The
culture of Taiwan is a blend of
Confucianist Han Chinese and
Taiwanese aborigines cultures, which are often perceived in both traditional and
modern understandings. The common socio-political experience in
Taiwan gradually developed into a sense of Taiwanese
cultural identity and a feeling of Taiwanese cultural awareness, which has been widely debated domestically. Reflecting the continuing controversy surrounding the
political status of Taiwan, politics continues to play a role in the conception and development of a Taiwanese cultural identity, especially in the prior dominant frame of a Taiwanese and Chinese dualism. In recent years, the concept of Taiwanese
multiculturalism has been proposed as a relatively apolitical alternative view, which has allowed for the inclusion of mainlanders and other minority groups into the continuing re-definition of Taiwanese culture as collectively held systems of meaning and customary patterns of thought and behavior shared by the
people of Taiwan.