"One door is divided into two, one family enters and goes in and out. A strait connects the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and one root for generations." The two sides of the Taiwan Strait were originally a family, who assimilates whom? The "voting complaints" by some Taiwanese netizens are very interesting and worthy of fun.
"How much have you been assimilated by the other side?" Taiwanese netizens voted: The ranking of mainland terms that makes people "super bounce"! For example, the "baby" who has been very popular recently. "I'm scared to death", "The baby is feeling bitter", "But I don't say it"..., is there a point that makes me bored...
Others such as: "Cute", "I'm drunk too", "appearance", "ache", "young meat", "activation", "girl", "reliable", "scam", "sorry", "sorry", "sorry"...
This is the most normal thing. The culture between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is the same clan and the same origin, and today, with the frequent exchanges and exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, there are many languages that are influenced by Taiwan. Taiwanese spoken languages such as "decline" (unlucky) and "like" (excellent) have begun to appear in the writings of many mainland netizens. Common Taiwanese words such as "big names", "complain", "show", "ban", "wellness", and "vision" have also become common words in the mainland, and the word "vision" has also been included in the 5th edition of the "Modern Chinese Dictionary".
With the increasing enthusiasm of cross-strait exchanges and the rapid development of the network, the words on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are also showing a trend of mutual influence and gradual integration. Some words are even hard to distinguish from each other, such as "laser" and "laser", "information" and "information", "software" and "software". You use my words, I use your words, and what words do you use to express them is determined by the language practice of the people.
Two-strait "Chinese Dictionary" convener Yang Du recently wrote an article saying that in the process of editing this dictionary, some phenomena that were not expected in the past were discovered. The total number of words on both sides of the Taiwan Strait accounts for 93%; while the different words account for 7%, about 8,000. There are many and fast emerging languages on the Internet, and the convergence between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is becoming increasingly obvious. For example, Taiwan’s “speaking”, “complaints”, “knocking”, etc., the mainland’s “miss three”, “small millet”, “copying”, “square meter”, etc. have all been shared by the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. This convergence phenomenon is only possible in the Internet age and has become a common phenomenon nowadays. There is not much historical burden among the youth on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. If there are more of the same popular culture, their understanding of each other will be broader and more realistic.
It is said that in 2005, Taiwan’s People First Party Chairman Song Chuyu visited the mainland and talked about his wife’s support for him, using the word “heart-warming”. Many mainlanders present looked at each other. A reporter familiar with Taiwanese words immediately acted as a "translation" to help Song Chuyu. It turns out that "heartfelt" in Taiwan means very warm, and it is the same as "concern" in mainland China. If it were not until now, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait would not have happened again.
Worrying that assimilation is related to Taiwan’s political ecology
Zhongyejun thinks that Taiwan is always worried about being assimilated by the mainland? It is still related to Taiwan's strong political ecology, and even economic exchanges with the mainland are worried about being "gradually assimilated".
Take the 2014 "Cross-Strait Trade Agreement" as a gift to the Taiwanese people with real interests. As a result, under the instigation of political forces on the island such as the Democratic Progressive Party, on March 18, 2014, it turned into an "anti-service trade protest" incident between some groups and students in Taiwan, and students bargained with the government by occupying the "Legislative Yuan". From the beginning of the anti-service trade, the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan has played an "extremely important role." The DPP uses "Once the service trade agreement is passed, Taiwan's foot washing houses will be occupied by mainland foot washing girls." "There are many people in the mainland, and no grass grows wherever they pass (exaggeration)! "This demonized propaganda strategy mobilizes the people and "exaggerately" links Ma Ying-jeou's signing of service trade with the mainland and "pro-China and selling Taiwan" together, and Taiwanese people are worried. Especially with the rapid development of the mainland's economy, Taiwan is worried about being "overwhelmed".For example, "Street shops, simplified Chinese signs appear", "After mainland enterprises defeat Taiwan's small and medium-sized enterprises, mainland chains are everywhere", "Taiwan will rely highly on the mainland economic market, and culture has gradually penetrated..."
Taiwan's United Daily News analyzed that the "Sunflower Student Movement" tells us that Taiwanese society has deep fear of the rise of the mainland and has high doubts about the further economic and trade exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. This powerful opposition force has caused the progress of institutionalization of cross-strait relations to idling. Commentary said that if Taiwan does not dare to remove many barriers, connect with the mainland in a timely manner, and join hands to take the pace of internal and external connections, it will be difficult to avoid marginalization.
For example, "Taobao" with good quality and low price, good service and fast logistics has developed rapidly in Taiwan, which has made the island's operators feel deeply threatened. According to industry insiders, the two C2C platforms that are under the greatest pressure are Yahoo Auction and Open-air Auction. Among them, Yahoo, which focuses on clothing, shoes and bags, is directly matched with Taobao. PChome, the leader in e-commerce on the island, has not had a "direct exchange of fire" with Taobao because it focuses on digital products and arrives 24 hours a day. Wang Zhentang, chairman of the Taiwan Computer Association, once publicly stated that mainland online merchants such as Taobao will eventually destroy Taiwan's e-commerce business. Some Taiwanese people have put it more bluntly. Imagine when 1/7 of Taiwan people buy things directly through Taobao, they use the same source of goods to survive. How can they survive?
Some Taiwanese experts say that Taiwanese society has accumulated a resistant mentality of cross-strait exchanges. In recent years, in any corner of every restaurant in Taipei, I can hear the topic of the next table being unable to get rid of the "How is the Mainland?" The "anti-communist" and "anti-China" ideologies over 60 years are deeply rooted. The integration and assimilation with mainland China seems to be a "real nightmare" for many Taiwanese people.
Taiwan's "royalization" deepens its differences with the mainland
There is another reason, Taiwan was once "royalized" by Japan for 50 years. The purpose of Japan's "Imperialization" movement is brainwashing. The "Imperialization" movement not only makes a fuss about language and writing, promotes "Japanese civilization", but also forces Taiwanese people to align with Japanese methods in terms of living customs, religious beliefs, culture and art, seasonal solar terms, etc.
"Recognize Japan as the father" Lee Teng-hui during his reign, strengthened the "New Historical View of Taiwan" and issued a textbook for Taiwanese middle school "Knowing Taiwan", which "vigorously beautify" Japan's colonial rule in Taiwan, no longer called it "Japanese occupation", emphasized that Japan brought "industrialization" and "modernization" such as "pneumonia", "hygiene", and "civilization", avoid talking about the exploitation and different ethnic treatment in it, and downplayed the Taiwanese people's continuous anti-Japanese and liberation movements, replacing "Taiwan's liberation" with "receiving Taiwan". Finally, he did not forget to praise the "Taiwan experience" of "implementing democracy and rule of law" to condense "Taiwan local consciousness".
"In the '3·18' anti-service trade movement, some people in Taiwan put on 'Taiwan independence' slogans and organized a referendum to Taiwan to 'return' Japan, believing that Japan is their mother country." A green professor at the Chinese Cultural University of Taiwan admitted that the reason for such a ridiculous thing was mainly because these people "wrongly made the relationship between Taiwan's history and Chinese history." Seeing the infrastructure and buildings left behind during the Japanese colonization of Taiwan, they believed that this was "Japan's grace to the Taiwanese people."
more is useless. Anyway, nothing can stop cross-strait exchanges. This is the general trend. Taiwanese people understand. Zhongyejun thinks that it is that important for who assimilates who on both sides of the Taiwan Strait? The two sides of the Taiwan Strait have the same roots and the same culture. Just like the famous Taiwanese beef noodle evolved from the reintegration of Sichuan flavors and Taiwanese flavors, it is now popular among both sides of the Taiwan Strait, so the cultures on both sides of the Taiwan Strait could have blossomed and cultivated.
"Look at the long term" and finally, it can make cross-strait relations move forward and make the two sides more and more integrated, but it depends on China's own strong rise.
Borrowing Li Bai's poem:
"The monkeys on both sides of the shore cannot stop crying, and the light boat has passed thousands of mountains."
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