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Thanks for this video, it's great you don't only focus on technology development etc, also culture, and an explanation of family here.
The West was more strict in the 60, 70s, then they become more "happy communists" where they try and be nicer and giving too much freedom.
This has lead the West, mainly the US, Australia, maybe UK etc to have people who don't have direction, don't know how to focus.
So, as westerns companies manufactured their stuff in China, a very ordered society, it drastically pulled up their wealth, whilst the West's children were not given direction and focus, so we're becoming more useless...
I'm white by the way, grew up in Africa, so had an older style education, and life experience growing up
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@Asianometry Thanks!
The problem with the "cultural divergence" theory is that Taiwan is still currently in the process of diverging from Chinese culture. Additionally, Taiwan is still officially under Chinese (ROC) control, which makes it very difficult for Taiwanese culture to become nationalised and centralised. Taiwanese culture is not very well defined, even though it is certainly real, mainly as a result of Taiwan's difficult political status, and also due to the young age of the Taiwanese Nation. Though many families have been living in Taiwan for hundreds of years, the decision of several (not all) Native Taiwanese to declare themselves as a separate ethnic group and nation has been a more recent phenomenon, most probably beginning during the White Terror period of Taiwan. Taiwan's Democratisation only began a few decades ago, and prior to that, Taiwan was under the control of a strict Chinese regime which did its best to ensure that Chinese culture would be retained and that Taiwanese culture - whatever that is - would be permanently erased. Given that Taiwan is such a young nation with such an undefined culture and such a tense political situation, with no effective "motherland" (given that the "Taiwanese Motherland" is currently under Chinese control), it's very difficult to know who is actually Taiwanese and who isn't; vague surveys with questions that are designed to derive specific answers and with very small (and often rigged) sample spaces are not a very accurate indication of general public sentiment in Taiwan, regarding Taiwan's culture and nation-hood. Meanwhile, whilst most Overseas Taiwanese do identify to a small extent with Taiwan, it can probably be said that the majority do not fully regard "Taiwanese" as an independent nationality or ethnicity, and probably have wildly differing opinions from one another in regards to what it means to be Taiwanese; a significant number of Overseas Taiwanese perhaps identify as Han Chinese, and it is quite difficult to distinguish these people from Overseas Mainlander Chinese. With the future status of Taiwan being very uncertain, and with the strength of China increasing, Taiwanese culture will probably continue to radically change and be redefined throughout the years. It's quite possible that different groups within Taiwan may begin to disagree on their own definitions of what Taiwanese culture actually is, given that Taiwanese culture is not very ancient; if you go back far enough, Taiwanese culture is just Han Chinese culture, and pro-independence Taiwanese obviously don't want people to make that connection, so they're going to place more emphasis on recent changes and trends in Taiwanese culture, which, by their very nature of being recent and not integral to traditional Taiwanese culture, can easily become points of disagreement even amongst the pro-independence Taiwanese themselves.
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