Nomenclature is at least as much of a hot potato here as in the UK. All the people I've met seem happy to call themselves Asian, but then many of them are descended from mainland Chinese. (The Taiwan parliament had seats for every part of mainland China for a long time.) The native Taiwanese are ambivalent about the C word - although they themselves may be looked on with equal ambivalence by the many aboriginal communities. And then there are the Hakka...

In many ways it feels just like home.