tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post3402745275983159939..comments2024-03-26T19:47:09.310+08:00Comments on Lao Ren Cha - 老人茶: The color line is the power line: the new pro-Taiwan generation and attitudes toward foreign blue-collar laborJenna Lynn Codyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04032277820150000198noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-4448792518167762042017-09-06T17:21:43.965+08:002017-09-06T17:21:43.965+08:00I don't think anybody really knows how many Ch...I don't think anybody really knows how many Christians there are on the island. Most published figures seem to be coming from the Ministry of the Interior, which used to make estimates based on what was reported to them from the different groups (i.e. inflated "parson's counts" which include "the quick, the dead, and all the company of heaven"). A Catholic priest of myAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-79525919857215090122017-09-06T14:30:54.955+08:002017-09-06T14:30:54.955+08:00It's not correct to say "practically ever...It's not correct to say "practically everyone is descended from immigrants in recent centuries". Leaving aside what we define as "recent" (many of those immigrants came before my ancestors got on the Mayflower, and yet the US is just as capable of ethnocentric nationalism), first, many if not most Taiwanese who has pre-1949 ancestry in Taiwan have some indigenous/Jenna Lynn Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04032277820150000198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-25037543777071666092017-09-06T14:03:06.937+08:002017-09-06T14:03:06.937+08:00Interesting comment ("a large number of Taiwa...Interesting comment ("a large number of Taiwanese are very, very closely related to the very people they discriminate against"), but that is true of all of us humans, everywhere - even the (largely European) part of humanity with strains of Homo neanderthalis. The whole idea of "race" should have been binned after the bizarre pseudoscience of the Nazis was exposed. As for Am fear eilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05674753734045799719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-41471308785941005422017-09-05T20:02:58.394+08:002017-09-05T20:02:58.394+08:00What is so tragic is that a large number of Taiwan...What is so tragic is that a large number of Taiwanese are very, very closely related to the very people they discriminate against. NONEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00312011183953017842noreply@blogger.com