Actually my understanding is that a lot of the mixing was done to ensure peace between settlements. If an indigenous daughter married into a Han settlement it helped keep the peace.
I know of 3 daughters 3 families in their early 50ās whose father was ROC soldier.
When they started school advised by their mother to hide Ethnic Taiwan side of identity!
No need to freak out. A polite call out is usually enough to strike the fear of God into them. No one wants to be that person getting caught in the act of being a creep and the face culture makes it seriously worse. At the same time, not making a fuss allows the person to not dig their heels in the issue and turn the whole thing against you.
Be it 2022 or 2052, youāre in an insular island that is more attuned to its immediate neighbors than it is to the rest of the world. They see an indonesian woman with a hijab and they wonāt mind it because theyāre used to it, but the same sight would guarantee stares in some backwater places in the West too, because theyāve never really seen the the real deal sometimes. I mean, Iām African, and the amount of stares Han people get in my home country are pretty spectacular as well. So I kinda get them but i still stay firm when i feel like thereās some weird stuff going on, especially behind my back (they tried taking pics of my sister once)
Iām sure youāre still a wild bull at heart. Now, after your comment if anyone takes a picture Iāll think itās because Iām ugly not āOh Iāve still got itā.
Yes I meant forefathers
I understand many Chinese males were brought over to work the fields and they married available women who were mostly aborigine. We are talking hundreds of years ago here
The second wave which were the soldiers old chiang brought over when he fled China after WW2 also married available women but in this case many were not aborigine but instead later generations of Taiwanese ladies
My auntie on my moms side married such an old soldier and he only spoke mandarin and always was quiet at family gatherings when everyone else spoke Taiwanese
And my two cousins from that auntie still to this day speak mandarin rather than Taiwanese