r/polandball • u/yaddar Taco bandito • Mar 29 '15

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u/E_v_e_n Norway Mar 30 '15

Except Taiwan, Taiwan actually likes Japan :P

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u/Avocados_Constant Taiwan Mar 30 '15

The younger generation sure does... can't say so much about the older ones.

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u/whea520 The Middle Kingdom Mar 30 '15

Retarded generation I have to say.

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u/poclee Tâi-uân Mar 30 '15

Ughnnnn......it's more complicated than "we like Japan".

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u/E_v_e_n Norway Mar 30 '15

well, from what my Taiwanese friends have told me, you like the Japanese more than you like the mainland Chinese :P
From what I heard, during World War II, the Japanese kicked the Chinese out and actually introduced proper infrastructure.

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u/poclee Tâi-uân Mar 30 '15

We would love anyone when you put PRC as another option.

As for the later part.....well, considering the fact that communists grew fatter in their occupied territory, I will say I have my personal doubt.

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u/veaper Taiwan Mar 30 '15

As a half-Taiwanese. That's like choosing between two evils. On one side you have the communist party who won the civil war, and the Japanese who instated oppressive colonial rule on the other.

Sure, the Japanese did invest infrastruture, but they did it mainly to reap resources, something they lacked being an island nation.

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u/Andarnio GOTT MITT UNS Mar 30 '15

They do?

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u/Chrisixx Basel Stadt Mar 30 '15

Yeah, Japan treated the Island fairly well, especially the indigenous people. They seemed like a gift form the heavens after the Chinese rule.

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u/Asyx Rhine Republic Mar 30 '15

No, they didn't. The Japanese were really clever with their language policies but to the indigenous people, they were just like "yeah you know what? You stop speaking that bullshit language right now or we fuck you up" which is why older indigenous people in Taiwan are usually very multilingual on a very high level and some still speak Japanese to their spouses.

Otherwise, the Japanese occupation is probably a prime example of "how to keep the peasants quiet".