Global Significance of Tawain
Global Significance of Tawain
Welcome to Taiwan! In this report you will find out
more than you already know about Taiwan, or at least
you should. You see, to tell you the truth , before I
did this report I couldn’t have told you Whether or not
Taiwan was part of Japan or China! Now I know very well
that it is part of China, and many other very impotent
facts about this country, as you will now here in this
report.
Taiwan, like the rest of China, is unique. It has
languages that are a result of different dialects or
languages such as the Chinese dialects spoken in
Beijing, or the Fujian dialect of Amoy, which is spoken
as a majority by the Taiwanese. Other dialects that are
spoken as a majority are the Hakka dialects. Altogether
though, none of these dialects are totally the
“offiial” language of Taiwan.
Some of the older Taiwanese do not speak any
Mandarin at all, but they speak Japanese because the
Japanese occupied Taiwan from 1895-1945. Most
mainlanders speak Mandarin along with the dialects of
their home province. The younger Taiwanese are now more
familiar with English because of it being taught from
the jr. high schools. There are several aborigine
dialects that resemble Malay, but even most aborigines
speak Mandarin and Taiwanese as well.
There isn’t much known about the early history of
Taiwan. We have proved that life goes back in Taiwan
10,000 years. Whether or not the first inhabitants were
the ancestors of the present-day aboriginies is not
clear. Many of the anthropologists, pointing to the
similarities in language and culture, think that the
aborigines came from the Southeastern part of Asia and
are related to the contemporary Malays. Other scholars
say that the aborigines are related to Miao, a
non-Chinese people in southern China. According to
this view, the earliest visitors to northern Taiwan
were from China, crossing the sea at a very remote
time.
The to major denominations of religion in Taiwan
are Buddhism and Taoism. However, it might be more
correct or exact to say that the religion in Taiwan is
a mix of many beliefs. The Confucian religion serves as
a code of ethnic and propriety or the state of being
proper as far as the recognized principles go, Buddhism
helps with corperating the religious concepts, and
Taoism provides a philosophy for the foundations.
Buddhism and Taoism claim some of the same gods, like
Kuanyin and Lu Tung-pin.
The refugees from China migrated to Taiwan 30 years
ago. When they came they brought the unique styles of
every mainland province. Taipei is were the widest
range of great Chinese food is accessible to the
Western tourists....