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Miyazaki
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject: Taipei is Full of Hill Billies |
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What a backward, farmer-mentality population of people.
Throwbacks.
Taiwan - even Taipei - is full of farmer, hill billy-types driving Mercedes.
I got on the bus the other day and the driver had no shoes on, pants rolled up, and chewing tobacco. He also had some Chinese country music turned up and blaring for all to hear.
What bunch of red necks - even in the city.
The Japanese are so much more refined than the Chinese/Taiwanese.
Why is that? |
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markholmes
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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Location: Wengehua
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, San Chong, now this is 'NEGATIVE BIAS'. 
Miyazaki, if you think Taiwan is full of hill billies you haven't spent enough time in China.
You are either;
1) Drunk
2) Suffering from Cultural shock
3) Having a break down
4) All of the above
Having lived in China, Taiwan (north and south) and Japan, Taiwan was by far my favourite place for everyday living, but perhaps not for sightseeing / cultural outings.
Perhaps it's time for a vacation. |
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Henry_Cowell
Joined: 27 May 2005
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Location: Berkeley
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't forget: "Miyazaki" is one of Aristotle's stooges, a full-blooded Taiwan hater. Nothing that these stooges write should be taken seriously. It's just hate speech, which of course is fully protected. We can just ignore it. |
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SanChong
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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When you read something like the above, I guess you just have to smile 
There really is no other reaction to have.
What a hateful person you are, Miyazaki. I hope you find ways to be happy. |
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Miyazaki
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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Location: My Father's Yacht
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| Funny, people can look at the exact same thing but have a completely different take on it. |
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Northwood
Joined: 08 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Mizayaki wrote:
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I got on the bus the other day and the driver had no shoes on, pants rolled up, and chewing tobacco. He also had some Chinese country music turned up and blaring for all to hear.
What bunch of red necks - even in the city.
The Japanese are so much more refined than the Chinese/Taiwanese.
Why is that? |
Well, perhaps it is not the clothing or music that people listen to that should be solely considered when assessing how well 'refined' a race or nation is. You might also do well to take a larger sample for your reasearch purposes. It is said, for example, that the true colours of race/nation are best observed during prolonged hardship, like wars. Let's put the Japanese under the spot light for a moment, just for the fun and hell of it:
'It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers � and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada (but not Russia) you faced a 4 % chance of not surviving the war; [by comparison] the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30 %.'
Chalmers Johnson.
Many thanks for the thread Mizayaki. I hope to meet the driver one day - he sounds like a cool dude. |
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Northwood
Joined: 08 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry for spelling your name wrong Miyazaki. I'm an American, the least refined of them all. |
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SanChong
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: |
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thankfully, the moderators deleted Miyazaki's entire "This forum is boring like... everything in Taiwan" thread after I reported him.
Hopefully, they choose to continually delete his/her posts if they are prejudiced and inflammatory. It wouldn't be a bad idea to remove this thread either.
You have clearly been stepping over the line a lot more often lately. |
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trukesehammer
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:04 am Post subject: Re: Taipei is Full of Hill Billies |
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| hill billies in Mercedes... |
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| bus driver... chewing tobacco. |
That wasn't tobacco, my friend!
Incidentally, not that I'm kissing anybody's butt or anything, but I've heard these criticisms before, mostly from the Taiwanese themselves!  It's kind of scary going out with my local friends when they roll their eyes and tell me, "Taiwanese people are so stupid and blah-blah-blah." I feel like sooner or later they're gonna get me tarred and feathered! |
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Serious_Fun
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Miyazaki wrote: |
| What a backward, farmer-mentality population of people. [snip] |
... These forums can be a great way to "ventilate" if one is having problems...
The rest of us may have a bad day in the future...
...and we'll be sure to post the details here...
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markholmes
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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Location: Wengehua
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:18 am Post subject: |
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... These forums can be a great way to "ventilate" if one is having problems...
The rest of us may have a bad day in the future...
...and we'll be sure to post the details here... |
And no doubt Sanchong will you report you to the moderator for having 'negative bias'.
Very cool photo trukesehammer  |
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mookamook
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
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Location: Suratthani, Thailand
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Oy vey, yous guys is makin' me coockoo!
I'm sittin here in California, tryin' to figure out if I wanna step back out of my guilded cage. Yikes! is it all really that bad? I just wanna run away 'til the Bush nightmare is over here. Maybe come back with a couple G's in da pants.....tell me, am I dreamin'? |
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Serious_Fun
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| mookamook wrote: |
| I'm sittin here in California, tryin' to figure out if I wanna step back out of my gilded cage. |
Do your research and then make the informed decision! I suggest that you go for it! 
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| I just wanna run away 'til the Bush nightmare is over here. .....tell me, am I dreamin'? |
In my humble opinion the nightmare will not go away...new iterations will be presented as "reform", but the US has changed irrevocably...but this is not the forum for that discussion.
Good luck! |
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trukesehammer
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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Location: The Vatican
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| mookamook wrote: |
Oy vey, yous guys is makin' me coockoo!
I'm sittin here in California, tryin' to figure out if I wanna step back out of my guilded cage. Yikes! is it all really that bad? I just wanna run away 'til the Bush nightmare is over here. Maybe come back with a couple G's in da pants.....tell me, am I dreamin'? |
Actually, I was just thinking the life here in Taiwan is so much better than the nightmare I lived back in the States. But I don't want to launch into another one of my tirades.
As for the Bush nightmare being over, don't hold your breath. And in many ways, putting Democrats in the office is often worse. Either way, you're screwed nowadays. So come on over; the water's fine. Just be careful to boil it for 20 minutes first. Who knows? You might get sucked into the Taiwanese Black Hole like a lot of us (meaning once you get in, you never want out). |
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