Taiwan is more interesting than you think
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I’m from Paraguay, the only country of South America that recognizes Taiwan instead of Communist China. Both countries have had diplomatic relations for more than 60 years.
Wow! I didn’t know any big countries still did that. Are there many Taiwanese people in Paraguay?
@@JJMcCullough I think Lithuania is also trying to do that now too, after recent issues with China.
@@JJMcCullough well, Paraguay is not a big country. Compared to Taiwan, Paraguay is more than 10 times bigger in size, big it only has less than third of the island’s population. And answering your question, there are like 15000 Taiwaneses living in Paraguay.
I live in Costa Rica. Costa Rica used to recognize the government in Taipei until 2007, when President Óscar Arias decided to switch allegiances to the People’s Republic of China. In return, the People’s Republic of China donated our new national stadium.
The People’s Republic of China has been doing the same with countries in Africa such as Gabon, where they donated Stade d'Angondjé.
Stadium diplomacy, anyone?
El Salvador dropped Taiwan in favor of PRC in 2018 as one of the parting "gifts" of the leaving administration. It is a damn shame since there is a sizable community of Taiwanese people here.
*Another fun fact about Taiwan:* Its last dictator, Lee Teng-hui, was educated in Iowa and received a Bachelor's of Science before returning to Taiwan to be indirectly elected as President while the country was still under martial law. He later democratized the country and became its first directly elected president. Polls on historical presidents of Taiwan currently have him as the most popular Taiwanese president.
I always find this kind of funny since Xi Jinping (current head of Communist China) was also educated in Iowa.
As such I will forever imagine Iowa's unofficial slogan being: *"If we had a nickel for every time we made a Chinese dictator we'd have two nickels, but it was still weird that it happened twice."*
So many world leaders are educated in America but it’s always funny to hear about the ones that weren’t able to get into Harvard or whenever. Like The old president of Egypt went to UC Santa Cruz or something if I recall correctly
Another interesting thing is he had a Japanese name, and served in their military,, because Taiwan was still a Japanese colony.
@@Nathan-jh1ho He also was briefly a member of the CCP before he moved to Taiwan, since he went to the mainland after his stay in Japan. Not exactly sure why though...
what an odd coincidence
@@Nathan-jh1ho Iwasato Masao (岩里政男).
As a Taiwanese person (which i guess is rare on your channel lol), I'd like to share some opinions:
1. The sign at 10:43 actually says "I will not speak dialects" which includes Taiwanese, Hakka (another group of Han people), and the aboriginal languages (yes those are considered dialects of Mandarins in the past here). And all these languages do have standardized writing systems, just not widely recognized because they are not taught in schools in the past.
2. The differences between the so called "dialects" of Chinese is actually much wider than European ones, and actually comparable to different European languages. They should really be called languages rather than dialects. I believe Taiwanese and Mandarin are not mutually intelligible if you are not pre-exposed to both of them.
3. The sad thing is, after years of "Speak Mandarin" Campaign, a lot of younger people don't speak their mother tongue anymore, and speaking Taiwanese (or Hakka, aboriginal languages) is still considered "uneducated" by some. There is still a silver lining though, the local languages are indeed gaining momentum in recent years, and more people are learning how to read the languages.
Nah Those are languages. No such thing as dialect with dialect within dialect within dialect. Fuck politics, give linguist a break.
And btw mandarin speaker pretty much has 0 understanding on what hokkien people speak. 🤣
若是汝這陣會曉寫臺語著好啦.莫予汝个母語失傳
@@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 我會曉阿🤣 我嘛贊成台語佮華語是語言毋是方言 才佇dialect彼个字加quotes 我的意思就是有个人叫做「漢語方言」的物件 內部精差比誠濟歐洲語言之間差閣較濟 所以叫做語言比方言適合
@@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 They are Taiwanese dialect of the Min Nan language just like Cantonese are the Guangdong dialect of the Yue language...
@@EricChien95 The current branch of "Min nan" can be separated into further three language. And Im speaking hokkien. Hokkien and Taiwanese is in the same group no doubt, but those other "min nan" like teochew definitely not mutually intelligible. Not just teochew, the longyan, the datian, the hainanese etc.
The minnan is also a linguistic term not what local people refer to as their language.
@@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 I've heard the different "Arabic" dialects are the same. Strange that we group a load of different non European languages together as a dialect rather than a language family. I'm sure someone can invent some imperialist conspiracy theory about reducing the complexity of other societies out of it, but for me I'm pretty satisfied with just saying it's weird.
I’m from 🇹🇼 Taiwan
Fun fact: In Taiwan, Taiwanese citizens on average visit the doctor 15 times a year, since our country has one of the finest Health Insurance System (like 🇨🇦 Canada), but the price is really really cheap!
Great Video Btw!
I heard it's not so great for the medical staff, though.
Taiwan's healthcare is a big part of why I have no plans to ever move back to USA. Taiwan is amazing, and my life is so much better in Taiwan❤️🇹🇼💙
@@CaptainsMorning 40% income tax doesn't equal free healthcare if you didn't know
@@daftcow706 nice choice of screen name😉
Taiwan doesn't charge 40% income tax.
I appreciate the compliment as a Canadian, and I'm thankful our healthcare system is free, but it isn't the greatest in the world. Compared to most other rich countries it's slow and ineffecient, and it takes a very long time to see a doctor, especially with COVID. Canada's healthcare system is just better than the United States (especially if you're poor), and because of geography we're mostly compared only to each other.
I'm very thankful to have been born in this country, but I wouldn't say we're the very best in the world on healthcare.
The guy who made this jigsaw obviously wasn't trying to present a sanitized version of his country--good for him.
I mean the DPP faction often brings up the sins of the former regime.
You have to represent a sanitized version of the US or you will be cancelled
Or her.
@@rogink I think they showed the author and they were male.
@@chaosXP3RT don’t let the vocal minority get you down
JJ: “Fascinating Island Nation”
China: *-100 Social Credit Points*
Person: Taiwan is a countr-
China: *executes*
Only -100? He is lucky he is still breathing. He lives in Vancouver, BC, Province of the PRC.
@@kyrstensinemahatespoorpeop9666 I mean Taiwan is still the name for the Island.
I'm anti CCP and so and so. But the whole "social credit" comments have become karma whoring and hacky.
Blacklisted lol
One interesting fact about Taiwan is that Taiwan was a Japanese colony from 1895-1945, and in fact, Teruo Nakamura, who was the last Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, in 1974, was an Aboriginal Taiwanese who's birthname was Attun Palalin. He had been hiding on small island in Indonesia not knowing the war was over.
There was actually a whole bunch of Aboriginal Taiwanese who fought for Japan during WWII, called the Takasago Volunteers. In general, Taiwanese attitudes about Japanese colonization were complex. The Japanese could be repressive, but they had set Taiwan up as a model showplace colony, and used sort of both a carrot and stick approach in Taiwan, both going out of their way to assimilate Taiwanese, but putting a lot of money into the economy and allowing a good deal of local control. It gets more complicated because when the Nationalists took over Taiwan, they cracked down very hard on Taiwanese culture and anything they saw as dissent, and their heavy handedness led a lot of Taiwanese to look back more fondly on Japanese rule.
Japan successfully brainwashed the island and downplayed the history of slaughtering the indigenous "Mountain People". Taiwanese were forced to learn Japanese language and take Japanese names, forbidden to practice their own culture and tradition. Much like what the white did to indigenous Indians. There was a famous Taiwanese movie about the history a few years back. It was not an interesting fact. It was a painful and brutal history. I guess the young Taiwanese people just don't care about that any more.
@@tamulemon
We still care.
We just care more about our modern colony and brainwash.
Nationalists successfully brainwashed the whole generation of our parent to believe that there is already no colony in Taiwan.
@@tamulemon
After WWII, KMT from China forced all aboriginal people to have Chinese names in the very first year. If Japan had not conquered the mountain areas in earlier 1990s to 1930, after KMT came, the Chinese Mainlanders would be the targets of the aboriginal people who still practiced headhunting. Also, the aboriginal people would be slaughtered by KMT like KMT did in 1947 to other ethnic Chinese people in the flat areas.
So when are we getting J.J in Taiwan?
Yesss, when are we? 🙊 😂 I love JJ's content.
Holy balls it's Prozzie.
I'm one of those hundreds of thousands of chumps who know you as that dude who used to ride with Matt and Winston back before the CCP got all angry.
Maybe one day we can build a lasso out of nano-tubes and pull Taiwan next to California. Keep being a bro. 🤘
@@alexjgilpin let’s do it!
Hey its you been a subscriber for a while keep up the good work man
Hey Prozzie. I'm big fan of your channel. And J.J. as well. Am also watching a lot of content from your buddies, Winston and Matt.
Just a slight correction, the indigenous people of Taiwan speak Austronesian languages, not Polynesian. Polynesian languages are a subset of Austronesian, but they're only really spoken in a specific part of the Pacific, whereas the larger Austronesian family includes hundreds of highly divergent languages in places like Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and even Madagascar.
Also fun fact: despite the huge spread of the Austronesian family away from Taiwan there's still a lot more divergence between the languages in Taiwan than outside it. The most accepted theory subdivides the family into 13 primary branches, 12 of which are spoken on Taiwan, with all the other ones forming the 13th Malayo-Polynesian branch.
I went to one of those aboriginal villiages before. Just down the hill a bit the language is already quite different.
Yeah, the "pacific islander" term is probably better said as Austronesian, the people who migrated from the island of anicent Taiwan, down to the Philippines, through the pacific islands, and also throughout the Malay archipelago, and also Madagascar and potentially some islands in the Indian Ocean.
The traditional thatched roof style in Japan reminded me of things seen in pictures from Polynesia. Perhaps the connection is from Taiwan to Ryukyu to Kyushu.
@@JMM33RanMA There's actually some evidence suggesting that Japanese has an Austronesian substratum (or even base), likely from the Kumaso, Hayato, and Azumi peoples of Ancient Japan.
Also, the Kra-Dai people of Southeast Asia may also be Austronesian as well.
@@Innomenatus That's very interesting. The Japanese language that I encountered is closely related to Korean, which is part of the Siberian language group. It used to be called Ural Altaic but the recent research has moved on from that. The grammar of the two languages is almost identical. There is a hypothesis that Gaya [or Kaya] was the bridge to Japan, and it is thought by some that when it was extinguished by Silla and Paekche the upper class went to Japan and the Imperial family may be descended from them.
There is a triangular exchange in language, religion and culture between China, Korea and Japan that has been going on literally for ages. The Koreans have been slowly abandoning Chinese characters in favor of their own alphabet, and in the south many people now use English loanwords where former generations used Chinese. This has been a problem for North Koreans who get to South Korea.☮
In Wales we had a similar punishment for children caught speaking Welsh at school. They would be forced to wear the ‘Welsh (k)not’, a piece of wood with WN carved into it, hung around the kneck with string. If another child was caught speaking Welsh it would be moved onto them, and so on. At the end of the day, the last child wearing the WN would be caned. This ultimately resulted with children weaponising the language against each other, with those wearing the WN trying to get others to speak Welsh within earshot of teachers so that they can avoid the caning.
Okay now this is something I’d also love to see a video on, and more so Welsh culture/history
My heart hurt reading this. I hope Welsh is being promoted again.
@@Raynieryful for context, this was between the late 18th to late 19th century. Today there’s roughly 880k speakers in wales, a million overall globally (mostly England, so not far from home). In Wales numbers are growing, promoted strongly by the devolved Welsh gov. Mae gobaith am yr iaith yn y dyfodol.
The KMT copied it from the Japanese hougen fuda or Dialect card, the japanese used the same shaming punishment in Okinawa, the japanese supposedly got the idea from the French Vergonha and the Welsh Noto.
Same thing in France. For the longest time there would be signs in school courtyards with the sign "Soyez propres, parlez français" (Be proper, Speak French) with the aim to eliminate regional languages like Breton, Alsatian, Occitan, Catalan, Arpitan, Corsican, Creole and others.
Taiwan is honestly such a great example of how asian countries modernizing and stepping towards the future. I hope more and more asian countries will follow its' footsteps. Also the fact that Taiwan is the ancestral homeland of all austronesian and pacific islander nation would be an awesome reason to base a diplomatic/cultural alliance for insular southeast asian and polynesian countries. 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
It is called westernized not modernized . Ehh no thanks .
@@kdamprae4236 you can modernize without becoming westernize
@@lancetheking7524 taiwan deeply westernized they use English name (look at this person for example) they've been wanting to make English their official language they choose western ideology and culture over their own and they wish that upon other Asian ? shame .
@@kdamprae4236 they need the help from the west so they have to appeal to the west
@@Glory_to_Arstotzka and be the west lol
Taiwan is a country that I often visit because of its tolerant of diversity in culture, religion and freedom of expression. Taiwan is the beacon of Asia democracy💖💖💖
I always thought Taiwan was just the ultimate version of Home Alone
Welcome to Taiwan where you are home alone!
Didn't expect to see you here
@@PurPurDot what
I don’t get it.
Lmao
My mom grew up in Monterey Park, California, a town of mostly Han-Taiwanese immigrants. Granted, she grew up on the more Mexican/Armenian/Jewish East LA-ward side of town, but having gone to high school in the same area, Taiwanese dishes are a staple of my teen years and I miss them dearly.
Woah there’s a lot more immigrants then I thought. I remember when my dad was becoming a US citizen there were lots of Asian people from many countries in the east.
Today, Monterey Park is dominated by mainlanders and immigrants from Hong Kong. The Taiwanese immigrants have moved to other cities like Rowland Heights.
Didn’t expect to see you here sir. Hello👋
I once dated a young woman in college who grew and went to school in that area. I would always mess with her by introducing her as my Chinese girlfriend. And ask her to sing for me from time to time.
@@Goffe909 blah blah blah I'm a white guy who dates color ppl I'm sophisticated 🙄 ,
Coming from taiwan, at first I saw this video as a potential landmine. Personally, the most racist and discriminatory thing one can say to a Taiwanese is to judge on its political standings while having zero idea on how the situation actually is. I'm glad that this video's outlook is mostly historical and real history rather than those redditor searching for that low-brow civil righteousness high of crticisizing something. This is probably one of the best videos on CZcams about Taiwan now and I am really looking forward to you finishing the puzzle.
As a Taiwanese living in Canada, I’d like to point out that the population of Taiwan wasn't 95% Han Chinese despite the official document said that. In fact, most Taiwanese's ancestors are major Han Chinese and Taiwanese indigenous peoples, such like me. However, after ruled by Han Chinese and Japanese for three hundred years, many real history and cultures was buried. My indigenous ancestors are Siraya, which lost memories, cultures, and language before my grandparents’ generation.
There have been interesting academic studies of identity in Taiwan showing how claiming indigenous identity has waxed and waned depending on political circumstances. I believe as more Taiwanese have their DNA checked, it will become clear that many have a significant genetic contribution from pre-Han indigenous Taiwanese. Culture, however, is from shared lived experience, not from blood or distant (and sometimes forgotten) ancestry. It may be true that Taiwanese people have a very significant genetic inheritance from non-Han indigenous Taiwanese (I've seen estimates higher than a third, as for example with my Taiwanese wife, who has a lot of aboriginal DNA), but the percent of Taiwanese identifying with those aboriginal cultures and living with those cultural activities at the time of the 1946-1950 mass movement of mainlanders to Taiwan was probably around 5% or less.
Masusu ta imhu ki su ka maka Sinkan? Yang (Yuag) is a predominant name from 蕭壠社. Is that where your family is from?
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@@BBarNavi Pretty close, but my family is from Danei districts. My ancestry is Bakaloan (目加溜灣).
The fun fact is that even though Taiwanese President is classified as Hakka Chinese, her grandma is Paiwan aboriginal.
A lot of Taiwanese are like that.
Being half Taiwanese I was super surprised to see this video come out from your channel! Taiwanese culture, history, and politics is more vast and complex than people realize. Thanks for covering this topic!
My girlfriend once told me she was Taiwanese when I called her Chinese. I then had a long conversation with her regarding the complexity of the issue itself and how she views it.
@@Goffe909 Many Taiwanese people view themselves as "Chinese" ethnically and culturally, but "Taiwanese" nationally. But also many young Taiwanese think there is a separate "Taiwanese" culture and ethnicity separate from China, which is a step too far.
@@gkky-xx4mc My girlfriend tells me that constantly. Yet, I always introduce her as Chinese. I worked in China right out of university and it was ok. Aside from the police and censorship. I cannot wait to see what Xi has planned for them.
@@Goffe909 At least you didn't refer to her as Thai. 🤦 It's a very common point of confusion.
Personally I'd feel disrespected if someone introduced me as anything but Taiwanese (it would feel like they weren't listening to me before) but I do believe it depends on the person.
@@maira3590 I dated a Thai woman before. I'm not that dumb I just act dumb. She knows I'll never call her anything other than Chinese.
13:32 Just to clarify, Chinese doesn't have an alphabet, but rather a writing system. An alphabet (like in korean) would imply more or less a standard character for each sounds, a syllabary (as in Kana japanese or Cherokee) implies a character for each syllable, and a character system (as in Chinese and Kanji in Japanese) implies a character for each word or idea.
You're totally right, but I'm pretty sure Taiwanese mandarin does actually have an alphabet. My Taiwanese friend got upset that I wasn't learning it, but I had no idea it existed because I was studying Simplified Chinese.
@@guacre2675 yes, bopomofo or Zhuyin. However that is a way of pedagogical tool to teach toddlers and children (or foreign students) how to pronounce characters when they aren't yet capable of memorizing characters and a means of phonetic input for keyboards. That is not their writing system, nonetheless. It's the equivalent of Pinyin in mainland China, you can input Chinese in Pinyin or Zhuyin but you'll never see a book, a street sign or a newspaper written in those scripts.
Yes, Chinese isn't written in an alphabet in the sense of alphabet proper where ideally, each phoneme is represented with one grapheme. But he used the term "alphabet" to mean "writing system", which is completely valid colloquially. And a "character system" is referred to as a "logographic" writing system. More examples are Cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Linear A, most Mesoamerican scripts, Tangut, the Khitan Large script, Jurchen, etc.
@@rvat2003 Soooooooo, he was wrong, colloquially speaking, hahaha
@@luisfer9361 Practically he is not wrong but if he wanted to be specific then there are better choices.
Correction: The native aboriginals are Austronesian in ethno-nationalistic terms.
Polynesians are Austronesians, but only refer to a specific branch of Austronesians who settled the Pacific.
the fact he got those two mixed up in a video abt taiwanese history is embarassing
I’m a mixed kid from Taiwan and America and I always love hearing people talk about Taiwan because it’s not really recognized in some places and some people don’t even know Taiwan existed. I find it great to learn and reflect in these moments
You're literally the female version of me
@@nathandrake5544 you are me but i'm not american and all we really have in common is being half taiwanese
@@yvette8415 im half dutch half taiwaness
@@DragonYeng Now I'm curious what mandarin sounds like in a Dutch accent
I’m also half Taiwanese :)
FUN FACT: The Tsai Ing-wen Administration is currently trying to push for the English language as one of its official languages. Also, Tsai’s name translated in English is literally “English”
Its interesting that a ton of non english speaking countries nowadays are integrating english as one if their official languages. European countries, many south american countries, india, taiwan etc.
now that's what I call nomative determinism
@@sookendestroy1 I don't think any Latin American country has English on an official level, the closest to it would be Panama but Panama bordered the US owned canal so the influence is there. English is used as a lingua franca in India and Europe plus Ireland is still in the EU and they speak English, Every nation that has English on an official level has an history with an anglophone nation, but Taiwan doesn't so that's quite strange.
@@jackyex English is the official language of Belize, in central America.
@@jackyex Well Taiwan certainly has a history with the U.S. But it does make a degree of sense Taiwan wants good U.S relations with china on there doorstep. And it's a good common Language to have when you're close Military allies are the U.S, Australia, and Japan(of all places). The less time spend translating in a military conflict the better.
JJ : “Let’s learn about this island nation”
China : *Stares In censorship*
China probably doesn't like him already due to his videos against both Falun Gong and the CCP
@@TheSteam02 good, being disliked by the CCP is a badge of honour, means you're doing something right
Welp, he called it a nation in the first minute!
@@janaeshepherd5854 You need to watch John Cena's video. He knows Taiwan isn't a country.
@@RumchugMusic is it or isn't it? I've been to Taiwan and been China. Taiwan has their own customs, defense, government, and coinage. My Chinese friends hesitate to go because there because they would need a visa. Why would you need a visa to visit a place that is part of your own country? Join Cena says it's not a country because he loses a lot of $$$$ if he disagree with the CCP by calling Taiwan an independent country.
My country doesn't officially recognise Taiwan - BUT I DO! I even bought a Taiwanese-made motorcycle that's been a lot of fun. Taiwan is cool, I hope to visit!
Thank you - from Taiwan :)
Taiwan is a pretty underrated country.
Small linguistic note: the family of languages originating from Taiwan are called Austronesian languages. Polynesian languages are a thing but they are a specific subbranch of this Austronesian languages. The Austronesian languages of Taiwan are collectively referred to as the Formosan languages (based on the old name of Taiwan, Formosa).
Cool
I always wondered about if Formosa is a more genuine name for the island than Taiwan historically since it is just what passing Spanish(?) sailors called it when going off to trade with the Ming and then Qing.
Fun fact: Taiwan is a country despite what John cena tells you
ya...kinda like quebec
Wat? But John Xina told me the CCP is the greatest government ever! How could they lie?
@@beaverchicken I know i was sad when I found out
Calling Taiwan a Chinese province is like saying Canada is a US state.
@@alexhaowenwong6122 it's not nearly that accurate...
I lived in Taiwan for a few years. It’s a wonderful country for expats. Super friendly people, great public transportation, cheap accommodations. Etc. So nice. Thanks for making a video about this lovely country!
Friendly for expats…? Tell me what you have been smoking 😂
@@radiumdude the sweet smoke of experience.
@@kylawiebe well… then you are missing the experience of comparison.
@@radiumdude alright then give a reason why it's not friendly
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Most important: Language. Hardly anyone speaks English, even in Taipei. Groceries and everyday items: very limited choice, bad quality and overinflated prices, unstable supply. Every village discounter across Europe has a better portfolio than Jason’s here in Taiwan. Horrible traffic and rogue drivers everywhere, noisy and filthy city for the most part.
I have been moving across many cities in Asia, from an expats perspective, Taiwan is the most challenging place in multiple ways. Doesn’t mean there are no goods things.
Hi, JJ! I'm from New Taipei City, in the north of Taiwan, and I really enjoyed this video! Taiwan is such a great country and we are much more than our conflict with China. A part #2 would be great!!
I audibly cheered when JJ said "souvenirs" . I am both mortified and unsurprised.... We always learn something interesting so it's totally normal to react this way right? Hapoy Saturday everyone!! 👍
Happy JJ Day!
Pretty sure JJ would like Jerome, Arizona.
Currently a Belizean living in Taiwan. Taiwan still has several diplomatic relations with smaller countries around the world such as Belize, Guatemala, St. Kitts, Swaziland, and a few others. They offer these countries ICDF scholarships to the citizens of these countries to learn in Taiwan’s universities. Many of us stay here after graduation however so the international population while small is steadily growing in Taiwan.
I continue tapping my forefinger waiting for Canada to do the same.
As a Kiwi with a Taiwanese partner, I was really impressed by your comparison and insight of us embracing our indigenous cultures as a way to differentiate and juxtapose ourselves from our larger nations. Spot on!
A further similarity is that both countries have special legislative seats reserved for aboriginal members that only aboriginal citizens vote for.
Howdy partner
I’m currently living in Taiwan and am hoping to start a masters degree focusing on the country next year. Great to see others taking interest in Taiwan’s history.
This video was incredible! Hoping for part two!!
lol Bella (from Half Asleep Chris) at 6:57
I was thinking this
I'm from mainland China. I’m pleased to see that finally someone has covered in depth about Taiwanese society and it’s history, rather than simply saying “Taiwan is not China”. Taiwan has a long, complicated history and politics that is hard to make sense with even for Taiwanese themselves.
Exactly
Are you pro unification or independence
Well, you have to blame the CCP and its internet trolls for that.
I mean no Taiwanese, except Indigenous people and SE Asians who married Taiwanese, would said we are not Chinese. But Chinese means a lot of things other than nationality, its also and ethnicity and culture.
And guess who's the one saying everyday to everyone over everything that Taiwan belong to China. So its normal for Taiwanese to simply rebuke with Taiwan is not China since China don't even want to have an in-depth discussion with Taiwan over this unsettled issue. Can you imagine what Americans would feel if UK keeps saying US is belong to UK.
I'm a British National living in Taiwan (Kaohsiung, South Taiwan) now for 11 years .... please come visit and experience the fabulous hospitality and beauty of this Democratic country.
Daily reminder that Taiwan and China are separate sovereign nations
why does taiwan claim mainland china and Mongolia then?
@@jessieFSD why don’t you ask them? My comment is true regardless of what you’ve said
Hi, I’m Taiwanese. And I’m glad to answer your question. And the answer is , I don’t know either.
Taiwan relinquished their claims to Mongolia in 2002
@@jessieFSD I can give you an example. Imagine the north lose Cvil war,and have to flea to Cuba. 70 years later, they still claim whole nowadays United States of America territory. And still call themselves “United States of America”.
I used to date a Taiwanese girl and since then I fell in love with her country. It's a great mix of Pacific Islands, Chinese culture with some Japanese influence. I really hope to go there someday.
As a Taiwanese teenager. I'm pretty glad to see people introduce our culture to other people in the world. You even tell something that I didn't know before. I appreciate that :)
I'd love to visit Taiwan at some point. I was obsessed with Taipei 101 (former world"s tallest building) as a kid.
I always like JJ's plushy of Tiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen its so cute
I had to put her in the closet with all of the other world leaders dolls to make room for the globe
@@JJMcCullough So you have a Trudeau plushy?
@@akshatvendha3398 It's a fake news.
@@yuchenn
No. It is true because there is no record of the library catalogue for Tsai's thesis. Tsai created different versions of fake documents which are contrast to each other. You are a liar too.
@@akshatvendha3398 Woke
love from Paraguay to all of my Taiwanese friends
🇹🇼❤️🤝🇵🇾
I love Taiwan ever since I studied there for one semester. Great decision to go there. Absolutely fascinating place! Thanks for this video!!!
When I was in Taiwan, the natives described their culture as the mix on Japanese and "new" Chinese because, at that point, both cultures had dominated the island back to back for roughly the same amount of time.
An interesting side effect of the rare timber part: After typhoons a lot artists and art suppliers will rush to rivers near the mountains to seek out rare wood that might have washed down after storms
I visited in 2015 and loved it. Great people, food and architecture. I was planning to visit again in 2020, but the borders shut the day before I was scheduled to arrive.
11:37, here in Mexico we speak a dialect of Spanish that is only spoken in the southern part of Spain (specifically Seville). We do not use third person plural when speaking with groups of people like Spanish people do, we do not use "vos" like Argentinians when referring we say "you", and our S is not a retractive like the S from other Hispanic Nations.
J.J. does a Taiwan episode!!!! Woohoo!!!!
I've lived here since 2012, this country is amazing. Glad you mentioned the forestry part.
the virgin peoples republic vs the chad fascinating island nation
This once again convinced me, that I want to go and visit Taiwan at some point! I know a couple of Taiwanese people and their descriptions of the country have always been quite charming.
This is amazing! I live in Taiwan after several years of travelling to and from this beautiful island. The deep dive on each of the pieces while covering the history and cultural significance is enthralling. The mandarin pronunciations could be improved, but eh, as some of the phonetics are not very consistent with North American pronunciation it makes sense the way in which you read the names. From independent rule to colonization to democracy there are many interesting examples that can be learned from the Taiwanese society.
Taiwan is awesome, I went there on a month long study trip while I was learning Mandarin and it's such a fun place. The people are awesome, the island is beautiful, the food is great, I could go on. It's amazing to think about how different the PRC and ROC are despite their similarities.
Yet another award winning JJ video!!! Thank you for making these. They're so much fun!!!
What awards did it win?
He’s back, finally always fun when JJ uploads
I know this is a gimmick account, but I have to ask:
What is in the reconciliation bill that you don't like!?
@@SamAronow I like the bill as myself as a person but I think she said it was a big amount of money to spend on.
Her big corporate donors*
Another fun fact about Taiwan: Taiwan(ROC) is one of the founder of United Nation.
Sorry. The founding father of modern Taiwan is actually President Li Teng Hui. Without him, we won’t have our democracy
Can't agree more. Unfortunately many KMTers hate him that.
Need to visit Taiwan one day. Always been fascinated by it ever since learning about modern Chinese history and the origin of the Austronesians.
Visited Taiwan a few years ago. Absolutely wonderful country with wonderful people. And a really vibrant culture of democracy as well.
11:00 this sign saying 我不說方言 is more like "I will not speak dialects" or "I will not speak topolects" for those who oppose the term "dialect"
I appreciated the fact that the artist included both the good and bad aspects of their country’s history, simply presenting it as it is.
Nice use of "Papers, Please" at 5:02.
6:38 As someone who’s learning kanji (Chinese characters used in Japanese), I love how the white dolphin’s Chinese name adds up to “white sea pig.”
Water-related animals' name is really interesting in Chinese. sea pig is dolphin. Sea horse is sea horse. River pig is puffer fish. And river horse is Hippo.
@@niu-3- Hippopotamus literally comes from Greek, meaning river horse
That's because chinese doesn't have an alphabet (or least when written formally) unlike other languages that may use Chinese characters (i.e. Japanese that can use Katakana, and to a lesser extent Korean), so we have to make up names for new animals and inventions.
Dolphin and pigs both belong in Cetartiodactyla,so it's oddly accurate in a way
One Old English word for the ocean is hronrāde, which translates literally as whale-road.
Thank you so much for the well-written and well-informed of Taiwanese history. As a Taiwanese-American it's great to see someone who works so hard learning about my country's culture
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Thank you for making this video！
One of my best friends is a Taiwanese nationalist and his girlfriend is Chinese nationalist. Seeing them talk politics is always a joy to watch. I remembered talking to her about how different passports are. I live in the US and we were touring Houston for the weekend. We both show each other’s passports and when my friend sat down with us, she abruptly showed me the part of her Chinese passport which claimed Taiwan as part of China’s sovereign territory. While she had a good fake laugh out of it, my friend was not amused in the slightest. Needless to say, there was another fun argument.
In TAIWAN'S passport they also claim they are China hence the name republic of china
@@KinLee919 The sole reason Taiwan government cannot get rid of China' from it's official name is because China threaten to invade Taiwan if Taiwan do so.
The 'I will not speak Taiwanese' sign reminds me of the Welsh Knot used by the British government to punish children for speaking Welsh.
Edit: A lot of people have been telling me that it wasn't the British government that enacted this policy, and they're probably right.
As fair as I am aware, the British Government never mandated such a thing, it was an invention of some Welsh schools (this was at a time when the language was seen quite negatively by Welsh elites, who saw it as an impediment to progress). In fact, I believe after a report was sent to the government describing the practice, there was a call to stop it.
@@Croz89 There was little government oversight of schools until 1899 in the UK anyway, the board of education was only created then. Widespread public education is largely a product of the late 19th century and early 20th, prior to that it was piecemeal and depended on local councils and parish organizations to organize and hire teachers for schools. The British government wouldn't have been directly involved in such policies at the time since the schools were not organized by the Crown. Though the British government certainly influenced those policies with discriminatory language policies for government positions, like you couldn't be a lawyer in Wales if you didn't speak fluent English, which created a lot of pressure on any family that weren't labourers or farmers to make sure their children spoke English.
@@ifeeltiredsleepy It's complicated, because there was a large Anglophilic population within Wales itself too, those who saw a future further assimilated into a more unified British culture, and were at least partly responsible for the suppression of the traditional language and culture of their fellow countrymen, and possibly more so than anyone in England. There's a lot of emotion around these things, particularly in recent years with the rise of regional nationalism and, dare I say it, an increase in anti-English sentiment.
And to be fair, a lawyer who didn't speak English probably would still struggle nowadays in Wales. At least they weren't saying they couldn't speak Welsh, just that they must speak English or be bilingual. It's probably pretty close to what is the case with Taiwan when it comes to Taiwanese and Mandarin.
This isn't quite true. As a Welshman myself, this was obviously a dark period in our history but it wasn't the policy of the British government to abolish the Welsh language in schools, particularly being spoken informally by students in class (if anyone can provide proof that it was, I'd be keen to see it.)
The punishment of Welsh speaking was done almost universally by local Welsh teachers against Welsh students. There was a view at the time that the Welsh language was anachronistic and useless in the modern world - they felt that they were doing good by encouraging students to use English exclusively.
It was wrong, but I don't agree that it should be used as a stick to beat the English with, particularly when it's propaganidized towards younger people to drum up support for Welsh independence based on historical grievances.
The difference is that Hokkien is spoken today by hundreds of millions of people in China, Malaysia, Singpore, Indonesia, and Taiwan. Not so much Welsh.
Man I just found your channel and it's quickly becoming one of my favorites. You provide so much value with no filler. Thank you for making such great content man
What I remember best from my brief stint living in Taiwan in 2014 is how safe it is. I would often ride my bike around town at 2 or 3 in the morning without a care in the world. Also, as far as I know, Taiwan has one of the lowest rates of sexual assualt in the world because of the implementation of things like CCTV-monitored "safe zones" at train stations and a relatively strict penal code for sex crimes. Also betel-nut beauties and scooters. Lots and lots of scooters.
JJ is making quite the strong statement by acknowledging Taiwan in the first place
I moved to Taiwan last year! Also, Taiwan recognizes every aboriginal language spoken here, Hokkien (Taiwanese), and Hakka, as well as Mandarin and English as "official languages" which is pretty cool of them!
Great video! I'm an American living in Taiwan and you did a great job. Much of Taiwan was settled in a similar time period to the US. I live in a county with a high indigenous population. There are some county parks and hunting grounds which are run by and for the Indigenous tribes. One thing to note, many of the indigenous are Christians; this is partly because of American missionaries shortly after WW2.
I'm from Victoria, BC and I run a scuba shop / bar in Taiwan called Scubar. My business partner's name is JJ McCaulla.... lol (he's from Missouri) Anyways, so happy to see this video. Taiwanese culture... well, there is a strong divide in Taiwan's democratic theology where people either want to be closer with China and others feel China is a bully. It is sad that China doesn't want warm relations with Taiwan but instead chooses intimidation. Anyways, here is safer than even Canada (except the traffic).
Haha I hope there's something about Kenting National park. It is kinda a crazy place. You got a tiny desert, a micro-jungle, cliffs, mountains, coral reefs, AND scenic beaches all within a 30 min drive.
It was a very fascinating video. Taiwan is not a place that's talked about much in the greater Asian context except when people are talking about Chine. And it couldn't be any more further away from us... Literally. Taiwan, formerly called Formosa by Portuguese explorers, is an antipode with the Argentine province of Formosa. Taiwan is almost exactly the furthest point in the world away from my country of Argentina.
I don't know a lot about Taiwan, but I do know this:
Taiwan #1!
as a taiwanese, i love your introduction of taiwan ;) will love to know more of your puzzles stories 😊
Taiwan is my second home. Love it there. Wishing it all the independence it wants.
In my elementary school we had Taiwan month. Taiwanese food in the cafeteria, and we did all the hobbies they did while watching their history and stuff. That changed my life forever, and ever since as a child Taiwan was my dreamplace. Lol. Uh oh.
Please make part two of this video! Love it
This video’s so amazing 🤩 I went on exchange to Taiwan in 2016 and seeing you make a full video about its culture just makes me so happy 😆😁 I want to see more!!
This was really cool I've been wanting to learn more about Taiwan because my fiance's grandmother is Taiwanese and he is very close with her she doesn't talk much about it but I know her culture is important to her
This video is great. I can't wait for part 2. I wanna see you go over all the pieces
Oh my I’m so surprised to see Taiwan showing up here in this channel! My hometown Taiwan.
It is absolutely fun and interesting for foreigners and locals here r always friendly regardless ur nationality.
I hope people from the world could visit here post pandemic.
When I was a kid in the 80s, I remember looking at the bottom of my My Little Pony and seeing "Made in Taiwan". I think they made a lot of those plasticky toys back in the 80s.
yea! taiwan was going through industrialization around that time and mass production was how we started off our economy. you can see the trend now with china, with many toy/objects being made there
Interesting thing about Taiwan’s indigenous community is that while most Chinese people get 2 votes in elections (one for districts and the other for party list) indigenous people get 3. They get one more for aboriginal candidates. Also I always found it interesting that aboriginals typically support the KMT despite the DPP’s efforts to apologize.
The reason to this is because the people who founded or are in the DPP party were beneficiaries of the imperial Japanese, tsai eng wens family were actually intellectuals who profited off the colonialism during the 50 years. The imperial Japanese treated the Aborigines absolutely horribly wrong and even wiped out a whole tribe of ayatal.
In China ethnic minorites taking the Gaokao get extra points compared to Han Chinese students.
In China ethnic minorites taking the Gaokao get extra points compared to Han Chinese students.
Not really
For indigenous people in Taiwan they can choose to vote in a normal geographical electorate or an electorate specifically for indigenous, but not in both types of electorates.
Thus, in Taiwanese legislative elections, a Taiwanese voter would cast 2 ballots regardless of being indigenous or not: 1 for electorate and 1 for party list.
I believe this is true in New Zealand, maori voters get an extra vote for maori districts. Though I don't believe there is actually any requirement for the representatives to be maori themselves though.
One thing I've always liked about Taiwan (talking as an outsider looking in, take with a grain of salt) is how open they are about talking about the faults in their society.
In both the USA and China there is a much more blinding idea of patriotism where apparently criticizing your country means you don't love it.
You know the whole:
"The Liberal snow flakes hate America and they want to teach our children that America is terrible" when it comes to talking about America's faults.
Or with Mainland China basically saying that everyone who criticizes China is just afraid of China's progress and that they are just being racist and know nothing about China.
Basically when it comes to the East Asian countries (even when compared to Japan and South Korea) Taiwan just seems like the country that is willing to do the most self reflection.
You are so correct! 😊👍🇹🇼
Yes I noticed that as well, it seems to be a country with a very healthy democratic spirit and culture.
The Taiwanese refer to Hokkien (a Chinese language) as "Taiwanese"... completely erasing the existence of natives and Formosan languages. Likewise, all place names in Taiwan are of Chinese root written in Chinese characters. This is dissimilar to the common preservation of indigenous place naming in the Americas. Taiwan is a fun place, but what you're saying is patently false.
(Some place names stem from Japanese imperialism, but the point stands.)
"The Liberal snow flakes hate America and they want to teach our children that America is terrible"
The reason this sentiment exists is because there are plenty of people who criticize the people, often in hyperbolic terms that lack all historical context.
@@JJMcCullough What are your thoughts on the refusal to renew the broadcasting license for Chung T'ien TV because they criticized the Tsai administration?
Damn now I want to know more about Taiwanese culture.
Perfect timing. I’m actually in the process of applying to teach English in Taiwan to elementary school students, so I am always searching for more information on Taiwan.
From personal experience, I will predict you will fall in love with a Taiwanese woman and get married and never leave Taiwan again.
I'm saying this because I know about 10 guys that went thid route, no shame in that, I'm half Taiwanese and I'm glad I exist lol
That 'I must not speak Taiwanese' punishment by the Mandarin government also occurred in South Africa; but replace the 'Taiwanese' part with 'Afrikaans' and the 'Mandarin' part with 'British'.
It occurred all over the world. Having a single unifying langue was and is important to the health of a nation.
To the power elite, its "ours is the one true ideology and you shall bow before it."
The US got it right: NO official language. A handful of other countries have similar positions.
@@alchobum fun fact, Taiwan also has NO (at least de jure) official language
@@guppy719 it's important to have a single language in which all of the population is fluent, but discouraging regional dialects and languages has always been a mean of control and castration of minorites. Here in Italy code-switching is basically constant between Italian/regional dialects/languages/slangs
What is Mandarin Government?
What a cool puzzle board! Very intricate and educational
Man, thats a thorough video of Taiwan background. Thanks so much of spending great efforts making it!
Clicked this video on a whim and ended up learning a lot! Great vid
God damn that mullet is hitting different.
I love that he called it an "Island Nation" :D I sincerely hope this doesn't get flagged
He also called it a country, which is more significant
It will be flagged for sure. You do not challenge the CCP on the Chinese Taipei situation.
Everyone commented here is also flagged!
Why not? I hope he does and fights back against Chinese communist propaganda
That's a good way to educate people of their culture and history. John Xina would be proud.
What a great video! Please, complete the puzzle and make other video (s) about it!
What a fantastic video! I'd love to see more of this sort of video, exploring what the world has to offer through your perspective. I remember finding your views on Japan very interesting.
I'm a bit obsessed with Taiwan, lol. It is the Asian nation I want to see most (yes, an independent nation) and I'm always wary about the CCPs action against them.
Zhōngguó will have reunification with its people. Chairman Xi is a strong leader who will do as he did with Hong Kong. I always tell my girlfriend I will visit again once Xi is in power.
better get going fast, something tells me, Xi wants all the han nations, by hook or by crook
The ccp can’t risk losing a war to take back Taiwan so for now they aren’t going to any time soon
@@Goffe909 Wumao
@@Goffe909 you mean unification. Why do you not think Xi is not in power?
Hi from Taiwan! I’ve been following you for a long time and really enjoy your content. Thank you so much for making a video about my country!
Ive been talking about trying to visit Taiwan ! This video was so informative for telling us about the foundations that make modern say Taiwan.