click here to read the worst article about taiwan EVER! narrow-minded, unadaptable people like this should just stay in their home countries. and people like this certainly shouldn't be able to paint such an ugly, public picture of a place she hardly knows. how did this piece ever get past the editors? she didn't attempt to make local friends, or to learn the language, or even try to adapt and learn something about the culture. she wanted to stay in her foreign bubble and trash talk about the locals. i can not STAND this kind of attitude. this girl needed a dose of reality -- the whole world isn't like canada. open your eyes and see the beauty in the strangeness and the differences.
i think it's funny how, at the end of the article, after she concedes that she should have prepared herself more for the experience, she says that the experience in taiwan gave her "an incredible perspective on the world and its people." really? then why didn't you have a little more cultural sensitivity and write about the beauty of taiwan and its culture and its people instead of just trashing the place and making it sound like a horrible place to live, and even to visit?
ok, can you tell that this article has me really fired up? :) you know i have to stand up for my dear taiwan.
if you're interested in coming to taiwan, please please please don't believe what this girl says. taiwan is a wonderful, beautiful place with wonderful, beautiful people. taiwan, i love you!
They've posted responses to all the criticism, just FYI.
ReplyDeleteIt's so unfortunate that there are people like that in Taiwan when there are people who would kill to be there and have her spot/opportunity.
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