Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Foreword
Since its establishment, the DPP has persisted that Taiwan remain the
main focus, resisting against cultural hegemony from a minority and re-
establishing the integrity, subsistence and space for development of ethnic
cultures. The DPP as ruling party paid even more attention to group demands
from each ethnic group. In the tasks of bringing into practice native culture
with mother tongue education, in re-establishing aboriginal identity and
promoting the dignity of Hakka culture, in all these tasks, the DPP takes the
leading position as the innovator among all the other political parties. In
addition, the DPP deeply recognized that without diversity, local policies
would be hard to implement.
Positions
8. Every ethnicity is the master of Taiwan. From early on, Taiwan became
the homeland for aboriginal people, for the Hakka and then for the Hoklo;
it also became the new homeland for Mainlanders and for foreign
immigrants. A Taiwan Consciousness is to be established by the collective
participation of each and every ethnic group. Each ethnic group is the
master of Taiwan; all the native languages of each ethnic group are the
languages of Taiwan.
Conclusion
Every ethnic group that objectively brings forth any resentment, injustice
or uneasiness must be dealt immediately. Equality for all ethnic groups and
respect for their dignity must be given protection, and every ethnic
communal remembrance must all go beyond the ethnic sphere and become
everyone’s remembrance! Similarly, no ethnic group should be held
responsible for the sin of the past authoritarian regime and become now the
new subordinate ethnic group.
Those immigrants who arrived to Taiwan after the war also faced the
tragic fate of the nation’s people, and together with the Taiwanese
aborigines, Hakka and Hoklo ethnic groups all fought together against
Communist enslavement, all aspiring for democracy and liberty, and together
writing down a dignified page in protecting Taiwan! This historical
experience that transcended all ethnicities created the group picture of
Taiwanese life.
The ethnic groups of Taiwan, not only enriched its culture with different
distinguishing characteristics and contributions, but also performed their
civic roles and obligations in the system of democratic political affairs, and
everyone in Taiwan consciousness is a part that cannot lead astray. In other
words, the unity of Taiwan as a country lies on accomplishing diversity. Only
by protecting the space for cultural development of the different ethnic
groups, can a mutually identifiable and harmonious society be established
under a sentimental confine of respect for one another, a constitutional
democracy consolidated and a diverse unity realized.