elites with political connections could often obtain formerly Japanese-owned properties, sometimes at the expense of evicted
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In the late 1990s, the concept of "the New Taiwanese" became popular both among supporters of Taiwan independence and
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Intermarriage and a new generation raised under the same environment has largely blurred the distinction between
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elites dominated the government hierarchy during the martial law era on Taiwan. The continued influx of
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in 1949. They came from various regions of mainland China and spanned multiple social classes.
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pose some interesting difficulties in translation; most academic literature uses the terms
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Conversely, a person not born in Taiwan whose ancestral home is Taiwan (most notably
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families, it is difficult to precisely define the distinction in later generations.
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from their social spheres. This exclusion often came in the form of preventing
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and its aftermath. Recent immigrants to Taiwan from China are not considered
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elites still make up a large fraction of bureaucrats and military officers.
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Furthermore, the male to female ratio among the immigrants was 375:100.
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people in Taiwan who arrived prior to 1945 who had lived under
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is "extra-provincial people" while the literal translation of
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against the reluctant Japanese colony in Taiwan during
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as "native Taiwanese" leads to possible confusion with
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in order to advocate a more tolerant proposition that
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based on how they migrated. About 26% of non-military
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to it so that it can be listed with similar articles.
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