The Focus of Indydaiwan 228 Has Been Expanded

    The focus of Indydaiwan 228 has been expanded to include immigrant workers and indigenous islanders in Taiwan under the "Indy" banner. I have already started posting news stories concerning all three tendencies in Taiwan; we are all second class citizens to the Han Taiwanese majority. 

     I am a resident of Taiwan, thanks to my native-born wife. My wife's ancestors, of mixed heritage, came to Taiwan from Fujian due to poor living conditions there or to work the Dutch plantations in the sixteenth century here. Leona is proud of the split-nail on her pinkie toes, a residual trait of aboriginal blood which she must surely have. Like many Han Taiwanese, she comes from a farmer's working class background and has a feel for the underclass. Many Han people in Taiwan have allegiance to China; two million Chinese, aided by the United States military, fled with Chiang Kai-Shek to Taiwan after they lost the civil war with the communists in 1947. Like many turncoats, she could just as well have sided with side with the Chinese ruling class interlopers and abandoned hope of an independent Taiwan. 

    Though I am a resident of Taiwan, I don't feel like I am a second class settler; not because my wife is born Taiwanese, but because I am a retired citizen of the U.S. "White" residents of European dissent (even more than overseas Asians or African Americans) are treated differently by the Han Taiwanese than foreign workers from other Asian countries who must be on contract to stay here working for their Han Taiwanese bosses. I am retired and do not need to work or put up with conceited bosses of  lesser talent like many of my working class fellow ex-pats must do to survive here. I am not independently wealthy nor am I  hired here by an international conglomerate to assist in their home office outsourcing sweatshop manufacture here.  

     The indigenous people of Taiwan, who have lived here for thousands of years, were massacred and exploited by their Han and European oppressors and driven off their land into the mountains. Many struggle in poverty unable to break through the glass ceiling of Han dominated society. Indydaiwan 228 blog has solidarity with the oppressed of Taiwan, the freedom-seeking independence minded Han, the Asian working class, and the ex-pat European community. 

Power to the working people of Taiwan!