"waishengren" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 外省人 (wàishěngrén), literally \"outside province people\" (from the point of view that Taiwan was a province of the Republic of China and they were migrants from other provinces).",
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          "ref": "2000 August 18, Takefumi Hayada, “The complexity of the Taiwanese”, in Taipei Times",
          "text": "What surprised me was that it was not a \"waishengren\" who had such a deep consciousness of Chinese history, but a \"bensheng-ren\"[...]Many Japanese people residing in Taiwan, including myself, receive a lot of help from benshengren, who are fluent in Japanese. We often hear them complain about waishengren and China, while they appear to cherish Japan.",
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          "ref": "2011, Joshua Fan, China's Homeless Generation: Voices from the Veterans of the Chinese Civil War, 1940s-1990s, Routledge, page 151",
          "text": "Recent studies and surveys have shown that most of the Waishengren have already taken this opportunity and are gravitating toward a “New Taiwanese” identity.",
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          "ref": "2021 August 4, Sarah A. Topol, “Is Taiwan Next?”, in The New York Times Magazine",
          "text": "The tsunami of around 1.5 million exiles who accompanied Chiang to Taiwan produced two castes: benshengren — people from this province — and waishengren — people from outside this province[...]Nancy’s father identified as Chinese, waishengren from Jiangxi Province, like his father before him.",
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        "a category of people and their descendants who fled mainland China for Taiwan after 1945 in response to the Nationalists losing the Chinese Civil War; sometimes regarded as an ethnic group."
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          "ref": "2000 August 18, Takefumi Hayada, “The complexity of the Taiwanese”, in Taipei Times",
          "text": "What surprised me was that it was not a \"waishengren\" who had such a deep consciousness of Chinese history, but a \"bensheng-ren\"[...]Many Japanese people residing in Taiwan, including myself, receive a lot of help from benshengren, who are fluent in Japanese. We often hear them complain about waishengren and China, while they appear to cherish Japan.",
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