As the offspring of a mixed marriage, I understand the divide that probably defined the gunman's life, as it has defined my parents’ lives.
After my parents got married, my Yeye went to my Ah-Gong’s house in Taiwan to introduce himself.waishengrenwaishengren
The precise brew of ideology and personal failure that would motivate someone to shoot elderly Taiwanese-speaking churchgoers may never be known. But any deeply felt issue — whether abortion, immigration or foreign wars — can inspire violence.-Taiwanese divide that probably defined Chou’s life, as it has defined my parents’ lives, the lives of more than 23 million people in Taiwan and those around the world with ties to the island.
Yeye soon went to Taiwan. After Japan gave the island back to China, there were many jobs for educated young men from the mainland — but not for Taiwanese, who lacked connections to the ruling elite. Many, like Ah-Gong, didn’t speak Mandarin, and the Japanese had severely restricted their opportunities to attend college., Yeye became an exile after Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang lost to the Communists and retreated to Taiwan in 1949. Communication with the mainland was completely severed.
, and to oppose eventual unification with an authoritarian country that would squelch the freedoms they value. Shortly after the DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen was elected president in 2016, I was taken aback by my dad’s reaction when I told him I was going to visit Taiwan.Tsai’s reelection campaign
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