The original one big culture that split up into, smaller subcultures, because we'd lived on different lands, with the different political systems from each other, and, if we merge by force, then, we will be ill-adapted like those fish in the Amazon, we won't survive! Translated…
Before light, we'd, come to that final place of the tour of the Amazons, close by to Manaus, where Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes merged into, the Amazon Basins, the two rivers after merging, flowed transparently for twelve kilometers, extended into a hundred kilometers since the merge, then, they are, completely, mixed together; although the ferry's propellers mixed the waters together, but the two different colors would, separate immediately afterwards, refusing to flow in synchrony.
The sources of these two rivers are different, with varied levels of acidity, Rio Negro originated from the plateau and jungles of Colombia, at two kilometers an hour, there were, many of the rotten plants in the water, with the colors resembling the Pu'er tea, at the temperature of twenty-eight degrees Celsius, but too acidic, with the pH of between 2.9 to 4.2 (some said it was to 6.0) ;Rio Soliomes originated from the Andes of Peru, with the mixtures of the sediments, rolling down from the mountains, like the latte, way faster (at four to six kilometers per hour), but lower in temperature by five, to six degrees at twenty-two degrees, with the pH of 7.0, neutral; when the two rivers merged, they flowed parallel on the surfaces, keeping to one's own sides, but, underneath, the black currents invaded the white.
There were the black ditches in Taiwan, the Yin-Yang Seas, this doesn't seem that special at all, but after learning that fish from one river can't survive in the other, that was when I felt, shocked; if someone dove from this end to that, then s/he would've crossed over the boundaries, with different sights, not to mention the, differences of, species.
The adaptation of acidity is diverse on both sides, with the varied temperatures, different paces of growth, can't tolerate each other, can't live in one another's space, they seemed parallel in existence on the surface, in actuality, one is higher than the, other, the species that live here can't get over there, the fish from the other end can't survive here, it takes a very long time, for the two sides to, finally, mesh together in harmony.
I'd smiled and thought of this, as a metaphor of the conflicts in and out of the country, but after awhile, I'd stopped, smiling, everything got, serious.
River, or fish, humans, we all came from different times, different geographic regions, it's too difficult to get along in peace.
There's an interesting passage by the former chief of Department of Sanitations, Chang "The Terminal Year 2030 of National Health Insurance", "the dialect of Taiwanese, there's no differentiation between 'us'."
Our own, can be families, can be those from the same hometowns as we are, same generations, same backgrounds, same political affiliations, same colors, same countries, same sex, same language, same school, same occupation, same hospital, same, same, same, there's too many differentiations to this, but, where is, that, bottom, line? Who is considered, "one of our own"? Who is included in "we"? And who is, "them"?
This is on how the conflicts between the two subcultures, Taiwan and China happens, like the fishes in the Amazon, they got split up, into, subspecies, and, start living on their sides, and, one can't survive in the other's environment, and this, is what this country is, faced with right now, the government, separated us, forgetting that we were, from the same, origins from before, we're all, from CHINA, and that, is why, we will become like the fish of the rivers in Amazon, if we go over to the other side, and if those from the other side come over, we will not be able to, adapt to the diverse environments, we can't, survive (we will have the WARS!!!)………………
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