the KMT base is mostly in the urban north/east coast, as well as outlying islands like Jinmen. like, the people that would be most affected by strained relationship with the mainland. DPP has most of its base in the south and west. a lot of old rural people are strong DPP supporters and I think most indigenous taiwanese are as well
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i didn't start learning chinese seriously until moving to china as an adult and was exposed to simplified characters long before traditional. i worked in a 广场 and though "广 makes sense, it looks wide and spacious". later in HK/TW i often misread it as 黄 until i got used to it
if i ever visit the US, remind me to wear my most uncomfortable clothes, sit with my legs down normally, make a sufficient but not too high amount of eye contact and small talk with aquaintances, and not react to hideous noises
Traditional characters definitely look more aesthetically pleasing than their simplified counterparts
not always in my opinion. sure, 區 looks better than 区 whick looks like an "image not found" 車 and 龜 do look like a wagon and a turtle while 车/龟 look like... runes? 頭 has a bean in it which is cute， but i do like the minimal aesthetic of many simplified characters like 广, 门, 县, 个, 书 etc where 廣, 門, 縣, 個, 書 look unneccessarily complicated and cluttered
HK and Macao use traditional characters, sure, but it's not because they "adopted" the characters that the ROC used. They became foreign colonies during the Qing dynasty, which also used traditional characters, since simplified characters weren't invented yet. However, they are used to write the cantonese language, not the mandarin language that the ROC used.
Singapore transitioned to using simplified character and now you'll pretty much only see mandarin written in simplified there. Malaysia is in the process of transitioning, hence it's more of a mess.
Taiwan still uses traditional out of some sense of national pride
However "traditional" is not the original characters exactly, and some traditional characters are already simplified to some degree
oh wait this is a meme why did i type all this
he sure did the nasty in the past-y 
on another note, i'm looking forward to the US very soon losing its spot as the global cultural superpower, and the west having to watch schlock chinese war movies about the war in korea where they are the heroes and the americans the villains
unless the husband was like ten years older than her, he likely did war crimes in korea
"Moroccan pasta" from Peep show
Maoists say "Everything under heaven is in utter chaos, the situation is excellent" while evengelicals say "Gee, we're all gonna die in a disaster, can't wait"
the men wander around the town in colourful handmade costumes in search of a woman to soak
abolish whatever the fuck this is
oh and what
According to 2019 survey, 60% of Czech households follow the tradition of spanking (or watering) someone on Easter Monday.
yeah for some reason i lumped gaoxiong/pingdong/taidong together as dark green but turns out the southeast is blue. good to know!