"Cognition" and "situations" shaping the self: the study of aboriginal and Han people’s biracial ethnic identity

• Main Authors: Chu Mei-Chi, Chiang, 蔣朱美姬
• Other Authors: Shaw-Wu, Jung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vjy3zg

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 人類學研究所 === 103 === Based on the premises of (a) contemporary Taiwan’s multiculturalism, (b) the people’s migration in the historical context of modernization and globalization, (c) the cultural integration between four major ethnic groups in Taiwan. This paper explores whether or not Taiwanese aboriginal-Han Chinese biracial individuals have doubts regarding their ethnic identity if they are in a relatively mono-cultured environment. In addition of four in-depth interviews with subjects from the second generation of inter-cultural couple in Wufeng Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. This paper explore the author’s self-experience and reflection as auto-ethnography. This paper aims to discuss the causal reasons behind the phenomena of contradiction and ambiguity concerning Taiwanese aboriginal-Han Chinese biracial individual’s identity development. It was found that when individuals are being influenced by internal recognition and external situations, moreover, national policy and gender as interacting variables. The identity development process of Taiwanese aboriginal-Han Chinese biracial individuals present itself as unstably structured and yet to be decided.