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Alter-Native-Taiwanese: Taiwanâs Fifth Major Ethnic Group Postmodern Ethnicity Rajni Kothari has said that ethnicity arose in reaction to âthe homogenization of people.â In our times, the âhomogenization of peopleâ has been crecapitalism, the apparatus of the nation-state, ated by three factors-global by means of modern technology, widespread media and world culture networks and communication systems, and popular education. It is true that before modern times, homogenization also occurred through cultural customs, social strata, and theological and other meaning systems. However, ethnicity has continued to exist and grow in modern societies basically as a response o r resistance to modern (as opposed to premodern) forms of âhomogenization.ââ Based on the above-stated conceptual framework for ethnicity, this essay positions 4 : ~ 1996 by Duke University Press. 0 positions 4: 1 Spring 1996 attempts to make the following proposal: If, as suggested by some people, there exist in contemporary Taiwan four major ethnic groups- Minnan, Hakka, indigenous peoples, and mainlanders- then there is actually a fifth ethnic group, this newly emerging group being the âpseudo-Taiwanese.â Furthermore, this essay hopes to bring out that the existence of a pseudoTaiwanese ethnic group may be said to be a postmodern phenomenon. The pseudo-Taiwanese
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1, 1996
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