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blackguy-n-Asia
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 Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject: Does the color of skin matter in Taiwan? |
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| If you had darker skin and dark hair, or if you were philipino, african, mediterianian, middle eastern, south american---anywhere around the equator---dark, would people in Taiwan treat you differently than a blonde hair, blue eyed person from, lets say....Europe? If so, why? |
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buddy bradley
Joined: 14 Jul 2004
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Location: The Beyond
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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You should know this if are indeed in Asia as you claim to be: Yes. Yes, they will treat you differently.
It's not as bad as South Korea, but most Taiwanese people do not like black people (well, they don't like any dark skin) and are actually afraid of blacks.
Why? Well, they consider dark skin to be dirty. If you're a dark-skinned Taiwanese, it means that you work in the fields and are thus uneducated.
Also, a lot of Taiwanese associate blacks with the bruthas they see when they watch films, and are inclined to think that all black people are gangstas.
That's the way it is in Taiwan. I met about 10 black people during my two and a half years there and only one of them really enjoyed Taiwan.
Maybe stay in Korea for a while and then go to Taiwan; that way it won't seem so bad. |
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A.K.A.T.D.N.
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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You're living in a day and age where skin is detox and heroin addicts an achronism.
Welcome to Chicago, 50% African-American.
I've been black all my life, and they still don't know my name. |
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Fortigurn
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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My wife is black. She was apprehensive when we came, but she hasn't experienced a shred of prejudice. She's been welcomed unquestioningly and uncritically by everyone she has met. Heck, she experienced more racism back in the States!
She takes four people for private English tutoring, and they don't seem to have any qualms whatever about her colour. |
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Aristotle
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Location: Taiwan
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:32 am Post subject: |
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My wife is black. She was apprehensive when we came, but she hasn't experienced a shred of prejudice. She's been welcomed unquestioningly and uncritically by everyone she has met. Heck, she experienced more racism back in the States!
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Ignorance is bliss. Let's hope she never learns Chinese or she will be in for an eye opener.
Yes, you would be treated differently but you know that already. One of the most pitiful things about Taiwan is what little anyone can do about changing the local peoples attitudes. The elected government blatantly encourages racist behavior in it laws, regulations and prejudicial treatment of people with darker complexions or non Chinese ethnicity.
Welcome to Taiwan,
A. |
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blackguy-n-Asia
Joined: 21 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Aristotle wrote:
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Right. Even here in Canada, I see attitudes from the taiwanese. Not pretty at all.
I'm going on a trip to Asia starting in Banglasdesh in October and ending in Mongolia in July.
You will not see me in Taiwan. Hell no. Better people in the world to visit. Sorry to offend. |
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Libertarian
Joined: 05 Apr 2003
Posts: 313
Location: Future Republic of Taiwan
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Unfortunately, anybody who`s not of North East Asian ethnic stock will always be a foreigner. The worst jobs at the language mills prefer someone young, white and female. However, if you have good credentials you could get a better job in a real school as they look at your qualifications. I wouldn`t write off Taiwan completely. |
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Fortigurn
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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My wife is black. She was apprehensive when we came, but she hasn't experienced a shred of prejudice. She's been welcomed unquestioningly and uncritically by everyone she has met. Heck, she experienced more racism back in the States!
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Ignorance is bliss. Let's hope she never learns Chinese or she will be in for an eye opener. |
No she won't. |
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Fortigurn
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| blackguy-n-Asia wrote: |
Aristotle wrote:
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| but you know that already |
Right. Even here in Canada, I see attitudes from the taiwanese. Not pretty at all.
I'm going on a trip to Asia starting in Banglasdesh in October and ending in Mongolia in July.
You will not see me in Taiwan. Hell no. Better people in the world to visit. Sorry to offend. |
I think you need to come here and experience it for yourself before making those kinds of judgments. It would be like me judging the Africans in the US or Canada on the basis of AKATDN's behaviour here in Taiwan. |
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A.K.A.T.D.N.
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