Lin-sanity’s parents are ethnic Chinese that immigrated from Taiwan. But ocrenter is right, that not all Taiwanese are Chinese. But most Taiwanese are ethnic Chinese, mostly from South China. The indigenous people in Taiwan are Austranesians which are closely related to the indigenous population in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. Although in the Philippines (specially in the big cities), the modern Filipino is a mutt of Chinese/Spanish/Japanese/Indian/Malay among others.
