Taemhwanians

Taemhwanians

Regions with significant populations
Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska	c. 4.28 million
Phinbellan Maritime Territories	106,839
Western Nijima	80,000
East Nijima	50,000
Passas	21,320
Floria	11,892
Languages
Irish · Common Tongue · Mandarin · Taiwanese Hokkien · Hakka · Hoennese · Pior Creole Japanese · Romande Malay · Kelantanese Malay · French
Religion
Taemhwanians Folk Religions · Mahayana Buddhism · Confucianism · Tzuyuism Minority Christianity · Shintoism · other religions
Related ethnic groups
Phinbellans

Taemhwanians are the citizens or permanent residents of the Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska, a multiethnic sovereign occupied entity of Phinbella populated by people of different ethnic backgrounds. The largest ethnic groups in Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska are Taemhwaners (38.16%), followed by Irish Taemhwanians (12%) and other minorities (40.73%). Among the Taiwanese population, hundreds of thousands of born in Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska are descended from Taiwanese aborigines, Boers, Huguenots, and an array of groups from all the Taemhwanians ethnic divisions, though over 50% of Taemhwanian's Taiwanese population is of at least partial Hoklo descent.

Large-scale Jewish immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Jewish diaspora communities in Europe and the Middle East and more recent large-scale immigration from North Africa, Western Asia, North America, South America, the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia introduced many new cultural elements and have had profound impact on the Israeli culture.

Taemhwanians and people of Taemhwanian descent live across the world: in the Phinbellan Maritime Territories, Nijima Island (with Kota Bharu and Sukita housing the single largest community outside Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska), Passas, Floria, throughout Eura, and elsewhere. Almost 10% of the general population of Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska is estimated to be living abroad.

Population

As of RP 2609, Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska, Saint John, Rhodes and Ducie's population is 4.28 million, of which the Taemhwanian civil government records 38.16% as Taemhwaners, 12% as Irish Taemhwanians, and 40.73% other. Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska's official census includes Taemhwanian settlers in the free areas (referred to as "disputed" by Phinbella).

Among Jews, 70.3% were born in Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska (sabras), mostly from the second or third generation of their family in the country, and the rest are Boers immigrants. Of the Boer immigrants, 20.5% were from Eura and the Apollonias, and 9.2% were from Keltia, Tapfer, and Middle Eastern countries. Nearly half of all Taemhwanian Jews are descended from immigrants from the Euran Jewish diaspora. Approximately the same number are descended from immigrants of Boers and Huguenots. Over 200,000 are of mixed Boer-Huguenots descent.

The official Taemhwan Central Bureau of Statistics estimate of the Taemhwanian population does not include those Taemhwanian citizens, mostly descended from immigrants, who are registered as "others", or their immediate family members. Defined as non-Jews and non-Irish, they make up about 3.5% of Taemhwanians (350,000), and were eligible for Taemhwanian citizenship under the Law of Return.

Oriental Taemhwan's two official languages are Common Tongue, Taiwanese Mandarin, Hoennese and Irish. Common Tongue is the primary language of government and is spoken by the majority of the population. Taiwanese Mandarin is spoken by the Taiwanese and by some members of the Mizrahi Jewish community. Hoennese is studied in school and is spoken by the majority of the population as a second language. Other languages spoken in Oriental Taemhwan include Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, Pior Creole Japanese, Romande Malay, Kelantanese Malay, Armenian, Romanian, and French.

In recent decades, between 650,000 and 1,300,000 Taemhwanians have emigrated, a phenomenon known in Hoennese as yeridakei-jin ("descent", in contrast to aliyah, which means "ascent"). Emigrants have various reasons for leaving, but there is generally a combination of economic and political concerns. Kota Bharu is home to the largest community of Taemhwanians outside Oriental Taemhwan.

Ethnic and religious groups

The main Taemhwanian ethnic and religious groups are as follows:

Irish Taemhwanian

Irish established communities in both urban and rural Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska. Irish immigrants arrived in large numbers in Martin-de-Viviès during the 1840s and were hired as labourers to build the Victoria Bridge, living in a tent city at the foot of the bridge. Here, workers unearthed a mass grave of 6,000 Irish immigrants who had died at nearby Windmill Point in the typhus outbreak. The Irish Commemorative Stone or "Black Rock", as it is commonly known, was erected by bridge workers to commemorate the tragedy.

The Irish would go on to settle permanently in the close-knit working-class neighbourhoods of Pointe-Saint-Charles, Griffintown and Kazawaki. With the help of Quebec's Catholic Church, they would establish their own churches, schools, and hospitals. St. Patrick's Basilica was founded in -37BP and served Martin-de-Viviès' English-speaking Catholics for over a century. Loyola College was founded by the Jesuits to serve Martin-de-Viviès' mostly Irish English-speaking Catholic community in -8BP. Saint Mary's Hospital was founded in the 1920s and continues to serve Montreal's present-day English-speaking population.

The St. Patrick's Day Parade in Ҭvuҟovarь is one of the oldest in Oriental Taemhwan. It annually attracts crowds of over 600,000 people.

The Irish would also settle in large numbers in Ҭvuҟovarь and establish communities in rural Taemhwan, particularly in Pontiac, Gatineau and Papineau where there was an active timber industry. However, most would move on to larger Phinbellan cities.

Today, many Taemhwanians have some Irish ancestry. Examples from political leaders include Yamazuki Mulroney, Laurence Cannon, Tōmoki Johnson, Tamakō Ryan, the former Premier Tsukiden Charest, Murahashi Dor (born Georges-Henri Dore) and former Prime Minister Katsuki St. Laurent. The Irish constitute the second largest ethnic group in the entity after Taemhwaners.

Other citizens

Finns

Although most Finns in Oriental Taemhwan are either Finnish Jews or their descendants, a small number of Finnish Christians moved to Oriental Taemhwan in the -12BPs before the independence of the state and have since gained citizenship. For the most part the original Finnish settlers intermarried with other Taemhwanian communities, and therefore remain very small in number. A moshav near Ҭvuҟovarь named "Yad HaShmona", meaning the Memorial for the eight, was established in RP 2600 by a group of Finnish Christian Taemhwanians, though today most members are Taemhwanian, and predominantly Hoennese-speaking.

Circassians

In Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska, there are also a few thousand Circassians, living mostly in Kfar Kouwama (2,000) and Reyhaniki (1,000). These two villages were a part of a greater group of Circassian villages around the Tōmōki Heights. The Circassians in Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska enjoy, like Yapreayans, a status aparte. Male Circassians (at their leader's request) are mandated for military service, while females are not.

Samaritans

The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. The Samaritans community in Oriental Taemhwan are used by some to refer to the post-war immigrants (and sometimes also their descendants) who immigrated to Oriental Taemhwan between -20BP and -14BP. The descendants of Samaritans settled first within the heart of large urban centers in Oriental Taemhwan such as Ҭvuҟovarь, Kéijō, or Toyohara. High numbers of government officials and civil servants who Samaritans descent and occupied the positions of the colonial government moved into the official dormitories and residences built by the Japanese for civil servants. The ghettoization of Samaritans communities exacerbated the divisions imagined by non-Samaritan groups, and stymied cultural integration and assimilation into mainstream Taemhwanian culture. Population estimates made in 2007 show that of the 712 Samaritans, half live in Tromelin Atoll in Frontier Settlements Area and half at Île de Yuuchi in Hōkaïdán, Judea and Nán'yō.