Largely passing by unnoticed by anyone who doesn’t speak fluent Chinese, Taiwan’s local media run stories every few months or so that, although usually not directly, criticise the general concept of Taiwanese women and girls dating non-Taiwanese men. Playing on an inferiority complex that’s easy to push (Taiwan is full of succesful but unattractive men [...]
If you caught your spouse cheating on you in bed with another person… how much trust would you have in that person? Would you trust your spouse to not cheat on you in the future? Would you trust them with your money? Your life? As one Taiwanese husband recently found out, whatever trust is extended [...]
When it comes to marriage, I’m a firm believer that if it’s ever going to happen then it’s not going to be without thoroughly getting to know the other person over a number of years. None of this ‘we just met yesterday let’s get married I love you forever!’ crap. Unfortunately however the above appears [...]
You’re sitting at a bar minding your own business. It’s late enough that the groups of friends have gone home but not too late that everybody who set out to go home with someone has. ‘Hey you, what do you think?’ You turn around and standing there is a young woman in a dress. Seconds [...]
One of the things that you’ll notice as you travel down the road to Wulai Township is a series of orange-coloured statues that dot the roadside. Fashioned to inject a bit of Atayal aboriginal culture into the area, the statues feature along the roadside into Wulai Township, with a few inside the township itself. Some [...]
Thankfully I’ve never been through the experience of coming home to find my wife or girlfriend in bed with another man. Had I of found myself in such a situation here in Taiwan however, I could have very easily found myself in jail for trying to do something about it – as one Mr. Huang [...]
In a country where women weighing over 40kg might be considered morbidly obese and worthy of such horrific shame, it’s understandable that being called a ‘fat pig’ might evoke somewhat of a strong response. One particular Taiwanese woman took being called a fat pit so strongly that she went ahead and filed a defamation suit [...]
Click a Facebook ‘Like’ button? Defamation! Call somebody a communist? $10,000 TWD fine! Complain about salty beef noodles? JAIL AND $200,000 TWD FINE! As Taiwanese society struggles to comprehend the depths a generation of Taiwanese princesses and little emperors will sink to to protect their precious feelings, an all-time low was reached last Thursday when an [...]
Trains in Taiwan are usually pretty clean. There’s garbage collectors who run through the trains every hour or so and I’ve yet to walk into a carriage and find my seat dirty or damaged. That said, be warned the next time you board a Taiwan Rail Administration (TRA) train that you might be sitting in [...]
Every New Years Eve billions of people from around the world see the new year in by making a set of resolutions they have no intention of keeping. Along with these wishes come a series of hopes, plans, dreams and aspirations. If I had to describe Taiwan’s Lantern Festival to someone – I’d do so [...]
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