In Taipei
When, on May 15, a gunman broke into the Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods, California, killing one person and injuring five others, the international press reported yet another gun violence coming from the United States. .
The killer, David Chou, is then described by the authorities as an “
American citizen of Chinese origin
”, whose motivations are linked to “
political tensions between China and Taiwan”
.
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But in Taiwan, the crime has a completely different resonance: the inhabitants learn with amazement that the killer was born and raised on their island, before immigrating to the United States.
He is from a family in Waishengren (literally "
outer province
"), that is, his family immigrated from China to Taiwan after 1945, during the Chinese Civil War, when the Nationalist government of Kuomintang took refuge there.
In contrast, we call Benshengren (literally “
from the province of origin”)
or “
ethnic
” Taiwanese, the vast majority of Taiwanese…
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