Anybody Not Get Into An Altercation With Locals This Week?

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@TwoTon

[quote]Their history tells a very different story. So does the news in Taiwan.

OK, I’ll bite. Examples, please![/quote]

How many civil wars and massacres in Chinese history would you like to know about? They have a kind of tradition of killing each other in large numbers every 50 years or so (roughly), for no particular reason other than because they don’t get along with each other and they’ve never learned to share (China currently holds the all time record, under both Chiang Kai Shek and Mao Tse Tung). And I think sometimes they just seem to get the urge to have a good old massacre. Their much touted 5,000 years of history was once memorably referred to by a Chinese historian as the same 100 years of history, repeated 50 times (and bloody violence seems to be a key element).

But as for Taiwan itself, as Mucha Man says:

@Mucha Man

The topic of violent crime, in particular, murder, has been argued on Fcom before. The murder rate per 100,000 is comparable to the US rate, and in some years has even surpassed it. Given the US rate is degrees higher than Canada and most of Europe it is safe to assume that this is fairly violent society. Suicide is also rife as is domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and animal abuse.

Seems pretty clear to me.

I have to admit that I don’t own a TV set. But the news I occasionally watch at restaurants et al. don’t seem to show a lot of violence at all. In the news business, violence is always good money, so the media really should be digging for it any way they can…

Apparently there are sometimes good reasons for [url=Foreign Guy Brutally Beaten in Taichung it up[/url] rather than reporting it.

When I say “violence”, I’m not talking about immature lawmakers tossing mikes, or the occasional lowlife pulping his wife, no, I mean serious acts of spontaneous violence such as manslaughter or bloody riots.

How about incidents of road rage and gang violence?