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by AlchemistCamp 1337 days ago
> Taiwan people are highly educated and urbanized. It's much harder to use Taiwanese in Taiwan compared to High German in a Pennsylvanian Amish village.

This isn't true at all. Taiwan is highly educated and urbanized and nearly everyone can understand Taiwanese. Millions of people speak it natively and everyone else has encountered it in media, day-to-day life and also in school in the past 15 or so years.