台湾人の女の子が自分のＤＮＡを調べた。台湾人は全く中国人とは違うＤＮＡだと分かったそうだ。
【真相】台湾人に漢民族の遺伝子はなかった
Rachel Huang （在米台湾人、２０代女性）
My name is Rachel Huang. I recently had a “lively” debate with a Burmese Chinese over Taiwan. I tried all the arguments I could think of to try to convince him that the Taiwanese have the right to self-determination but all my entreaties fell on deaf ears. The only thing that would convince him to support Taiwanese independence, he said, is evidence that the Taiwanese are not Chinese racially. I sent away my DNA to be tested because I have heard that the Taiwanese might not be pure Han, that most of us have some aboriginal blood.
This is what I got back: Thailand, Basque (Spain), Java, Malay, Balearic Islands (Spain), Ashkenazi (Budapest, Hungary), Eastern Anatolia (Turkey), Italy, Sicily (Italy), Germany, Lille (France), Marmara (Turkey), Szelkler (Romania), Switzerland, Extremadura (Spain), Mulao (Guangxi), Kirgiz (Chinese Turkestan).
At first I thought this is pure gibberish, there can’t be anybody with this kind of DNA profile. Then I thought the DNA lab mistakenly sent me a Thai person’s test result, a very mixed Thai. But then I remembered that when I visited Thailand a few years ago with my sister, we were so tickled that some of our mother’s relatives resemble Thai people. After we got back from the trip, we teased our relatives mercilessly. I remembered too that Spain used to occupy northern Taiwan. I looked into the Spanish connection and I found that the Spaniards who occupied Taiwan were from Basque. So this seems to be my DNA profile with my genetic inheritance from my mother’s side accounted for. I then went through a week of agonizing wondering about who my real father is because my dad is northern Han.
What really jumped out at me from the long list of ancestors was the Budapest Ashkenazi. The Ashkenazi are Jews who were expelled from ancient Israel around 60 A.D. when they revolted against the occupying Roman Empire. They settled in Germany and France but were persecuted because they refused to convert to Christianity. Some Ashkenazi resettled in Budapest and were expelled again by Christians.
After tackling the raw data included in my report, I realized that one set of my ancestors (Basque, Balearic Islands, Extremadura, Sicily) reached Taiwan by boat while the other set walked (Switzerland, France, Germany, Budapest, Romania, Turkey, Chinese Turkestan, Guangxi). I called my dad and told him I did a DNA test. I asked him who his ancestors are, he said, “International.” I asked him if he knew we are Jewish, he said, “Yes.”
I grew up thinking that I am hundred percent Han Chinese, but it turned out I have zero Han blood. Both sides of my family have genealogy books that traced our origins back to Fukien. Both sides of my family have been living on Taiwan for over three hundred years, I picked up all my Southeast Asian ancestry (Thailand, Malay, Java) on Taiwan. As a child, I was told by my mom that we have zero aboriginal blood. It is sad but true that the Taiwanese are racists; we rather believe that we are Han and we deny our aboriginal foremothers.
What I learned from my DNA odyssey is that Taiwan is a melting pot. Taiwan occupies a strategic position between China, Japan, Philippines, and Southeast Asia. Our forefathers are pirates, immigrants, conquerors, aboriginals…. I truly doubt that there are that many pure Han living on Taiwan even among the Mainlanders. Most of the KMT soldiers remarried on Taiwan, their children share our genes. Taiwan’s strategic position is also our tragedy. Maybe if all the “Hakkas”, “Hoklos”, “Mainlanders”, and aboriginals recognize that we share a common gene pool, that we owe no allegiance to China, that we are racially different from the Chinese, we can all come together to determine our own fate.
『台湾の声』 http://www.emaga.com/info/3407.html
『日本之声』 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nihonnokoe (Big5漢文)
Rachel Huang （在米台湾人、２０代女性）
My name is Rachel Huang. I recently had a “lively” debate with a Burmese Chinese over Taiwan. I tried all the arguments I could think of to try to convince him that the Taiwanese have the right to self-determination but all my entreaties fell on deaf ears. The only thing that would convince him to support Taiwanese independence, he said, is evidence that the Taiwanese are not Chinese racially. I sent away my DNA to be tested because I have heard that the Taiwanese might not be pure Han, that most of us have some aboriginal blood.
This is what I got back: Thailand, Basque (Spain), Java, Malay, Balearic Islands (Spain), Ashkenazi (Budapest, Hungary), Eastern Anatolia (Turkey), Italy, Sicily (Italy), Germany, Lille (France), Marmara (Turkey), Szelkler (Romania), Switzerland, Extremadura (Spain), Mulao (Guangxi), Kirgiz (Chinese Turkestan).
At first I thought this is pure gibberish, there can’t be anybody with this kind of DNA profile. Then I thought the DNA lab mistakenly sent me a Thai person’s test result, a very mixed Thai. But then I remembered that when I visited Thailand a few years ago with my sister, we were so tickled that some of our mother’s relatives resemble Thai people. After we got back from the trip, we teased our relatives mercilessly. I remembered too that Spain used to occupy northern Taiwan. I looked into the Spanish connection and I found that the Spaniards who occupied Taiwan were from Basque. So this seems to be my DNA profile with my genetic inheritance from my mother’s side accounted for. I then went through a week of agonizing wondering about who my real father is because my dad is northern Han.
What really jumped out at me from the long list of ancestors was the Budapest Ashkenazi. The Ashkenazi are Jews who were expelled from ancient Israel around 60 A.D. when they revolted against the occupying Roman Empire. They settled in Germany and France but were persecuted because they refused to convert to Christianity. Some Ashkenazi resettled in Budapest and were expelled again by Christians.
After tackling the raw data included in my report, I realized that one set of my ancestors (Basque, Balearic Islands, Extremadura, Sicily) reached Taiwan by boat while the other set walked (Switzerland, France, Germany, Budapest, Romania, Turkey, Chinese Turkestan, Guangxi). I called my dad and told him I did a DNA test. I asked him who his ancestors are, he said, “International.” I asked him if he knew we are Jewish, he said, “Yes.”
I grew up thinking that I am hundred percent Han Chinese, but it turned out I have zero Han blood. Both sides of my family have genealogy books that traced our origins back to Fukien. Both sides of my family have been living on Taiwan for over three hundred years, I picked up all my Southeast Asian ancestry (Thailand, Malay, Java) on Taiwan. As a child, I was told by my mom that we have zero aboriginal blood. It is sad but true that the Taiwanese are racists; we rather believe that we are Han and we deny our aboriginal foremothers.
What I learned from my DNA odyssey is that Taiwan is a melting pot. Taiwan occupies a strategic position between China, Japan, Philippines, and Southeast Asia. Our forefathers are pirates, immigrants, conquerors, aboriginals…. I truly doubt that there are that many pure Han living on Taiwan even among the Mainlanders. Most of the KMT soldiers remarried on Taiwan, their children share our genes. Taiwan’s strategic position is also our tragedy. Maybe if all the “Hakkas”, “Hoklos”, “Mainlanders”, and aboriginals recognize that we share a common gene pool, that we owe no allegiance to China, that we are racially different from the Chinese, we can all come together to determine our own fate.
『台湾の声』 http://www.emaga.com/info/3407.html
『日本之声』 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nihonnokoe (Big5漢文)