Patrick Lew
Patrick Lew
Birth Name: Patrick Allan Lew
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
Date of Birth: November 15, 1985
Ethnicity: Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese
Patrick Lew is an American grunge musician, songwriter, artist, and writer. He promotes his music via the internet. His solo project is known as Patrick Lew’s Band or The Lew Crue. His music is known production- and recording-wise, as chaotic and unconventionally recorded and mixed like a jigsaw puzzle. Stylistically by sound and lyrically, it is alternative rock and pop punk music, with socially conscious and idiosyncratic themes.
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But isn’t there a definite difference between taiwanese aborginals and people who came from china and settled in taiwan and thus their descendants become taiwanese? My dad’s from taiwan. his family has been there for many centuries but the first person in his family who came to taiwan was from china. I feel strange when i think about china. I dunno. I’m so used to taiwan and my dad’s hakka chinese family. i really can’t imagine in fact his family line originated from china. honestly i don’t know much about china. i just can’t relate to it since i grew up and saw more of taiwanese culture and language. =/
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Thats similar to asking a Japanese person if they are Yayoi Japanese (originally from Korea or China) or indigenous Japanese ( like Ainu or Ryukyuan). Most Japanese have been mixed up over the many centuries that Japan has been a single nation.
I understand what u saying. I’m a fan of his music and the stuff he did underground in the Bay Area and etc. I believe, and do think, like many whom asked. Patrick Lew is more on the Chinese and Taiwanese side than the Taiwanese aboriginal side from what you mentioned. I know Patrick is not a very famous celebrity, he’s been doing this music thingy since ’01. But, from what he said in blogs and articles he sent to the music ppl. His mother’s roots are in Taiwan but were settlers from China after WWII. He is, part Japanese, from some parts of his mom’s side.
I hope this clears things up. Ask meh if you need more info about him. No disrespect to nobodie!
I don’t understand how taiwanese can be listed under race or ethnicity. Taiwanese is a nationality. you should be more specific in stating what type of chinese taiwanese are you because there are many types in taiwan. when you refer to yourself as chinese taiwanese that says your race is chinese but you hold nationality or roots in taiwan. like the taiwanese aboriginal tribes each have different tribe names or mainlander chinese people who immigrated to taiwan from china may have an chinese ethnicity that exists in china but not taiwan. they could have settled there many generations ago and their children grew up in taiwan instead of china since immigrating there. or the hoklo chinese people in taiwan who usually speak hokkien as their native language besides mandarin. or the hakka chinese people in taiwan who speak hakka. sorry if it doesn’t make any sense if i went in too deep. it’s only my opinion and you shouldn’t feel pressured to dig deeper into your roots if you don’t want to. but i seriously disagree when taiwanese is listed under ethnicity. it’s just not specific enough for me.