Talk:Taiwanball/@comment-29512319-20190521115254

There's a lot of irony involved with the crazed Taiwanese nationalists who want to "liberate" Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, etc. from the CCP to allow minorities self-determination when Taiwan itself is more Han Chinese than mainland China itself. There's not a peep from them about how the Taiwanese Han violently displaced Taiwanese Aboriginals and reduced them to being minorities, instead opting for the sugarcoated narrative that the two groups simply underwent extensive inermarriage which fused their bloodlines so now they too are "indigenous" Taiwanese (genetic testing has even shown that this is largely false but it continues to be used extensively in Taiwanese "blood nationalist" propagnda).

The Aboriginals still have string dislike and mistrust towards the Taiwanese Han majority because the Han discriminate against them. Speaking as an indigenous American, I deeply sympathize with the Taiwanese Aboriginals. There are also issues within the Han population of Taiwan where the Hakka and Waishengren fear Hoklo chauvinism, and the islands of Kinmen and Matsu outright reject any form of Taiwanese independence as it would theoretically erase their own identities.

The international world tends to portray Taiwan as nothing but a victim and as cause célèbre for the anti-China crowd, rather than a colonial state in itself. I have even been seeing people act like the ROC and the KMT were the "good guys" rather than notoriously corrupt US-funded dictatorships that the majority of people chose to oust. People can hate the CCP all they want, but this isn't a case of history where the "bad guys" won - China was being screwed whichever way it went.