1949

Maybe I'll expand this post later when I have more time, but I find this quite interesting: Most immigrants here are from Taiwan, and most came from the 1949-1950 migration to Taiwan that resulted from the Communists winning the Chinese civil war. When one guy asked about my ancestry, he seemed insistent that I qualify the fact that my parents are from the mainland with the fact that my dad also left China in the 1949 migration. Also, whenever I say my dad's family ended up in America, most people seem to chuckle and say, "that's where you went if you were educated and had money!"