IIRC polls showed that less than a third wanted independence, only a tiny amount wanted reunification (i.e. one country one system), and most only wanted to maintain the status quo (ambigious with the PRC and ROC coexisting).
For some more context:
Ever since 1996 after the Chiang era when their pro-Japan puppet was elected, their education curriculum was changed to gradually influence the younger generations into believing that they were anything but Chinese. Many of them thanks to this believe themselves to be a higher class of human than mainlanders as they were under Japanese rule (same type of colonial brainwashing we still see in HK but not in Macau).
The current DPP leadership is a large influence in pushing the education “reforms” where some were pushing to rewrite the history of the ROC to begin in 1949 as opposed to 1912. To quote some of the more extreme comments from these people “why should we reunite with PRC, why not Japan or even India instead?”.
The most vocal types we see on the English speaking web are majority west-worshipping and also need to factor in the 1450 troll army that the DPP uses to flood the Chinese speaking space with this type of brainrot as well.
IIRC polls showed that less than a third wanted independence, only a tiny amount wanted reunification (i.e. one country one system), and most only wanted to maintain the status quo (ambigious with the PRC and ROC coexisting).
For some more context:
Ever since 1996 after the Chiang era when their pro-Japan puppet was elected, their education curriculum was changed to gradually influence the younger generations into believing that they were anything but Chinese. Many of them thanks to this believe themselves to be a higher class of human than mainlanders as they were under Japanese rule (same type of colonial brainwashing we still see in HK but not in Macau).
The current DPP leadership is a large influence in pushing the education “reforms” where some were pushing to rewrite the history of the ROC to begin in 1949 as opposed to 1912. To quote some of the more extreme comments from these people “why should we reunite with PRC, why not Japan or even India instead?”.
The most vocal types we see on the English speaking web are majority west-worshipping and also need to factor in the 1450 troll army that the DPP uses to flood the Chinese speaking space with this type of brainrot as well.