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Recently, the term "Taiwanese compatriots" sparked a debate on Simplified Chinese Twitter. Mainland Chinese netizens replied with gratitude to Taiwanese netizens and said, "Thank you, Taiwanese compatriots." Unexpectedly, the other side responded, "I'm not your compatriot, I'm not a scoundrel offspring of horses." From a legal perspective of the two regimes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, each considers the other's citizens as its own. Therefore, it's not inappropriate for mainland Chinese to call Taiwanese "Taiwanese compatriots." However, in 2020, a staggering 67% identified as Taiwanese rather than Chinese, while only 27% identified as both Chinese and Taiwanese. Only 5.1% believed in eventual reunification across the strait. Behind these statistics lie changes in historical, present, political, and cultural memory.