Hoklo Taiwanese

Hoklo Taiwanese (Chinese: 閩南裔台灣人) are Taiwanese people having partial or whole Hoklo ancestry, and they are the major ethnic group in Taiwan. They speak Taiwanese Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien. Most of the Hoklo Taiwanese are descendants of Hoklo people from Quanzhou or Zhangzhou in Fujian, China. Generally, when people talk about the term "Hoklo Taiwanese", it means whose ancestors immigrated to Taiwan before 1949.

History

The deep-rooted hostility between Taiwanese aborigines and (Taiwanese) Hoklo, and the Aboriginal communities effective KMT networks contribute to Aboriginal skepticism against the DPP and the Aboriginals tendency to vote for the KMT.^[2]

When Taiwanese Han "blood nationalists" tried to claim Plains Aboriginal ancestry in order to promote Taiwan independence and try to claim an identity different from that of mainland Chinese in spite of the fact that their own ancestry is overwhelmingly that of recent migrants from China and genetic tests show differences between them and plains aborigines, their claims were decidedly rejected by the actual descendants of Taiwanese Plains Aborigines, who seek to preserve their own traditional culture since the abuse of claiming their ancestry by Taiwanese "blood nationalists" to create a unique Taiwanese identity based on blood negates the actual significance of having Plains Aboriginal ancestors.^[3]

See also

• Taiwanese people
• Hoklo people
• Hakka Taiwanese
• Vietnamese people in Taiwan

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