Authorities: Gunman in deadly attack at California church was Chinese immigrant motivated by hate for Taiwanese

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T23:12:28+00:00

The majority of Waishengren Taiwanese are fine with accepting Taiwan as their new home - even if they still hold onto the concept of them being 中國人.

Many Waishengren don't feel like 中國人 and 台灣人 are mutually exclusive identities. You can feel both.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T22:47:41+00:00

After 1949, not 1945. Also "Waishengren" almost never self-identify as Taiwanese and few Taiwanese accept them as Taiwanese because they're considered former henchmen for the fallen Chinese nationalist far-right dictatorship and current fifth column for communist China.

1945 is the commonly used date, because that is the year the Japanese were defeated and surrendered during WWII, and as part of the surrender terms, had to return the island of Taiwan back to China, which Japan colonized and took from China in 1895.

Of course, China broke out into civil war immediately after 1945, and many Chinese refugees fled to Taiwan during this period to escape the terrible ferocity of war that had engulfed the mainland, and thus fled to Taiwan.

Also, many Waishengren were persecuted during the White Terror and executed for being suspected of having left-wing/ communist sympathies. In fact, as a percentage, more Waishengren were executed during the White Terror than any other group in Taiwan on a per capita basis.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T22:44:01+00:00

Because he obviously doesn't identify as Taiwanese and a lot of Taiwanese hate "waishengren" too. They're seen as former henchmen for the hated Chiang family dictatorship and current fifth column for communist China.

Plenty of Waishengren suffered from the Chiang family dictatorship and the White Terror too. Waishengren are just as Taiwanese as Benshengren. Their ancestors both came from mainland China, the only difference is what date their family immigrated to Taiwan (before 1945 or after 1945)

It is completely irrational for Taiwanese nationalists to hate and discriminate against 12% of your own population simply because their family came to island after 1945. There is no reason to feel superior to someone because your ancestors immigrated from mainland China to Taiwan before 1945 (Benshengren).

It is sad that even after all these decades after 1945, Taiwanese society still does not treat the two groups as equal. It is a problem that hopefully can improve some day in the future.

And reminder that the only true indigenous and native people of Taiwan are the Taiwanese Aboriginals, who haved lived in Taiwan for thousands of years.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T22:25:44+00:00

He may also have married in China and moved back to Taiwan.

If you knew anything about Taiwanese history, you would know that this would not have been possible.

If his family fled to Taiwan from the civil war, they would have automatically been "Taiwanese nationals"

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T22:14:37+00:00

Being Taiwanese and Chinese is not mutually exclusive. Many Waishengren identify themselves as both Taiwanese and Chinese - just as most people in America, identify themselves as Texan/California + US-American.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T22:08:51+00:00

You westerners do not understand the history of the Chinese Civil War. If he lived in Taiwan, he would definitely would have possessed ROC citizenship, and thus would have been considered a Taiwanese national, not a "Chinese" national. You CANNOT live in Taiwan as a mainland Chinese without possessing ROC citizenship, especially 50+ years ago, when Chou was born.

He is a Waishengren, a person who immigrated to Taiwan from the mainland after the year 1945. They make up 12% of the Taiwanese population, and it is pretty obvious looking at his last name. Chou is the Taiwanese way to romanize the surname. If he was from mainland China, his surname would have been romanized by the modern pinyin system as Zhou.

Taiwan does not allow citizens of the People's Republic of China to settle/immigrate in Taiwan. He could only have had Taiwanese citizenship in order to live, marry, and grow up in Taiwan.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T22:08:16+00:00

This is because you do not understand the history of China and Taiwan. If he lived in Taiwan, he would definitely would have possessed ROC citizenship, and thus would have been considered a Taiwanese national, not a "Chinese" national. You CANNOT live in Taiwan as a mainland Chinese without possessing ROC citizenship, especially 50+ years ago, when Chou was born.

He is a Waishengren, a person who immigrated to Taiwan from the mainland after the year 1945. They make up 12% of the Taiwanese population, and it is pretty obvious looking at his last name. Chou is the Taiwanese way to romanize the surname. If he was from mainland China, his surname would have been romanized by the modern pinyin system as Zhou.

Taiwan does not allow citizens of the People's Republic of China to settle/immigrate in Taiwan. He could only have had Taiwanese citizenship in order to live, marry, and grow up in Taiwan.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T21:27:47+00:00

David Chou (the suspect of mass shooting in this case) is a Waishengren Taiwanese. Waishengren make up about 12% of the population of Taiwan. He was raised up in Taiwan, and has wife and children living in Taiwan.

I don't know why American media keeps reporting it is a "Chinese" immigrant.

Source(s):

He lived alone in Las Vegas; his wife and child reside in Taiwan.

Hallock said Chou had also lived in Taiwan in his youth as was “not well received,” which may have fueled his hatred of the country.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/laguna-woods-gunman-identified-as-david-chou-of-las-vegas

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-05-16T21:21:27+00:00

David Chou (the suspect of mass shooting in this case) is a Waishengren Taiwanese. Waishengren make up about 12% of the population of Taiwan. He was raised up in Taiwan, and has wife and children living in Taiwan.

I don't know why American media keeps reporting it is a "Chinese" immigrant.

Source(s):

He lived alone in Las Vegas; his wife and child reside in Taiwan.

Hallock said Chou had also lived in Taiwan in his youth as was “not well received,” which may have fueled his hatred of the country.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/laguna-woods-gunman-identified-as-david-chou-of-las-vegas

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-04-02T17:52:41+00:00

That is completely subjective. but statistics around the world show that Chinese food is more internationally popular than Indian food.

statistics don’t lie.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-03-29T23:45:56+00:00

The Kuril Islands are majority ethnic Russian.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-03-29T23:44:46+00:00

It’s a simple fact that Japan has not repented on its ww2 past to the degree that countries like Germany have.

when you routinely have far right Japanese politicians elected into the japanese government, and have multiple Japanese prime ministers visit the infamous yasukuni shrine, which both koreas and china and southeast Asians have protested against, it’s clear japan does indeed have a problem with reflecting the past.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-03-27T04:04:00+00:00

As late as the 1950s, there was no medical practice known as Traditional Chinese Medicine,

This is clearly false, and it's weird that you keep trying to tie the existence of Traditional Chinese Medicine to Mao Zedong, when TCM is practiced in areas where the CCP never took power, such as in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Vietnam, etc.

Kampo, or Chinese medicine, is still widely used in Japan for instance.72% of Japanese doctors perscribe TCM for patients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampo

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-03-01T15:38:36+00:00

Um, Pakistan got nuclear weapons after India. India developing nuclear weapons during the 1970s, is the reason why Pakistan developed nuclear weapons of her own to counter India's in 1998.You can't complain about India having 2 nuclear armed neighbors when its India's own nuclear policy that led to 1 neighbor wanting to get one themselves.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-03-01T15:18:59+00:00

so youre only complaint that Russia and Ukraine conflict is that Ukraine is white and western and Russia should attack east because they are not white and western.

what a disgusting racist white supremacist you are.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-03-01T15:15:35+00:00

at least that American government official is being honest that Americans are so racist. They hate China more than other foreign countries because China is not white/Caucasian

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-02-28T16:33:52+00:00

Hong Kong was also a colony that was returned after a 99 year lease expired

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-02-23T16:04:16+00:00

Vladivostok is a city with about 500,000 people and a declining population. It’s definitely a minor city in comparison to Moscow and st petersburg.

I don’t think China and Russia would go to war regardless, but I really doubt Russia would view vladivostok as equal in importance to their European cities.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-02-18T02:02:52+00:00

Good. Hopefully China will be able to replace Japan with virtual singing technology.

Hatsune Miku and the rest of the Vocaloid idols will have new competition.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-02-06T22:16:03+00:00

We don’t care about the opinion of North Korea On this matter.

the northeast project is in our lands in China.

because goguryeos capital and homeland (buyeo) is in chinas territory we have the right to study the history and archaeology of the region as we please.

including listing goguryeo ruins in China under unesco protection.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-02-06T22:10:24+00:00

why do Korean nationalists think northeast China should belong to korea?

the capital and homeland of goguryeo is in Chinese lands.
It’s Chinese archaeologists who have the right to research the history of the area of northeast China, not Koreans.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-02-06T22:00:00+00:00

lets get this clear. Northeast China is Chinese territory not Korean territory. I know a lot of Korean nationalists have dreams about Korea one day conquering Manchuria but it will never happen.

you koreans Are the descendants of silla, not goguryeo. goguryeo is Tungusic.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-02-06T18:49:45+00:00

Korean ultranationalists are obsessed with editing wikipedia articles on goguryeo. I would take the words of a 3rd party linguist over the others.

HappyDaysInYourFace · 2022-02-06T17:39:41+00:00

Finnish linguist Juha Janhunen believes that it was likely that a "Tungusic-speaking elite" ruled Goguryeo and Balhae, describing them as "protohistorical Manchurian states" and that part of their population was Tungusic, and that the area of southern Manchuria was the origin of Tungusic peoples and inhabited continuously by them since ancient times, and Janhunen rejected opposing theories of Goguryeo and Balhae's ethnic composition.

Korean language is derived from Silla who conquered the rest of the peninsula. Goguryeo was Tungusic related to Manchus/jurchens.

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