2007-07-18 00:07:48 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Taiwan
Definition: Race
2-1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
2-2. a population so related.
it seems that it could be either. you could divide race as asian, european, etc. or you can divide it as japanese, taiwanese, korean, vietnamese, etc. it just depends on how you define race.
2007-07-19 20:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by Steve Jobs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 2 races are different.
And you should know "Taiwanese" is new concept.
98% of the population in Taiwan is said they are Han Chinese. But 15% of them came from main land China with Chiang Kai-shek to govern Taiwan after WW2.
The 15% was hoping unification of Taiwan and China. But the other 85% was not.
After the martial law was lift in 1987, they started to find new and their own identity. They started to call themselves as Taiwanese.
The characteristics of the 2 races, TW and JP, are very different.
2007-07-18 22:18:42 · answer #2 · answered by Joriental 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Of course they are. I have been all over China and you can divide up different groups but they are all the same race as are the Japanese.
2007-07-19 23:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by Texas Cowboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They could have been convinced they were fullly Japanese, if they had fully adapted the lifestyle, before we fought the Japanese and wrested Taiwan away.
But "race wise", of course they are. All East Asians are classified as part of the Mongoloid race, unless you count what the Portuguese or Dutch left behind. They aren't ******* or Caucasian are they?
2007-07-18 07:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No..Infact calling another race of asiana japanese is an insult...Most other asians hold a grudge against japanese for the attrosities commited againts them during WW2...
2007-07-20 11:37:08 · answer #5 · answered by Tea Bag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, Taiwanese are peole from Taiwan (chinese) and Japanese are people from Japan .
2007-07-19 15:54:10 · answer #6 · answered by anonymous100 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not now.Maybe you need to ask chinese and Japanese ...Are they the same race ????
Yes,but until 210 BC they were the same race.
2007-07-18 07:51:02 · answer #7 · answered by Hostel T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you know that's sort of hard to understand though i think that they are descendants from both japan and china my friend told me dat so if i'm wrong damn her damn her
2007-07-18 11:00:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, and they don't speak the same language
2007-07-19 02:16:36 · answer #9 · answered by Sarah T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. taiwanese are chinese, and japanese aren't chinese.
2007-07-18 08:10:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋