🧬 Who’s the “Superior” Mixed Child? Reflecting on Taiwan’s Pathological Chauvinism Through Defining “Mixed Heritage”
Since over a century ago—Western civilization benefiting from the Industrial Revolution (1760)—finally broke China’s world dominance. Cross-racial exchange accelerated globally as World Wars progressed and technology advanced. Interracial blood fusion gradually gained worldwide acceptance.
Yet modern global village cooperation somehow witnessed post-nationalism consciousness emerging on Taiwan Island… promoting great Taiwan chauvinism, infinitely glorifying “Taiwanese” as a new identity with no historical or cultural foundation…
Recently we frequently see them promoting Taiwan superiority theory—believing themselves superior to mainland Chinese… Taiwanese people simply popped into existence from rocks on the island… (They deliberately overlook Austronesian peoples.)
They despise mainland brides yet treat Taiwan-Japanese or Taiwan-Korean mixed heritages as evolution of the human species… Simply absurd…
Mixed Heritage Misuse: Nationality and Inferiority Complex
Since we’re discussing mixed heritage, some deliberately confuse its meaning and misuse it… They call it “blood” yet a bunch of fools insist on mixing in nationality. If we judge by nationality, wouldn’t children of foreigners who marry and gain citizenship cease being mixed heritage?
Actually using country names in such phrases as “such-and-such mixed heritage” is wrong from the start.
The root cause is only to show off attaching themselves to foreigners, absurdly thereafter considering themselves superior, confident with this superiority everywhere.
Yet this very superiority reflects ethnic inferiority complex deeply ingrained since the First Sino-Japanese War 127 years ago when China lost to foreign powers.
The more inferior someone feels, the more they glorify themselves by attaching to others’ achievements (here referring to race).
📝 Strict Definition of “Mixed Heritage”
So we need to strictly define “mixed heritage.” According to ROC Education Ministry dictionary, mixed heritage refers to offspring born from marriage between people of different bloodlines.
Broadly speaking: Any offspring from combining people without direct bloodline relationship is mixed heritage. Taipei people mixed with Kaohsiung people are “Taipei-Kaohsiung mixed heritage”; Taiwanese mixed with Kinmen people are “Taiwan-Kinmen mixed heritage.” This direct bloodline relationship simply refers to recently traceable kinship—even ROC citizens count as having them.
Narrowly speaking: Even if our Taiwan people married Japanese Kyushu people and had children, you can’t call it mixed heritage because 3,000 years ago we might shared common ancestors on the Yellow River. Fortunately, multiregional origin theory became mainstream in human origin research.
Therefore even narrowly, ROC Han people mixed with European Caucasians can absolutely be called mixed heritage.