almost become chinese. vietnamese successfully resisted assimilation attempt by chinese since han dynasty.

hopefully, taiwanese can do the same to become its own culture distinct from chinese culture by accelerating desinization process starting from education because taiwanese is not han chinese.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials...9/04/2003699749
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials...2/20/2003402094

don't believe in communist and kuomintang propaganda. taiwanese is not culturally chinese from the start.

if you live in northern taiwan, yes, they acknowledge that taiwanese is minnan and chinese because lots of mainlanders descended from kmt refugees from china live in northern taiwan. hakka living in miaoli and hsinchu are still speaking hakka because they don't want to assimilate into taiwanese society, unlike hakka in pingtung.

try to say  taiyu is minnan yu to southern taiwanese, you will be accused as communist and kuomintang sympathizer.

kinmenese of course call themselves as chinese and not taiwanese because kinmen island is closer to china than taiwan.

minnan culture is a subset of taiwanese culture. it doesn't mean that taiwanese is ethnically chinese or minnan. race is just skin deep.

han kuo yu's "love chinese culture" message in his last presidential campaign platform failed to convince taiwanese to vote for him. that's why dpp and tsai ying wen won presidential election for 2nd time. during her campaign, no one raised republic of china flag.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/arc...0/30/2003681322
https://michaelturton.blogspot.com/2017/04/...not-ethnic.html
https://michaelturton.blogspot.com/2018/07/...se-round-2.html