From: RAJA@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
Subject: Re: Those Typical Taiwanese
Organization: University of Florida, NERDC
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:13:35 EST

In article <1993Jan19.190234.16700@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
kao@cae.wisc.edu (Chengheng Kao) writes:
 
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>As a student from taiwan myself, I have to admit that I was often (very often,
> more often than I deserved, at least) embarrassed by the behaviors of my
>fellow countrymen. ( My fellow countrywomen also had their due share.) Before
>I first left Taiwan, I thought that all the police in the world were as
>corrupted as the police in Taiwan, that there were whore houses all over the
>streets in the rest of the world just like in taiwan, that people of the whole
>world will kill any wild-life (actually any walking animals or flying
>birds they can found) just like people in taiwan. I can not resist to tell
>you a true story here.
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>        ********The Last Squirrel**********
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>This story is about a squirrel.
>I attended the Taichung First Senior High School. If you attended the same
>school (many of you netters did, I believe.) around 1979-1982. You might
>knew this squirrel too.  There is a small garden beside the classrooms.
>One day, one classmate of mine found a squirrel on a tree in the garden.
>I do not want to mention his name here. Because till this day, I am still
>not sure he was the first  guy to see the little animal. We gave the credit
>to him anyway because he was the guy who screamed during a
>class when he saw it. To be honest with you, we (at least I) did not know it
>was a squirrel until years later I came to american and found many such
>creatures arounds the street. My american friends told me "Stupid squirrel,
>they are squirrels!"  This was the first time I am called a squirrel. She could
>be in lots of troubles if she had not said it in a loving manners.
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>Anyway, the squirrel did not live another week after it was found. A guy
>brought a air gun to the school. With the help of some twenty peolpe including
>a teacher in cornering it, this poor animal suffered a fatal head shot and
>died instantly. I did not know what happen to the body of the squirrel. The guy
>shot it threaten to put a similar hole onto anyone attemp to touch his pray.
>But somewhere in my mind I know he ate the poor thing. It was my first squirrel
>and , unfortunately, my last one I ever saw in taiwan. It was also the only
>wild-life I ever seen ( if squirrel can be called a wild-life) in some
>20 odd years in Taiwan.
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>This story is about a squirrel, but it tell
>you a lot about the people in taiwan.
 
Let me also add one story (it actually means fact, don't take it literally)
 
    *** The Story of One Oversea Taiwanese Student Giving Advice ***
    *** to Other Oversea Students on How to Save Money in US     ***
 
About three to four years ago, one student put an article on the "Chong Yang
Daily ?" (a KMT partisan newspaper) about ways of saving money in US as an
oversea student.  He gave three ways.  Two of them are:
 
(1) when you go to fast food restaurants, pick up as many plastic knifes and
    folks and napkins you can for use at home.
 
(2) Delay bill payments such as hospital bill for as long as possible.  He was
    able to delay one for more than half a year (if remember correctly) without
    getting any fine.
 
My mind became so sick after reading this article.  Just what kind of an editor
back at your home country would allow the giving of such disgusting advice?
Obviuosly, the editor thought (1) and (2) were acceptable.  Another article
appeared a few days later, apparently trying to point out (1) and (2) are
not decent ways of saving money.
                              -- not a mainlander.
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>Kao
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