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Taiwan |
After De-sinicization |
Taiwan has cultural
heritage ? |
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UNESCO’s
list of intangible
cultural heritage
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https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists
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ranks |
Asian country |
heritage items selected |
1 |
China |
40 |
2 |
Korea |
24 |
3 |
Japan |
20 |
4 |
Mongolia |
15 |
5 |
India |
13 |
6 |
Indonesia |
10 |
7 |
Saudi Arabia |
8 |
8 |
Cambodia |
5 |
9 |
Philippines |
4 |
10 |
Qatar |
3 |
10 |
Malaysia |
3 |
10 |
Pakistan |
3 |
13 |
Thai |
2 |
14 |
Singapore |
1 |
14 |
Sri Lanka |
1 |
14 |
Vietnam |
1 |
14 |
UAE |
1 |
18~2X |
Myanmar, Laos, Nepal |
0 |
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Taiwan |
0 |
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Taiwan has been doing De-sinicization
(getting rid of Chinese
culture) , and has not
been included in
UNESCO’s list of
intangible cultural heritage.
The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Confucian Chinese and indigenous
Taiwanese cultures. Politics continues to play a role in
the conception and development of a Taiwanese cultural identity.
(Jan. 2021, wiki)
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sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-hawker-culture-gets-nod-included-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list-140941296.html
12-16-2020:
Singapore’s hawker
culture was officially
approved on Wednesday
(16 December) to be
inscribed into UNESCO’s
list of intangible
cultural heritage of
humanity. The
biggest thanks must go
to the generations of
hawkers for nourishing a
nation’s stomach and
spirits.
Taiwan is proud of its
night market
culture, but was not
selected.
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Washington Post, 2-17-2021:Today,
98 % of Taiwanese are ethnic Han Chinese...
there has been a shift
among younger generations who increasingly do not feel China’s
emotional pull but rather embrace their home island’s history, and its
Indigenous culture, as an expression of being distinctly Taiwanese.
Indigenous artists (related
to the Austronesian peoples)
shine as Taiwan’s mainstream embraces its island identity.
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BBC, 2-10-2021, "Why Taiwan has 'luck-improvement services' ":
There’s a pervasive idea running through Chinese culture that things aren’t
random,
Stevan
Harrell, emeritus anthropology
professor at the University of
Washington said,
“There’s a belief in order: there’s some sort of order behind
everything.” Many people believed in a simple maxim: “tian zhuding” (“heaven
decides”).
Some higher power has plans for
each person on Earth,
traditional Chinese belief also
holds that “heaven never seals
off all the exits” – there is
always a way out.
“We call [this attitude of openness] ‘youbai youbaoyou’,” (有拜有保庇)“, It doesn’t matter if you believe in gods. If you pray, you’ll be blessed.”
So, even the upscale Eslite
Bookstore has a cosmological
self-help section chock full of do-it-yourself fate-improvement guides.
People in the
Chinese-speaking world seem particularly preoccupied with luck, from
boarding gates to high-stakes baccarat tables and school exams to
political races, (Even
politicians are compelled to publicly try their luck, visiting temples
to draw fortune sticks ...)
Yet while many countries have
their own superstitions and
rituals. brief
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210210-chinas-enduring-obsession-with-luck
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