Jeremy Lin to Cash in on His Newfound Fame in Asia?

*If anyone comes back to this feed, my bad, I’ll stop with the bad pseudo history lessons.

Isn’t Taiwan called the ROC because for years after the Chinese civil war the Kuomintang represented China, from Taiwan, in the United Nations Security Council? I thought most people who migrated to Taiwan after the civil war considered themselves mainland Chinese, while those who had been in Taiwan for many generations before that (ie. under Dutch and Japanese occupation) didn’t feel so close to mainland. Then there are the native indigenous islanders who were displaced and treated poorly the way most indigenous people are in the world.
Correct me if I’m wrong? I’ve never been to Taiwan (only mainland) so you’re right, I don’t know what the general opinion is.

After the Chinese Civil War, the losing party escaped to Taiwan, taking with them the Republic of China title. In China today, the ruling party is PRC, a competely separate governing body, and which remains Communist. In Taiwan, while the ROC title is still entact in history books, the ruling party is KMT, which is Democratic in nature. Probably the easiest comparison, though not the most accurate, is Britain and the United States. The US was supposed to be an English Settlement, that obviously came to a stop and everyone here declared independence and went to war for it. The difference with Taiwan and China, and please keep in mind that this is heavily abridged, is that China has never come out and said Taiwan is no longer a part of China, and Taiwan has claimed independence for quite some time. Taiwan operates independently, has their own money, languages/dialects, government, and GDP. It’s a small island, thats for sure, but its people, and I use that only because I’m speaking of the majority, considers itself Taiwanese. I’m sure the common Taiwanese or Mainland person couldn’t care less about who owns what as long as their way of life isn’t disrupted. But as far as politics and national pride go, they’re very distint. Lots of lives were lost during the civil war, and lots of survivors and their descendents (that I’ve met and had long conversations with) hold quite a large grudge with the Mainland. It’s not as openly easy to understand, especially if you’ve never been there, but even if a person agrees to being Taiwanese or Chinese, I’ll bet you they’ll clear up their answer right quick if you ask them where they’re from. I’ll say I’m Chinese in a heartbeat, because that’s what I am in the general sense. But if you asked if I was Mainland Chinese, I’d clarify that I have nothing to do with that country. You can tell where a person’s from just by listening to them speak Mandarin Chinese, just like how you can tell an American from a British person. But just because they speak the same language (technically), it doesn’t mean they have no problem being confused for the other. The indigenous people were treated extremely harshly, just like the American Indians. But I don’t know why you brought them up, since if you’re speaking about Americans, you wouldn’t say, “You know Americans, and by American’s I mean American Indians…” The people who immigrated from China to Taiwan after the civil war are just that, people who immigrated from China. They’re not Taiwanese, and I wouldn’t expect them to consider themselves so. Just like how 1st generation immigrants to American often don’t consider themselves American. I’m Chinese-American, but that’s because that’s the only option on most forms. Actually, I’m American, because I don’t have citizenship anywhere else and I need a visa to go to Taiwan. But if you pulled one of those “no seriously, what are you?” types of questions that most Americans like to ask, the answer is Taiwanese-American. The average person can’t tell the difference, but that doesn’t change anything.