Elderly Chinese person (Cantonese):
Indigenous Taiwanese are Filipinos.

Me:
Yes. And, Filipinos and indigenous Taiwanese are called Austronesians.

Elderly Chinese:
I don’t know about that. But I know that indigenous Taiwanese are Filipinos.

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I could only smile.

Interesting how an everyday elderly Chinese person views our indigenous Taiwanese siblings.

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In the traditional nine-branch classification of the Austronesian language family, eight primary branches remained confined to Taiwan, while the ninth lineage—Malayo-Polynesian—crossed into the Philippines and became ancestral, linguistically, to the enormous Austronesian-speaking world stretching westward to Madagascar, eastward to Rapa Nui, northward to Hawaiʻi, and southward to New Zealand.