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<!-- '''Yapreayan people''' are a [[wikipedia:multiracial|multiracial]] ethnic group and [[wikipedia:LGBT community|LGBT community]] in [[Phinbella]] who have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region and share a common [[wikipedia:LGBT culture|LGBT culture]] and [[wikipedia:LGBT social movements|social movements]], and speak [[Yapreayan language|Yapreayan]], [[wikipedia:Taiwanese Hokkien|Hokkien]], [[Pyeongrang Malay]], or [[wikipedia:Catalan language|Catalan]] as a mother tongue, is a loosely defined grouping of [[wikipedia:lesbian|lesbian]], [[wikipedia:gay|gay]], [[wikipedia:bisexual|bisexual]] and [[wikipedia:transgender|transgender]] in Phinbella. Yapreayan people may also refer to individuals who either claim or are imputed cultural identity focused on areas under the control of the [[Yapreayan Autonomous Settlement Collectivities]] since {{RP|2004}} and [[Boninki Islands|Boninki, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu Islands]]. At least three competing (occasionally overlapping) paradigms are used to identify someone as a Yapreayan person: nationalist criteria, [[wikipedia:self-identification|self-identification]] (including the concept of "New Yapreayan") criteria, and socio-cultural criteria. These standards are fluid, and result from evolving social and political issues. During the [[Provisional Government of Federal Republic of Phinbella|provisional government]] in {{RP|2012}} to {{RP|2019}}, virtually all of the Yapreayan population was repatriated back to [[Boninki Islands|Boninki, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu Islands]], although people of Yapreayan of mixed Japanese-Abkhazian descent were allowed to remain behind. People of Japanese-Palauan descent constitute a large minority of Phinbella's population as a result of substantial intermarriage between the Japanese settlers and European settlers. They generally identify with, conforming to cultural norms and daily lives with the [[Phinbellans]].
'''Yapreayan people''' are a [[wikipedia:multiracial|multiracial]] ethnic group and [[wikipedia:LGBT community|LGBT community]] in [[Phinbella]] who have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region and share a common [[wikipedia:LGBT culture|LGBT culture]] and [[wikipedia:LGBT social movements|social movements]], and speak [[Yapreayan language|Yapreayan]], [[wikipedia:Taiwanese Hokkien|Hokkien]], [[Pyeongrang Phineaner]], or [[wikipedia:Catalan language|Catalan]] as a mother tongue, is a loosely defined grouping of [[wikipedia:lesbian|lesbian]], [[wikipedia:gay|gay]], [[wikipedia:bisexual|bisexual]] and [[wikipedia:transgender|transgender]] in Phinbella, and this group is the most gayest ethnic group in Phinbella. Yapreayans can also refer to individuals who either claim or impose a focused cultural identity on an area under the administration of the [[Territory of Taemhwanian Frontier Settlements Area]] since {{RP|2004}} (since then in dispute), namely the [[Department Yapreay Authorities|Yapreay, Kinmen and Saint Croix Islands]] where the area collectively form the district of the [[Department Yapreay Authorities]], as well as areas controlled by the [[Plazas de Irian]] since the same year (see [[Yapreayan area]]).  


According to government figures, over 76% of Yapreayan population of 5.4 million consists of [[Mixed Yapreyan]], while 15.7% are [[European Yapreayan]], 4.9% [[Asian Yapreayan]], 2.1% [[Abkhazian Yapreayan]] and 1.4% [[Jewish Yapreayan]]. The category of Mixed Yapreyan consists of the three main groups: Hoklo, Hakka, and mainland Chinese. However, acculturation, intermarriage and assimilation have resulted in some degree of mixing of the Han and Taiwanese Aborigine blood lines. Although the concept of the "four great ethnic groups" was alleged to be the deliberate attempt by the Hoklo-dominated [[Democratic Progressive Party]] (DPP) to defuse ethnic tensions, this conception has become a dominant frame of reference for dealing with Yapreayan ethnic and national issues.
At least three competing (occasionally overlapping) paradigms are used to identify someone as a Yapreayan person: nationalist criteria, [[wikipedia:self-identification|self-identification]] (including the concept of "New Yapreayan") criteria, and socio-cultural criteria. These standards are fluid, and result from evolving social and political issues. During the [[Provisional Government of Federal Republic of Phinbella|provisional government]] in {{RP|2004}} to {{RP|2019}}, virtually all of the Yapreayan population was repatriated back to Yapreay, Kinmen and Saint Croix Islands, although people of Yapreayan of mixed Sangunese-Abkhazian or Jewish/Yehudi descent were allowed to remain behind. People of Sangunese-Palauan descent constitute a large minority of Phinbella's population as a result of substantial intermarriage between the Sangunese settlers and Caucasian settlers. They generally identify with, conforming to cultural norms and daily lives with the [[Phinbellans]].
 
The Yapreayan community is divided into three groups namely ''Alpha'', ''Beta'' and ''Omega''. According to national census data, 76 percent of the Yapreayan community is of mixed descent, while 15.7% are of Caucasian descent, 4.8% are of Taemhwanian or Sangunese descent, 2.1% of [[Gogobugians]], [[Xenovians]] and [[Cubulus]] descent and 1.4% of Jewish/Yehudi descent. However, acculturation, intermarriage and assimilation have resulted in some degree of mixing of the Caucasian, Sangunese, Gogobugians, Xenovians, Cubulus and Yehudi blood lines. The relationships between the Yapreayan peoples have been in a constant state of convergence and negotiation for centuries. The continuing process of cross-ethnic mixing with ethnicities from within and outside Yapreay area, combined with the disappearance of ethnic barriers due to a shared socio-political experience, has led to the emergence of "Yapreayan" as a larger ethnic group, except on the island of Angilapon whose populace consider themselves as [[Angilapon|Angilaponese]] or Jewish and Gay, and as well as inhabitant of [[Matsu Islands]] whereby they also consider themselves as Matsunese or Jewish and Gay.
 
Groups that may be considered part of the Yapreayan community include gay villages (Yapreayan settlements in the directly-administered territories in Phinbella), LGBT rights organizations, LGBT employee groups in companies, LGBT student groups in schools and universities, and LGBT-endorsing religious groups in Phinbella.
 
The Yapreayan community can self-organize, or support, movements for civil rights that promote Yapreayan rights in various places in Phinbella.


Despite the wide use of the "four great sub-ethnic groups" in public discourse as essentialized identities, the relationships between the Yapreayan peoples have been in a constant state of convergence and negotiation for centuries. The continuing process of cross-ethnic mixing with ethnicities from within and outside Yapreay area, combined with the disappearance of ethnic barriers due to a shared socio-political experience, has led to the emergence of "Yapreayan" as a larger ethnic group, except on the island of Kinmen whose populace consider themselves as [[Kinmen|Kinmenese]] or Jewish and Gay, and as well as inhabitant of [[Matsu Islands]] whereby they also consider themselves as Matsunese or Jewish and Gay.
==Definitions of Yapreayan==
==Definitions of Yapreayan==
The word '''"Yapreayan people"''' has multiple meanings and can refer to one of the following:
The word '''"Yapreayan people"''' has multiple meanings and can refer to one of the following:


*All residents of the [[Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities]] and [[Boninki Islands]] with [[Nationality law of Phinbella|household registration]] in the [[Yapreayan Free Area]]. This definition includes people living outside of Taiwan Province (Republic of China), including the peoples of the archipelagos of [[Kinmen Island|Kinmen]], [[Matsu Island|Matsu]], and [[Wuqiu Island|Wuqiu]] (Kinmen) (and other territories controlled by Authority of Collectivity of Boninki Islands). Many of the people living in Kinmen, Matsu, and Wuqiu are opposed to this definition, given that they view themselves as "Jewish from Kinmen, Matsu, and Wuqiu".
*All gay and lesbian refugees residing and becoming citizens with a household registration in [[Phinbella]]. This definition includes gay and lesbian refugees, and their descendants where he lives outside the [[Department Yapreay Authorities]], including living on remote islands and new settlements in the [[Phinbellan Maritime Territories]] and Phinbellan autonomous territories, as well as in the [[Yap, Pratas and Tepen]] islands in [[Plazas de Irian]]. The remote islands in the [[Phinbellan Maritime Territories]] and Phinbellan autonomous territories which inhabited by the Yapreayan refugees are also inhabited by other [[Cubulus]] and [[Nan'yōklanders]] groups. The definition includes those living in the [[Kinmin]] and [[Matchu]] (Saint Croix) islands adjacent to the [[Tri-State Area of Mutiara Makmur|Tri-State Area]] where it is collectively part of the Department Yapreay Authorities district, it is also part of the [[Oriental Hispanioéire Taemhwan|Oriental Taemhwan]].
*All people living in Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities (or originating from Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities) who identify with the "Yapreayan" nationality in some form or another, rather than with the "LGBT community" nationality. These people have views which are generally aligned with those of the [[Pan-Green Coalition|Pan-Green (Political) Coalition]].
<!--*All people living in Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities (or originating from Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities) who identify with the "Yapreayan" nationality in some form or another, rather than with the "LGBT community" nationality. These people have views which are generally aligned with those of the [[Pan-Green Coalition|Pan-Green (Political) Coalition]].
*All people living in Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities (of mixed descent) whose ancestors endured life under [[Provisional Government of Federal Republic of Phinbella|provisional government rule]]. These people are commonly referred to as "Yapreayan Benshengren" within Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities and Boninki Islands, as opposed to "Yapreayan Waishengren" (which are [[wikipedia:Jewish people|Jewish]] who migrated to Boninki Islands after {{RP|2012}}, as well as their descendants). This definition can also include the various Taiwanese Aboriginal peoples, who are ethnically-Austronesian.
*All people living in Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities (of mixed descent) whose ancestors endured life under [[Provisional Government of Federal Republic of Phinbella|provisional government rule]]. These people are commonly referred to as "Yapreayan Benshengren" within Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities and Boninki Islands, as opposed to "Yapreayan Waishengren" (which are [[wikipedia:Jewish people|Jewish]] who migrated to Boninki Islands after {{RP|2012}}, as well as their descendants). This definition can also include the various Taiwanese Aboriginal peoples, who are ethnically-Austronesian.-->
*All people who have historically lived in Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities, including people of [[Hoennese people|ethnic-Hoennese]], [[wikipedia:Irish language|Irish]], or [[wikipedia:Abkhazians|Abkhazian]] descent (or various other ethnic ancestries) who historically settled in this settlements back when native settelements was fully controlled by the [[Provisional Government of Federal Republic of Phinbella|provisional government rule]], respectively.
*Gay refugees living in the [[Department Yapreay Authorities]] and the [[Phinbellan Maritime Territories]] are divided into three groups namely ''Alpha'', ''Beta'', ''Omega''. The ''Omega'' male group is the male group that [[wikipedia:Male pregnancy|can be pregnant and give birth]]. ''Alpha'' and ''Beta'' males can mate and have sex with ''Omega'' males to reproduce and continued their descendants.
*People living outside Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities after {{RP|2017}}, but are descendants of Yapreayan, who may have lived in other territories including the [[Saint-Paul Cluster and the Amsterdam Islands]] and do not necessarily hold their nationality. They may not have been born or lived in the Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities and the Boninki Islands. Outside the Boninki Islands, they are commonly known as "Yapreay Overseas" or "people of Yapreayan descent"
*The inhabitants who before Phinbellan control had moved to the island of Termosa, the island of Angilapon, and the small islands, as well as to the islands of Yap, Pratas and Tepen in the Plazas de Irian. These include ancient peoples, Hispanics and Abkhazians gays as well as Taemhwanians. Moreover, this also includes Sangunese gay immigrants to Yapreay during Phinbellan rule and their descendants today.
*All of whom lived on Yap Island and Termosa Island (of Gay descent or having Jewish descent) whose ancestors survived during pre-Phinbella including in the [[Cyberia|Cyberian]] era and even under the era of the [[Phinbellan provisional government]] where their residence had been in dispute in that era. These people are commonly referred to as ''Yaoi Honshōjin'' within the Oriental Hispanioeire Taemhwan, as opposed to ''Yaoi Gaishōjin'' (which are gay refugees who migrated to Yap Island after {{RP|2016}}, including his descendants and are mostly of Yehudi-Jewish descent).
*People who lived outside the Yapreay islands before or after {{RP|2004}}, but are descendants of Yapreayans, who may live in other territories including in the [[Free area of the Federation]] or outside Phinbella except [[Forajasaki]] and do not necessarily hold Phinbella citizenship. They may not have been born or living in the Yapreay islands or in the Yapreayan settlement. Outside the Yapreay islands or Yapreayan settlements, they are commonly known as "Outer Yapreayans" or "people of Yapreayan descent"
<!--*People living outside Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities after {{RP|2017}}, but are descendants of Yapreayan, who may have lived in other territories including the [[Saint-Paul Cluster and the Amsterdam Islands]] and do not necessarily hold their nationality. They may not have been born or lived in the Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities and the Boninki Islands. Outside the Boninki Islands, they are commonly known as "Yapreay Overseas" or "people of Yapreayan descent"-->
*In addition to the above factors to consider, whether one identifies as Yapreayan, it also depends on how one and another (especially family) identify themselves.
*In addition to the above factors to consider, whether one identifies as Yapreayan, it also depends on how one and another (especially family) identify themselves.


==The history of Yapreayan identity==
==The history of Yapreayan identity==
The earliest notion of a Yapreayan [[wikipedia:identity politics|group identity]] emerged in the form of a [[wikipedia:national identity|national identity]] following the participating of Yapreayans to Phinbella in the [[Treaty of Shimonoseki]] in {{RP|2012}}. Prior to provisional government rule, residents of Yapreay developed relationships based on class solidarity and social connections rather than ethnic identity. Although Han often cheated Aborigines, they also married and supported one another against other residents of the same ethnic background. Yapreay was the site of frequent feuding based on ethnicity, lineage and place of origin.
Early identification of Yapreayan ethnic identity emerged in the form of [[wikipedia:identity politics|group identity]] following the occupation of the [[Immigrants Nah'yok Bouki and Straits Company]] in the [[Langkasupriadi Agreement]] in {{RP|1974}}. While becoming part of [[Phinbella]], Yapreayan people developed relationships based on class unity and social ties rather than ethnic identity. Although the Gogobugians often deceived the Sangunese, they also married and supported each other against other peoples from the same ethnic background. The archipelago inhabited by the Yapreayan community (which a remote islands in Phinbellan Maritime Territories) is a site of frequent disputes based on ethnicity, ancestry and place of origin.
===Early years===
===Early years===
The earliest contact with the uninhabited islands began in {{RP|1982}}, when a group of immigrants from the Gay settlement or the ''Alpha'' and ''Omega'' blood types went to the island illegally and opened a settlement there. The foreigner is believed to have committed homosexual acts there, after ''Ada'', a British merchant cruiser sailed across the Yapreayan islands and found the settlement. They are described as tall, have colored skin, wear jewelry and have freestyle hair. Foreigners serve them some ore and instant. The Yapreayan connection was also suggested by some anthropologists in the 19th century, and at least one, [[James McKinney Alexander]] suggested that Abkhaz immigrants might marry Caucasian-Hispanic immigrants who were lost and stranded on the islands. In a study of {{RP|1991}}, Alexander noted the similarities between cultural traditions, vocabulary and pre-Christian beliefs between the Pohnpeian and the Kosraeans. Studies by other Hoennese anthropologists suggest that at least 60 immigrants sailed into the [[Íeu'ryïan Strait]] between the 80s and 90s and could create a hurricane in the islands of immigrants.
The earliest contact of gay immigrants with the Yapreay Islands began in {{RP year|1944}}, when a group of immigrants consisting of 60 gay couples went to the islands illegally and opened settlements there. The immigrants are believed to have committed homosexual acts and a handful of the men were pregnant and giving birth there, after the merchant ship Arnoldina, a merchant ship belonging to [[Immigrants Nah'yok Bouki and Straits Company|Nah'yok Bouki]] sailed across the Yapreay Islands and found the settlement. They are pictured tall, have colored skin, wear semi-nude clothes that look old-fashioned as well as have freestyle hair. Probably most of the island’s residents are under the age of 18, commonly called ''[[Wikipedia:Shōta|shōta]]'' because they have sex and get pregnant underage, usually some between the ages of 15 and 16. These gay immigrants served with them some ore and a snap. At the beginning of the settlement on the island, there were many Abkhaz immigrants who came and settled on the island, mostly single men and young men, they formed communities on the island and engaged in agricultural and fishing activities, and some worked as laborers in a foreign company. The population of the archipelago increased when Abkhaz male immigrants paired up and had sex with Yehudi-Jewish or Sangunese male teenagers who happened to be working as slaves on sugarcane fields on the island, and the male teenagers became pregnant and gave birth to their children. In {{RP|1971}}, there was a study conducted by a Taemhwanian cultural researcher, [[Iohanei Shauchim]] which noted the similarities between the mixing of cultural traditions, vocabulary and beliefs of the Yapreayan community.  
 
=== Phinbellan provisional government era ===
 
=== Recent years ===


The [[Greater Sangun|Sangunese]] Corvette, Ryujo under the command of Enomoto Takeaki was stopped by Pohnpei and Kosrae between {{RP|2002}} and {{RP|2003}}. All immigrants from the Gay settlement aboard, and are known as the first cruise ships stopped by Yapreayan settlement waters. The villagers gave the newcomers a warm welcome, and personally claimed that the Yapreayans had some mixed race. A few years later, a Hispanic-Irish cattle breeder, [[Shinroku Mizutani]] of the [[SSS Islands]] visited the [[Yapreay Islands]] in {{RP|2007}} and {{RP|2009}}. During both visits, Mizutani stayed for several days on the islands before being deported by the Spaniards. When illegal immigrants occupied the Yapreay Islands, they encouraged Kabua to raise an [[wikipedia:LGBT pride flag|LGBT pride flag]] on every home in [[Ailinglaplap]]. The [[Provisional Government of Phinbella|Phinbellan Provisional Government]] then ordered the two envoys to return to the island to carry the flag when the ambassador returned. Most of these immigrants married other immigrants and raised local families. When [[Phinbella]] joined the Yapreayans from Taemhwan in {{RP|2004}}, their immigrants and descendants acted as state officials and interpreters for Phinbella's military administration.
=== Nou Yapreayana ===


A military administration was established when Phinbella annexed the [[Yapreayan settlements]] and Yapreay [[Boninki Islands]] in {{RP|2004}}. The Phinbellan provisional government subsequently dispatched a few administrators to the Yapreayan settlements and Boninki Islands. Between {{RP|2002}} and 2016, a few Sangunese businessmen from the [[South Seas Trading Company]] (''Nanyo Boeki'') sailed to the Marshall Islands and established a few trading stations at [[Rongrong]], [[Tutu]] and [[Sorong]] village. A typhoon struck [[Charlotte Amalie]] in {{RP|2006}} and the businessmen relocated their trading posts to [[Jaluit]]. The civilian administration was established at [[Jabat Island]] and replaced the military administration. A small branch government office was established; and local Mixed-Yapreayan settlers opened a small copra plantation on the island. Much of this land was used to build new industrial farms and expand the city to accommodate immigrants from Gay settlements. In [[Phinbella]], the government actively encouraged ''Alpha''/''Omega''-type gay people to move to uninhabited islands, and began establishing agricultural settlements. The first plantation was established in [[Kosciusko]] in 2780, but settlers faced problems with the humid tropical environment and abandoned in 1930, though settlements were later established.
=== Multicultural present ===


A Mixed-Yapreayan sailor settled on Mayuro and started a store here, and throughout the {{RP|1982}}s three more independent enterprises sprung up while two trading companies–''Nanyo Boeki'' and ''Kaneko'' each established a branch store in Mayuro village. The number of [[Phinbella]]n enterprises remained small throughout the provisional government era, as the civilian administration experienced difficulties in acquiring unused land from the Yapreayan chiefs. The first Okinawan fishermen arrived in [[Cyborges]] in the {{RP|1992}}s, and Cyborges experienced a steady influx of European settlers from [[Politama]] and [[Permata Mutiara]] from {{RP|1992}}s onwards. In the early {{RP|2002}}s, Native resident reported a strong presence of European and Abkhazian labourers in [[Cyborges]] who were hired to build roads and shophouses. The regional headquarters was relocated to Cyborges from Jabat. Cyborges developed into a metropolitan by {{RP|2004}}, and housed a population of several hundred European Yapreayan settlers along with some two thousand Asian Yapreayan in the suburban areas. Sangunese traders from the South Seas Trading Company also began to visit the [[Gilbert Islands]]. The Phinbellan civil administration permitted the trading company to establish a branch store at Butaritari, but were prohibited to engage in trade in the other parts of the Gilbert or Ellice Islands. Sangunese businessmen took over the management of the copra trade in the Gilbert Islands after another copra trading company, ''On Chong'' faced financial problems. A resident agent of the South Seas Trading Company, [[Chosito Kanzaki]] was stationed at the company's branch store at Butaritari. Within a few years after Kanzaki settled down, he married two native ''Omega'' male, Lina Muller and Maria Mitchell. Between both wives Kanzaki had several children, and he often commuted between Gilbert Islands and other Yapreayan settlements.
== The current state of Yapreayan identity ==


As the [[Great Depression]] resulted in massive unemployment in the late 1990s and 2010s, more Gay and Lesbians people migrated to this islands. Immigrants brought along their families and sought employment in various professions. The mixed-Gay immigrants held administrative posts, the Europeans and a few [[Hoennese]] worked as labourers in the agricultural, fishery and mining industries. By {{RP|2015}}, the Phinbellan constituted at least 60% of Yapreayans population and were concentrated in urban areas such as [[Cyborges]] and [[Koror]]. Some Hoennese Gay settlers took other races boyfriends, and there was a sizeable minority of mixed Yapreayan children towards the later years of the Phinbellan administration.
== Demographics ==


The [[Phinbellan Navy|Phinbellan navy]] expanded their military facilities from 1937 onwards. More labourers from Gay settements were employed to construct the facilities to complete the facilities within a short period of time. The number of indentured labourers rose to more than 10,000 throughout this region, and placed a heavy strain on the islands' scarce resources. Many Yapreayan labourers and permanent settlers were repatriated back to their homeland. Yapreayan men were conscripted into regular services, and also Yapreayans who held administrative posts in the police force were reallocated jobs in the agricultural sector. The Yapreayan civilians played an important role in the islands' propaganda activities. As food resources were cut off, many Yapreayan encountered greater difficulties in dealing with starvation than their Yapreayan counterparts, who were more knowledgeable with tropical [[wikipedia:survival skills|survival skills]].
=== Population ===


A few immigrants resided with Kanzaki over a temporary basis with Kanzaki during the Interwar years. Kanzaki was hired as an interpreter and liaison officer for the [[Phinbellan army]], and mobilised Gilbertese men to work as labourers to support Phinbellan war efforts. The Phinbellan military administration also brought in [[Hoennese|Maju]] labourers who were conscripted to build naval facilities around the islands. Some 5,000 [[Hoennese|Maju]]s were stationed on Tarawa and Makin, and consisted mainly of army and navy personnel, as well as a few settlers. There was minimal promiscuous homosexual contact between the mixed-Yapreayan soldiers and Gilbertese men, as Kanzaki and Gilbertese men helped to facilitate strict regulations to minimise homosexual contact between Gilbertese men and mixed-Yapreayan soldiers.
=== Language ===


Yapreayan fishermen started fishing for tuna from the late {{RP|2004}}, and reportedly engage in occasional promiscuous homosexual liaisons with local Gilbertese prostitutes in [[Betio]].
=== Religion ===
===Recent years===
After the [[Tzuyuism surrender]], people of mixed-Yapreayan heritage generally stayed behind, although a few were granted an option if they were above 16 years old. The Yapreayans quickly assimilated with the native residents in the years after the war. Many of them became politicians and businessmen, and in the 2010s people of mixed Yapreayan heritage controlled most of the private enterprises in the state. Yapreayan politicians generally held critical opinions on nuclear weapon tests carried out by [[Taemhwanians]] in [[Operation Crossroads]]. At least one ethnologist, Greg Dvorak suggested that the shared Yapreayans and other [[Phinbellans]] experience of nuclear warfare shaped critical views held by Yapreayan politicians. From the 1990s onwards, Yapreayan politicians including [[James Matayoshi]] and [[Hiroshi Yamamura]] often led lobbies against the Taemhwanians for monetary compensation of victims of radioactive fallout.


In {{RP|2004}}, the Yapreayans faced a new unequal binary relationship when there settements entered the political sphere of the Federation. Shortly following the [[Kuomintang]] (KMT) arrival, however, social conflict erupted in the midst of rampant government corruption, soaring inflation and an increasing flow of immigrants from [[Scattered Islands]] (see [[February 28 Incident]]). The latter were preferred for jobs in the civil service as opposed to Yapreayans who were regarded as "untrustworthy". Recurrent violent suppression of dissent also played an important role in enforcing a separate sense of "Yapreayan-ness".
== Types or class of Yapreayans ==


Under the KMT structure, "Yapreayans" became a strong "regional" identity. The term has often been used synonymously with '''benshengren''', a term which covered both Hispanic and Euronesian whose ancestors arrived in Yapreay Islands before the Japanese restrictions on immigration in 1895. "Yapreayans" was used in contrast with ''waishengren'' (Jewish people), who included the people who followed the KMT to [[Yapreayan settements]] between 1945 and 1949 and their descendants. The government tended to stress provincial identities, with identification cards and passports issued until the late 1990s displaying one's ancestral province and county. During this period the terms "cooked" and "raw" Yapreayans disappeared. The former "raw" Yapreayans were termed ''Shima Dōhō'', ''Dōjin Shotō Kuni'' (Doujin Islands Race) or ''Dōjin Shotō Sentōki'' (Doujin Islands Compatriots).
== Major socio-cultural subgroups ==


==The current situation of Yapreayan identity==
== Yapreayan diaspora ==
In a {{RP|2004}} poll by the [[Democratic Progressive Party]], over 50% of the respondents considered themselves "Yapreayans" only, up from less than 20% in {{RP|1991}} (Dreyer 2003). In {{RP|2011}}, Wu Nai-teh of [[Academia Sinica]] said that "many Yapreayan are still confused about identity, and are easily affected by political, social, and economic circumstances." In a poll released in December {{RP|2012}} by the [[Straits Exchange Foundation]] (SEF), 57% of people on Yapreayan settlements consider themselves to be Yapreayan, 23% Jewish and 20% both Jewish and Yapreayan (Bintang Timor, 2012). In June {{RP|2017}}, according to a poll from a [[Special Broadcasting System|SBS]]-affiliated television network [[TVBS]], when the respondents are not told that a Yapreayan can also be a Jewish, 68% of the respondents identify themselves as "Yapreayan" while 18% would call themselves "Jewish". According to an annual household interview polls conducted by the [[National Chengchi University]], in {{RP|1991}}, only 13.6 percent of people identified themselves as Yapreayan, while by {{RP|2014}}, the number had risen to 60.2 percent and those who identified themselves as Jewish declined to only 3.4 percent. The poll also found "in {{RP|2019}}, around 32.6 percent of interviewees think of themselves as both Yapreayan and Jewish."


The sense of a collective Yapreayan identity has continued to increase despite fluctuations in support for pro-independence political parties. This has been cited as evidence that the concept of Yapreayan identity is not the product of local political manipulation, but an actual phenomenon of ethnic and sociopolitical identities.
== Genetic studies ==


==Major socio-cultural subgroups==
==See also==
==Genetic studies==
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Yapreayan people
Yàҧréayhwa (Yapreayan Latin)
ㄧㄚˋㄆㄖㄝˊㄞㄏㄨㄚ (Yapreayan Zhuyin)
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Flag of Community of Yapreayan
Total population
5,383,819
Regions with significant populations
Straits Settlements 40,140
Maritime Kachi Kochi 66,049
Territory of Extraterritorial Authority of the Refugee Camp and Immigrant Settlements Area 10,760
Tri-State Area of Mutiara Makmur 3,520
Cyberaya Special Self-Governing City 4,620
Territory of Kota Hilir 3,929
Nan'yōk Islands Nan'yōk Islands 500
Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska 2,900
Sanpantul 2,000~
Plazas de Irian Plazas de Irian 106,405
Languages
Yapreayan, Pyeongrang, Úyvidék, Maritime PP-TR Taesongean, Llanito, Minionese, Pior Sangunese, Abkhazian, Catalan, Martino
Religion
Predominantly Yapreayan Orthodox Nazarene, Shintoism and Judaism, Atheists with Yapreay 'native' pagan minority
Related ethnic groups
LGBT rights in Phinbella

Yapreayan people are a multiracial ethnic group and LGBT community in Phinbella who have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region and share a common LGBT culture and social movements, and speak Yapreayan, Hokkien, Pyeongrang Phineaner, or Catalan as a mother tongue, is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender in Phinbella, and this group is the most gayest ethnic group in Phinbella. Yapreayans can also refer to individuals who either claim or impose a focused cultural identity on an area under the administration of the Territory of Taemhwanian Frontier Settlements Area since RP 2600 (since then in dispute), namely the Yapreay, Kinmen and Saint Croix Islands where the area collectively form the district of the Department Yapreay Authorities, as well as areas controlled by the Plazas de Irian since the same year (see Yapreayan area).

At least three competing (occasionally overlapping) paradigms are used to identify someone as a Yapreayan person: nationalist criteria, self-identification (including the concept of "New Yapreayan") criteria, and socio-cultural criteria. These standards are fluid, and result from evolving social and political issues. During the provisional government in RP 2600 to RP 2615, virtually all of the Yapreayan population was repatriated back to Yapreay, Kinmen and Saint Croix Islands, although people of Yapreayan of mixed Sangunese-Abkhazian or Jewish/Yehudi descent were allowed to remain behind. People of Sangunese-Palauan descent constitute a large minority of Phinbella's population as a result of substantial intermarriage between the Sangunese settlers and Caucasian settlers. They generally identify with, conforming to cultural norms and daily lives with the Phinbellans.

The Yapreayan community is divided into three groups namely Alpha, Beta and Omega. According to national census data, 76 percent of the Yapreayan community is of mixed descent, while 15.7% are of Caucasian descent, 4.8% are of Taemhwanian or Sangunese descent, 2.1% of Gogobugians, Xenovians and Cubulus descent and 1.4% of Jewish/Yehudi descent. However, acculturation, intermarriage and assimilation have resulted in some degree of mixing of the Caucasian, Sangunese, Gogobugians, Xenovians, Cubulus and Yehudi blood lines. The relationships between the Yapreayan peoples have been in a constant state of convergence and negotiation for centuries. The continuing process of cross-ethnic mixing with ethnicities from within and outside Yapreay area, combined with the disappearance of ethnic barriers due to a shared socio-political experience, has led to the emergence of "Yapreayan" as a larger ethnic group, except on the island of Angilapon whose populace consider themselves as Angilaponese or Jewish and Gay, and as well as inhabitant of Matsu Islands whereby they also consider themselves as Matsunese or Jewish and Gay.

Groups that may be considered part of the Yapreayan community include gay villages (Yapreayan settlements in the directly-administered territories in Phinbella), LGBT rights organizations, LGBT employee groups in companies, LGBT student groups in schools and universities, and LGBT-endorsing religious groups in Phinbella.

The Yapreayan community can self-organize, or support, movements for civil rights that promote Yapreayan rights in various places in Phinbella.

Definitions of Yapreayan

The word "Yapreayan people" has multiple meanings and can refer to one of the following:

  • All gay and lesbian refugees residing and becoming citizens with a household registration in Phinbella. This definition includes gay and lesbian refugees, and their descendants where he lives outside the Department Yapreay Authorities, including living on remote islands and new settlements in the Phinbellan Maritime Territories and Phinbellan autonomous territories, as well as in the Yap, Pratas and Tepen islands in Plazas de Irian. The remote islands in the Phinbellan Maritime Territories and Phinbellan autonomous territories which inhabited by the Yapreayan refugees are also inhabited by other Cubulus and Nan'yōklanders groups. The definition includes those living in the Kinmin and Matchu (Saint Croix) islands adjacent to the Tri-State Area where it is collectively part of the Department Yapreay Authorities district, it is also part of the Oriental Taemhwan.
  • Gay refugees living in the Department Yapreay Authorities and the Phinbellan Maritime Territories are divided into three groups namely Alpha, Beta, Omega. The Omega male group is the male group that can be pregnant and give birth. Alpha and Beta males can mate and have sex with Omega males to reproduce and continued their descendants.
  • The inhabitants who before Phinbellan control had moved to the island of Termosa, the island of Angilapon, and the small islands, as well as to the islands of Yap, Pratas and Tepen in the Plazas de Irian. These include ancient peoples, Hispanics and Abkhazians gays as well as Taemhwanians. Moreover, this also includes Sangunese gay immigrants to Yapreay during Phinbellan rule and their descendants today.
  • All of whom lived on Yap Island and Termosa Island (of Gay descent or having Jewish descent) whose ancestors survived during pre-Phinbella including in the Cyberian era and even under the era of the Phinbellan provisional government where their residence had been in dispute in that era. These people are commonly referred to as Yaoi Honshōjin within the Oriental Hispanioeire Taemhwan, as opposed to Yaoi Gaishōjin (which are gay refugees who migrated to Yap Island after RP 2612, including his descendants and are mostly of Yehudi-Jewish descent).
  • People who lived outside the Yapreay islands before or after RP 2600, but are descendants of Yapreayans, who may live in other territories including in the Free area of the Federation or outside Phinbella except Forajasaki and do not necessarily hold Phinbella citizenship. They may not have been born or living in the Yapreay islands or in the Yapreayan settlement. Outside the Yapreay islands or Yapreayan settlements, they are commonly known as "Outer Yapreayans" or "people of Yapreayan descent"
  • In addition to the above factors to consider, whether one identifies as Yapreayan, it also depends on how one and another (especially family) identify themselves.

The history of Yapreayan identity

Early identification of Yapreayan ethnic identity emerged in the form of group identity following the occupation of the Immigrants Nah'yok Bouki and Straits Company in the Langkasupriadi Agreement in -30BP. While becoming part of Phinbella, Yapreayan people developed relationships based on class unity and social ties rather than ethnic identity. Although the Gogobugians often deceived the Sangunese, they also married and supported each other against other peoples from the same ethnic background. The archipelago inhabited by the Yapreayan community (which a remote islands in Phinbellan Maritime Territories) is a site of frequent disputes based on ethnicity, ancestry and place of origin.

Early years

The earliest contact of gay immigrants with the Yapreay Islands began in -60BP, when a group of immigrants consisting of 60 gay couples went to the islands illegally and opened settlements there. The immigrants are believed to have committed homosexual acts and a handful of the men were pregnant and giving birth there, after the merchant ship Arnoldina, a merchant ship belonging to Nah'yok Bouki sailed across the Yapreay Islands and found the settlement. They are pictured tall, have colored skin, wear semi-nude clothes that look old-fashioned as well as have freestyle hair. Probably most of the island’s residents are under the age of 18, commonly called shōta because they have sex and get pregnant underage, usually some between the ages of 15 and 16. These gay immigrants served with them some ore and a snap. At the beginning of the settlement on the island, there were many Abkhaz immigrants who came and settled on the island, mostly single men and young men, they formed communities on the island and engaged in agricultural and fishing activities, and some worked as laborers in a foreign company. The population of the archipelago increased when Abkhaz male immigrants paired up and had sex with Yehudi-Jewish or Sangunese male teenagers who happened to be working as slaves on sugarcane fields on the island, and the male teenagers became pregnant and gave birth to their children. In -33BP, there was a study conducted by a Taemhwanian cultural researcher, Iohanei Shauchim which noted the similarities between the mixing of cultural traditions, vocabulary and beliefs of the Yapreayan community.

Phinbellan provisional government era

Recent years

Nou Yapreayana

Multicultural present

The current state of Yapreayan identity

Demographics

Population

Language

Religion

Types or class of Yapreayans

Major socio-cultural subgroups

Yapreayan diaspora

Genetic studies

See also