The girl at the cash register in McDonalds in Hualien struggles to understand the Mandarin-speaking customer. She is slightly darker (and more beautiful) than the other Taiwanese teens flipping burgers and making fries. If it weren’t for her non-standard Chinese, you would have no way of knowing that she is a member of the Ami, Taiwan’s largest indigeno…
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