In highschool, I worked in a chinese restaraunt. Best chinese food on the face of the planet, by the way. too bad the place closed.
the owners were from Taiwan. But they considered themselves Chinese. Taiwanese are an ethnic group who want to maintain the independence of Taiwain. ok, more of a political group.
According to my former employers, however (nicest people in the whole world. became my second family) they thought the Taiwanese wanted a return of the days of WW2 during which Taiwan was controlled by the Japanese.
but the japanese were so ethnocentric that they were quite.... let's say they weren't too nice to Not-Japanese people. But, I've yet to hear of a single culture or ethnicity that has never in its history commited some attrocity or other. human nature I suppose.
besides. The communist ideal may yet rise since nearly 1/3 of the world's population lives in a communist system. or socialist. one or the other. Russia was one, and China was the other, but i can't remember which. Probably Mongolia.
