Great program, thanks for producing and posting this! Most people never learned much about Taiwanese history, unlike the much mythologized Chinese and Japanese histories...
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Taiwan should bring Taiwanese dialect as its official spoken language. Mandarin is the Beijing dialect chosen as the national spoken language. But very smdll percentage of people live on Taiwan could trace their ancestry to Beijing. Even for the bulk of those who came to Taiwan after WW 2, Mandarin is not their home dialect at all. Alnost everyone in Taiwan could speak and understand Taiwanese regardless of the origin of their ancestry. Hence it is perhaps acceptable to most thatTaiwanese should be chosen as the official spoken language for Taiwan. Keelung people that welcomed the first lot of KMT troops that arrived in Taiwan after the end of WW II saw something that summed up the attitude of the KMT administration jn Taiwan. The Keelung residents noticed that the unifogm worn by the officers and sergeants and corporals were all new and smart looking. Their shoes were perfect. But the ordinary solidiers were in RAGS with holes and buttons missing. Their shoes were just straw shoes. Some Keelung residents asked one of KMT troop officers about the difference. The KMT military officers replied that the ordinary soliders had been criminals who were convicted for violent crimes in China. They had been given conditional pardon in exchange for joining KMT military to come to Taiwan. The officer then said thst shluld the Taiwanese dare to not comply with KMT government instructions and regulations, the convicted criminals wouldn't have much qualms in keeling or maiming Taiwanese for KMT. The KMT already were prepared to kill regardless as many Taiwanese as possible to enforce its authoritarian rules.