An American Taiwanese dude tells the truth about Taiwan. Seems the guy lives in the states, but worked in Taiwan for several years. Cannot really argue with most of the content.
whats the white privilege about? white people are allowed to leave early while everyone else has to do unpaid overtime or they just take it upon themselves to leave?
Just watched the white privilege video - couldnāt help myself.
Iām a white guy 3 years out of university. I have a western salary but Iād be considered underpaid in my field by US standards. And even then the high salaries he talks about for white people in Taiwan are garbage for me.
I think itās easier to blame a small minority group for doing betterā¦ Itās much easier and less challenging than thinking other thoughts. Like maybe the fact your pay is so low and your hours are so long is because your culture worships authority and age. That maybe itās up to Taiwanese people to improve Taiwanese working conditions and salaries, and that white people have nothing to do with it. Or that maybe Taiwanese bosses would much rather hire a cheap Taiwanese worker than a foreigner, but there are some jobs that they just canāt do that for.
I wish Taiwan and its workers all the best. There are a lot of younger entrepreneurs these days, and Iād bet on them to lead the way forward. But at the end of the day, itās totally not my problem or responsibility.
To be fair, he didnāt seem to be blaming white people for the situation, merely complaining that they were taking advantage of itā¦which of course is sour grapes to some extent. I think he shows a pretty good understanding of how and why Taiwanās work landscape is so messed up.
Thatās not all he said though, he said Taiwanese women who date white people are ignorant, it must be because they have never lived or studied overseas, or white guys only date the Asians girls that are āweirdā looking (hahaā¦Iāve seen many smoking hot girls dating whitesā¦and black dudes to be fairā¦).
Heās a racist and mysoginist and it almost all comes down to his girlfriend dumped him for a white guy in the past so he decided to spread hate on the Internet. The only thing original about him is he put his face and identity out in the open. He wants to spread lies about white people and foreigners in general and poison society against us. Thereās only a few thousand āwhiteā people in Taiwan so heās a real scumbag targeting a minority like that.
How about he hands back that American passport and stops abusing his American privilege :). Since he directly insulted my wife and took a cheap shot at every girl I ever loved or dated here heād better hope he doesnāt bump into me down a dark alley.
Probably a good half of Taiwanās male population thinks this way, so youād have a lot of people to beat up. If I let that kind of attitude bother me, Iād have gone crazy a long time ago.
Iāve only watched part of the first one. Now I need to go to the Patriarchy office to cash in my white privilege check while hot asian girls queue up begging me do date them. Brb.
Really? Youād beat up a local for saying hurtful things on the interwebs?
How do you think that court case will go? Do you think people will be sympathetic to a foreigner assaulting a Taiwanese person over mean words?
Itās not the west. Youāre different from the locals - that has its good points and its bad points. One of its bad points is you do not get into a fight with a local no matter what.
This logic could be applied the other way too: foreign girls who date Asian men are just ignorant, have never seen real Asian men in Asia, and are probably busted looking. Iām sure heād love to hear that.
I donāt quite understand all the hate in the comments here. Did you guys actually watch the videos? Heās calling out Taiwanese companies/bosses for all sorts of bullsh*t that happens all too regularlyāand urging people to stand up. I welcome this sort of unvarnished take on things. I would have thought that most forumosans would appreciate this too.
ā¦reap what you sow.