Dating apps in Taiwan

[mad_masala]

@The

She works 30 hours per week, with like 6 weeks of paid holidays, with option to work from home

Marry me!

[TT]

@Gain

Anyway they don’t want to date foreigners because they don’t want to speak English all the time/

Some of us speak Chinese

@Gain

move to another country/do long distance relationship

Some of us live in Taiwan

@Gain

might have cultural clash etc. etc

Can have clashes in any relationship. A foreigner who has lived in Asia for decades is different than a FOB who has never been out of their home country

@Gain

There are a million valid reasons that aren’t xenophobia and racism

I’m not seeing it

[mad_masala]

@TT

@Gain

move to another country/do long distance relationship

Some of us live in Taiwan

@Gain

might have cultural clash etc. etc

Can have clashes in any relationship. A foreigner who has lived in Asia for decades is different than a FOB who has never been out of their home country

To be fair his crowd might be very young people who would date younger foreigners who might not know if they will stay in Taiwan, will have poor Chinese language, and strong stupid USA people opinions.

[The]

What about you @Gain, are you open to date non Taiwanese. Like Philipino, Vietnamese, British or any other non Han Chinese ethnicity?

[amitkattal]

I dont really get why people get triggered when i say that most girls (not all but majority i have met which again i know arent all or maybe not even majority) do prefer foreigners over local and also prefer foreigners of a “certain” skin color and ethnicity and even the “country of origin”. I have heard dozens of reaons why which has no point of me repeating here but the whole idea opf me writing this is that its very understandable that not all foreigners of “a certain color or ethnicity” has good luck in dating. but can we accept that girls or even guys ig exist who do indeed chose people based on looks or color or country or whatever. OFCOURSE its a red flag but thats not the point. Besides how many taiwanese girls i wonder we have seen dating a migrant worker from philipines or vietnam or whatever.

Before anyone start giving counterpoints over it. I didnt write this to trigger anyone and tried best to make this post as politically correct as possible (damn thats not easy).

[Gain]

@mad_masala

Plenty of foreigners speak Chinese (bastards!)

@TT

Some of us speak Chinese

Most don’t.

@mad_masala

Plenty of foreigners want and do stay in Taiwan. Also, your friends only date with the sole purpose of getting married? that’s cool!

@TT

Some of us live in Taiwan

Many elect to move back to America/Canada/what have you after a few years.

@mad_masala

My take on that is that even within a smallish country like Taiwan, cultural differences are more of an excuse for what is opinion differences, and that there are multiple opinions and beliefs and values held by the many women living here. It is not a homogeneous, identical population, same as “foreigners” are actually people from the rest of the fuckin’ World, not just from one homogeneous, plain country.

@TT

Can have clashes in any relationship. A foreigner who has lived in Asia for decades is different than a FOB who has never been out of their home country

I don’t think they would appreciate their boyfriend complaining about Taiwanese food every day, for example.

[TT]

@Gain

@mad_masala

Plenty of foreigners speak Chinese (bastards!)

@TT

Some of us speak Chinese

Most don’t.

But can you see the difference between “I don’t want to date foreigners” and “I don’t want to date people who don’t speak Chinese”. One of these is objectively xenophobic, and one is what your friends apparently said and those can be the same one…

[Gain]

@TT

But can you see the difference between “I don’t want to date foreigners” and “I don’t want to date people who don’t speak Chinese”.

Actually no. Most foreigners don’t speak Chinese. That’s just a fact. Do you even speak it fluently?

[TT]

@Gain

@TT

Some of us live in Taiwan

Many elect to move back to America/Canada/what have you after a few years.

One of the reasons I won’t stay is it reminds me of dating in Saudi Arabia, but the Saudis paid better

[Gain]

@TT

One of the reasons I won’t stay is it reminds me of dating in Saudi Arabia, but the Saudis paid better

Why would anyone want to date someone who thinks this way?

[TT]

@Gain

@TT

Can have clashes in any relationship. A foreigner who has lived in Asia for decades is different than a FOB who has never been out of their home country

I don’t think they would appreciate their boyfriend complaining about Taiwanese food every day, for example

Good thing I take the odd day off. And anyways, apparently the locals know where the good restaurants are…

[TT]

@Gain

Do you even speak it fluently?

You’re moving the goal posts, but it is fair to say I speak with a high degree of fluency

[TT]

@Gain

@TT

One of the reasons I won’t stay is it reminds me of dating in Saudi Arabia, but the Saudis paid better

Why would anyone want to date someone who thinks this way?

Maybe I shouldn’t have made that my Tinder bio and opening message

Just kidding, of course I didn’t

[BiggusDickus]

I don’t have a problem with people saying they won’t date foreigners. If people want a relationship with someone with similar cultural values that seems fair enough.

[Gain]

@TT

You’re moving the goal posts, but it is fair to say I speak with a high degree of fluency

Idk why you are so offended by the notion that people don’t want to date someone they can’t even communicate with. Most Taiwanese people don’t speak English well and most foreigners don’t speak Chinese at all. I wouldn’t date someone who speaks no Chinese/English/French because I would like to TALK in a relationship. Is that so difficult to understand?

And with language comes other barriers like shared experience and interests. Taiwanese people mostly follow local celebrities/watch local shows and movies/listen to local music. At most they expand their repertoire to Korea/Japan. How many foreigners from the West know anything about all that?

[TT]

@BiggusDickus

If people want a relationship with someone with similar cultural values

These are different things, though. Chinese and Taiwanese share a lot of the same cultural values, same with Brits and Aussies, or Yanks and Canucks. Discounting the possibility of dating someone soley because they are a foreigner is xenophobic by definition.

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[TT]

@Gain

Idk why you are so offended by the notion that people don’t want to date someone they can’t even communicate with

That’s not what I said.

[The]

@Gain

don’t think they would appreciate their boyfriend complaining about Taiwanese food every day, for example.

My partner complains about German food all the time, I loose up mood with “but you like the German sausage, right” ?

I got almost beaten up when complained about Taiwanese food. She and siblings put me in car with serious faces, drive me to mountains. I thought this it is. This is how I will go. With disgusting taste of cheap Taiwanese
night market oil in my mouth and taste of garlic. I apologized and begged for my life. It worked

[TT]

@The

drive me to mountains

I had a couple of great meals in the mountains recently, way better than the average K-town slop

[The]

Mountain food is great, especially when there is an aboriginal flavor in it.