you're treading pretty heavily here...maybe a little less dismissive and actually address the questions.Brooklyn wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:21 pm @MD,
Unfortunately you only have a superficial knowledge of the subject and, again, you would be well advised to study up on this subject before posting on it. While I am no expert I did study Mandarin for a short while (did rather poorly I must confess) as I have always had an interest on the subject.
The Hakka are a southern Han Chinese people and have long inhabited Formosa. Chiang Kai Chek was from Xikou, Ningbo which is in the Northeastern part of China. He couldn't even begin to speak Cantonese and I seriously doubt he ever learned to speak Fukkien. Those Taiwanese who were loyal to Mao had far greater claim to the island than did the capitalist refugee usurper from the north.
Again, so what? They were all usurpers...why not ask the current people/citizens of Taiwan who they 'belong' to?
Pretty sure what that answer would be. And exactly why shouldn't that be the most important question?
Or is your problem communism versus capitalism???
And yeah, I know where the Hakka immigrants were from.