[quote=“citizen k”][quote=“Charlie Jack”]What Lindsey Craig wrote was bad, but not as bad as what this person wrote about Taiwan back in 2006:
taipeitimes.com/News/editori … 2003298635[/quote]
Actually, I would give this article a lot more regard than I ever could to Craig’s. First off, it is objective and uses the third party experience of the Japanese couple to establish an argument that is critical, but constructively so. He aims to draw the attention of the public to the fact that authorities could be doing much more to improve a situation he regards as important. Read that to say that he is being proactive, even though uses a negative example of the bad experience the Japanese couple had to establish his point. I don’t see anything close to that in Craig’s article at all; she does point to the dangers of culture shock, but all I see is pedantic self-absorption that could only serve to anger those with less than liberal or forgiving attitudes for an unhappiness she largely brought upon herself…What’s up next on her plate, an article about being afraid of the dark?[/quote] But the author of that editorial tore Taiwan a new one, and didn’t chalk it up to culture shock or to his or her perceptions, but rather laid the blame at Taiwan’s feet. (Please note that I’m speaking of the editorial’s author, not of myself–it ain’t my place to blame Taiwan–and that I am not addressing the merits or demerits of the editorial.)
Here’s an earlier, non-editorial article on the incident: taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ … 2003297615
Here’s the Forumosa thread on that earlier article: The Japanese criticize Taiwan's dirty streets, water
[quote=“citizen k”]She’s definitely a wimp.[/quote] Well, you can just set me down amongst the wimps, too 
(where’s the “I’m a wimp” emoticon?), because I view living here as a challenge.