Yellow is the Color of the True Chinese

The only true Chinese democracy in the world is set to cast their ballots this weekend.  The colors of loyalty range from green to blue to yellow, it looks to be a colorful outpouring of emotions and desires.  But lurking beneath the trappings of democracy is something approaching a racial bias (although there are no real racial differences) that separates the “true Chinese” whose parents came over with Chiang Kaishek and the Taiwanese, whose parents came over from FuJian a hundred or so years ago.  The Kuomintang, or KMT, is made up of the former, along with a bunch of Taiwanese who made money by working with them, use the color blue while the Taiwanese who oppose the KMT rally around the color green.  There is also a party called the New Party which uses the color yellow to symbolize the purest of the “pure” Chinese and is allied with the KMT.  If this confuses you, you can read all about it in this article from the Taipei Times