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Taiwan, Understanding an Identity in Process Part II Posted on: Creole, Syncretic or Hybrid? Examine creolization. In this regard, Taiwan with its indigenous cultures has mixed such with Dutch, Spanish, Ming loyalists, Manchu Qing, Japanese and finally the fleeing KMT to fit this bill. The term creolization was first associated with the field of linguistics but in the past decades scholars have taken it far beyond that and applied it to numerous other areas including culture and identity. In a separate growing field of study, Taiwan is seen as the origin of the Lapitan culture that linguistically and culturally has spread across the Pacific. From the Japanese era on, Taiwanese had begun to gain a unified sense of their difference. To be sure there are still unresolved elements such as just retribution for the stolen state assets the KMT remains one of the richest political parties in the world , and transitional justice for all the numerous past political crimes. Taiwan has emerged from the bonds of what some call the forced learning and Stockholm syndrome of its one-party state to become a democracy. At that time, unlike under Qing rule, the Hoklo, Hakka and indigenous people realized that they should not let outside rulers play one group against the other. Jerome F.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Other writings can be found here… In these troubled times, Taiwanese know they are different but they may not always be able to verbalize how different they are. Keating Ph. They became united in forging an identity. These have all mixed with its native culture and here too is another element. Syncretism is often associated with and compared in usage with creolism; it is used to describe the reconciliation of different systems such as of religious belief or language where there are heterogeneous or partial results. In this process they should examine three terms, creolism, syncretism and hybridization. Nevertheless, identity wise, Taiwanese have found in democracy the true expression of their Creole, syncretic or hybrid nature. One can view Taiwan in much the same way as it reconciled the many cultural and religious systems left by its past colonial forces. Taiwan, Understanding an Identity in Process Part II In these troubled times, Taiwanese know they are different but they may not always be able to verbalize how different they are. This democratic identity and history is what they take with them into the twenty-first century to face any new oppressors. Ironically, however, after gaining its present democracy, Taiwan now hears new dissonant controlling overtures from a different nation on the other side of the Taiwan Strait. Those who know the resiliency and adaptability of the Taiwanese with their island culture can relate to this. Creole is applied to cultures of intrinsically mixed origins as in the US State of Louisiana or the Caribbean. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}Creole, Syncretic or Hybrid? It is also no wonder that the Taiwanese who in the s had finally won for themselves the right to elect their own representatives to the Japanese Diet were also able to overcome and the White Terror and wrest democracy from their autocratic rulers. Next take syncretism. The third term hybrid also is applied to mixed origins including those of genetic or language backgrounds. We are brothers. This too contributes to make Taiwan, Taiwan. They are that of an island that has seen successive waves of colonization and immigration coming to its shores.