Yapreayan people
| Yàҧréayhwa (Yapreayan Latin) ㄧㄚˋㄆㄖㄝˊㄞㄏㄨㄚ (Yapreayan Zhuyin) | |
 Flag of Community of Yapreayan | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 5,383,819 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Straits Settlements(Boninki, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu Islands) |
106,405 |
 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 |
 Metropolitan Territory of Hulu Teming |
506,348 |
 Pinnacle Strip and SSS Islands |
4,683,968 |
 Carey Islands Special Self-Governing City |
3,929 |
 Cyberaya Special Self-Governing City |
4,620 |
| File:Flag of Oriental Taemhwan.png Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska | 2,900 |
 Sanpantul |
2,000~ |
| Languages | |
| Yapreayan, Pyeongrang, Úyvidék, Maritime PP-TR Korean, Llanito, Minionese, Pior Japanese, Abkhazian, Catalan, Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Yapreayan Orthodox Christianity, Shintoism and Judaism with Yapreay 'native' pagan minority | |
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 Malay, or Catalan as a mother tongue, is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual and 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 2600 and Boninki, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu Islands. 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 2608 to RP 2615, virtually all of the Yapreayan population was repatriated back to 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.
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.
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 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
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 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, Matsu, and 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 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 (Political) Coalition.
- All people living in Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities (of mixed descent) whose ancestors endured life under 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 Jewish who migrated to Boninki Islands after RP 2608, 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 ethnic-Hoennese, Irish, or Abkhazian descent (or various other ethnic ancestries) who historically settled in this settlements back when native settelements was fully controlled by the provisional government rule, respectively.
- People living outside Yapreayan Settlements Collectivities after RP 2613, 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.
The history of Yapreayan identity
The earliest notion of a Yapreayan group identity emerged in the form of a national identity following the participating of Yapreayans to Phinbella in the Treaty of Shimonoseki in RP 2608. 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.
