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I cant wait to go this week to my cottage!!

Would you like someone to speak English while I will be in Taiwan in August?

As an American student traveling to Taipei for study abroad who doesn’t speak Mandarin, this is very comforting. I wish I knew earlier that I would be traveling there so I could learn more!

You are one brave woman iris y!! ❤️❤️

proud of you iris as being a taiwanese!!

I know HK well and have live there for a few years. I had even stayed with a few HK colleagues when I was working in Malaysia. I will say that basically HK people are very flexible, sometimes even to the point of hypocrisy. Before 1997, all HK people will say they are Hongkongers and worshipped the whites, and same time looked down on the mainlanders. After 1997, they will call themselves Chinese and call China their fatherland. Yes, they can just throw a switch that fast. Just a few days' ago, I was in Hong Kong on a business trip and stayed in a hotel. I was going up to my room, and was first to enter the lift, when I saw a group of maybe 4 persons rushing to enter the lift. I immediately pressed the "OPEN" button and told them nicely that I will hold the lift and say to them no need to rush. When they entered the lift, I expected them to say a word of thanks but all 4 of them kept quiet. As the y stayed on a lower floor, they got out first and again they kept quiet and not even eyeing at all. Logically speaking, I thought they would at least say a word of thanks either upon entering or leaving the lift, but none of them said anything. I find this very strange. Whether or not they are Hongkongers or China mainlanders, I don't know becoz none of them said a word while in the lift. Is it part of their lives to take things for granted or just plain rude ? I don't know.

Depends on your ethnicity and wealthy , Taiwan people is fake Taiwanese discriminate south East Asian, Indian a lot, but very friendly to white people, rich people. Taiwan is a country of discrimination and double sided.

Unfortunately I've been to Taiwan approx' 8 times for business. One time I got totally lost, NOT ONE PERSON EVEN STOPPED WHEN WE ASKED FOR GUIDANCE !!! TAIWANESE PEOPLE ARE RUDE, ARROGANT AND COLD !!! NEXT TIME I HAVE TO GO I WILL TAKE HIDDEN CAMERA AND POST ON UA-cam FOR ALL TO SEE THE REAL TAIWAN !!!

홍콩의 찬란했던 과거를 알고있기에, 그래서 홍콩인 들이 자부심이 넘치는것을 알고있기에 더욱더 그들만의 문화와 언어는 존중받아야 하고 계속 존속해야 한다고 생각합니다.

Of course, NOT

you just filming crotches bro 😂

I was there in 1992. It was the most unfriendly City I have ever been to! I met some Filipina OFW's and they treated me like I was in their home, and they took me to restaurants and showed me around and they were just workers there. How nice of them!

Ironically, the wait staff are likely to be recent immigrants from the mainland.

Allahu akbar

Based on the comments I think people are opposite in Taiwan

Good day, I really need to speak with you iris Y... Send me your contact is very urgent

I once knew a girl who went by Judy in class. Her Chinese mother pronounced it like 脚底. The girl didn't like it, apparently, and told her classmate. Her classmate didn't understand. So, the girl raised her feet to illustrate what she meant. Suffice it to say, the girl changed her name to Julie.

The girl's Chinese name is Yating. So, her English name may be Yasmine or maybe Yazzie or maybe Yay-yay or maybe Yasmina or maybe Tina.

I love that you enter the temple on the right side . 😊 Much like how it is about accessing the right hemisphere of the brain.

การทดลองนี้เสียเปล่ามากครับ ผมมาฮ่องกงหลายครั้ง (ไม่อยากมา เเต่มีความจำเป็นต้องมา) ทุกครั้ง 7ใน10 ร้านอาหาร จะต้องโดนคนฮ่องกงด่า อย่ามาพูดว่า fast pace city อะไร การพูดดูก็รู้ว่า ต้องการจะด่า ทั้งๆที่เราไม่ได้ทำไรผิด เราเเค่ฟังไม่ออก ถ้าเเบบนี้ ก็อย่ามาโปรโมทการท่องเที่ยว. เข้าใจนะว่าประเทศกดดัน เเต่ถ้าคุณขายของเอาเงินคนอื่นไปเเล้ว ก็ไม่มีสิทธิ์เอาความกดดันส่วนตัว มาลงที่คนอื่น.

If you are polite to others , they’ll always be polite to you ! ❤️

Safer than San Francisco, that is for sure

Philippines is the kingdom of inferiority complex

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I don't think Hong Kong people are rude. They're just straightforward and blunt. People are working and under pressure. Money is everything. Go to New York or Paris. It's the same way. As long as you're not too rude, then they won't be rude to you. I was eating dim sum at a small restaurant and this lady next to me starting yelling at the staff in Cantonese. The staff yelled back at her in Cantonese. So just be respectful and don't ask for too much and it's fine.

Wowwww I can't believe I never saw this video. I'm the one in green pants filming with the GoPro. Thank you so much for helping us navigate that run-in with the police. So sorry you ended up getting taken to the station! Gotta get back to Taiwan someday, we had such an awesome trip! There's a video of our trip up on themintskate's UA-cam channel if you ever wanna see it! Much love!!

Self hate

If you want to do an experiment to confirm whether true or not, you don't start with English, then later Mandarin. You start with your most Beijing-accented Mandarin that leaves no further doubt that you are from China, then see what's the response. This is a failed experiment imo. Lol...

i studied in Taiwan before

I wish I can be in Taiwan My dream country I'm from Nigeria

I hope Taiwan will be like this forever , not under China or independence of China . So that problems can be avoided with China. At the same time , it can have freedom if it is not under China.

I think the older generation is somewhat prejudice towards anyone that speaks Mandarin since most Mandarin speakers were from Mainland China. Back in the days, other than Cantonese, English was the second language, not Mandarin. But in todays younger to middle generation, more HK folks have learned Mandarin in school (required by the government), so there are more people that know Mandarin more so than English. Just like in France, a lot of folks have learned English as a second language and are extremely fluent, they would just prefer that you speak to them in French or at least try to when first communicating. Once they figure out you are not a native French speaker (but tried speaking French) and realize that you know English, they usually are very open to start speaking in English to you. Same goes for HK when it comes to speaking Cantonese, English and Mandarin.

Buddha 🙏

Do you need a chef I am the caribbean born of Tobago

You are just not doing it right. Go to a small shop say selling shoes, browse around for 20 mins and ask to try a size, then reject ask for another to try, see the reaction you will get.

Yea the system sucks, even they have road test now, they still keep this unpractical range test for students to practice parking and reverse with lines only.

Sample size N=20? May as well just write down the data in the spreadsheet 1 | Mandarin | 1-10 scale 2 | Mandarin | 2.5 ... 99 | english | 5

I met 2 Africans outside the 7/11 in Taiwan last night, I'm from Australia and if they had the same attitude in my country I would have gone home got my gun... They were looking at the young girls & talking, laughing & licking their lips !!! DISGUSTING !!!!

You may have an inferiority complex because by Asian standards, you are not pretty and a little chubby.

speaking mandarin doesnt mean that come from Mainland !!!

Nice, Chinese culture rocks!

I think that is a good idea from you.

you need to let your interviewees finish their sentences before incessantly interrupting them or finishing their sentences

I read many commenters using fast paced of life as an excuse. A person being rude is not a matter of how fast paced their society is. It is a reflection of their cultural upbringing or the lack of it. Though I suspect the reasons for their rudeness and frustrations were the results of STRESS living in those inhumanely build TINY apartments. People are unable to LITERALLY relax at home to release tension!

first time i hear that norwegians are tall. you hear all the time that dutch people are tall, but norwegians? when i was in norway, i didnt notice that. just my observation tho.

hongkies are one of the rudest ppl you can meet. even between close friends, they will to 'chuen' each other. the words they use are inflamatory, rude, insensitive and not courteous and meant to insult.

As a foreigner, I would like to see Mainlanders respect Hong Kong’s cultural differences rather than criticize. If u want to generalize, every other country thinks Mainlanders are rude.

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I actually thought that it was based on a Buddhist belief, just like burning the body releases the soul, then I studied it and found out that the practice can be traced back to 200 BC, that is 1000 years before Buddhism xD so that destroyed that theory. :-D Then I learned that the Hanshi festival from the Tang dynasty was integrated into the Qingming festival. Just like how the 上巳节 was integrated into the Hanshi festival before it. Activities such as Qushui Liushang, spring outings, as well as taking a bath to rid of the filth and so on still spread down through each iteration of the festivals. :-) Festivals such as the double-third festival from the Tang dynasty got updated from scratch in the Song dynasty. This is why the Qingming festival got updated as well. The Song tried to unite the different customs. In some provinces Qingming was to take a bath and get rid of the filth, while in Jiangxi people went out with boxes of wine and had a blast on the greenery, but then again in Anhui people would have dragon boat races or build land boats Fuzhu, these were religious activities of eliminating disasters and begging for blessing. :-D There is not a single culture and there has never been a single culture. That is the beauty of it all. :-) you do you, and I do me. :-D

makes sense to spend more time trying to park than to drive. Much harder to park than to barrel down the highway