>>211920129Taiwan has been culturally independent from the mainland for far longer than the civil war. Japan colonized us for 50 years and before that Taiwan was treated as de facto independent by the Qing for around 100 years before that.
The mainland dealt with the century of humiliation while Taiwan didn't and had to deal with the Taiping rebellion as well. All the while Taiwanese were doing their own thing and loving in peace while the mainlanders were literally eating each other alive. Basically there is about 200 years of cultural divide between us.