Taiwan
- People
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The cultural aspects are also not to be missed. The blending
of Hakka, Taiwanese, and mainland Chinese cultures has produced a rich
plethora of cultural and social color. Whether it is religion, architecture,
language, living habits, or food, it's just one big exciting melting pot!
Food is the best representative of this cultural mixing and matching.
Aside from cuisines from different parts of the mainland such as Zhejiang,
Hunan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Shanghai, Beijing, Sichuan, and others, there
is also the local Taiwanese cuisine as well as the local delicacies of
each area.
Taiwan has a population of 22 million. The larger part
of the island's inhabitants are the descendants of immigrants from the
various provinces of mainland China, but in particular from the southeastern
coastal provinces of Fujian and Guangdong. Because the different ethnic
groups have fairly well integrated, differences that originally existed
between people from different provinces have gradually disappeared.
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Nanzou
Tribe |
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Some 360,000 indigenous people, the original inhabitants
of Taiwan, still live here; they can be distinguished into 12 different
tribes, namely the Saisiyat, the Atayal, the Amis, the Bunun, the Puyuma,
the Rukai, the Paiwan, the Tao, the Sao, the Taroko, the Kemalan and the
Zou.
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