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but it indicates something about the local culture. In the early 70s, while in the Peace Corps, I was taking a bit of vacation time and visiting Taiwan. My buddies and I took a tout to Tarako Gorge which included a stop at a town where marble was shaped (and sold to tourists) and where a fair number of the 'aborigines' lived and worked, and some were at the tourist bus stop wearing their colorful indigenous outfits, etc. etc.. I did not at the time speak any Chinese, just Korean and Malay. But I could speak to the aborigines using Malay. Very interesting. It wasn't quite the same, but it was close enough.
