“Arelis Gabot, a Dominican Republic native, who immigrated to Taiwan seventeen years-ago is now the proud title holder of the first non-ethnic Taiwanese to hold public office, The China Post reported”:
[quote]Arelis Gabot, a Dominican Republic native, who immigrated to Taiwan seventeen years-ago is now the proud title holder of the first non-ethnic Taiwanese to hold public office.
After receiving her Taiwanese citizenship in February of this year, Gabot was qualified to hold the position of Neighborhood Chief of East Gate’s sixteenth neighborhood. In March she was formally inducted to her new position under the supervision of East Gate Ward Chief, Liu Chao-ling (劉兆琳).
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[/quote] chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/nati … native.htm
More: tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/ … 2pafl.html
In the article they refer to her as “non- ethnic Taiwanese”, which to me is even worse. I was originally going to write “atoga” but that could be misinterpreted. How about New Taiwanese?
Edit: Anyway, what is “ethnic Taiwanese”?? They should just simply say she’s the first Taiwanese immigrant to hold public office. Then again, Chiang Kai Shek was really the first, unless you want to go back as far as Cheng Zheng Gong, in which case, the Dutch or Spanish governors would take that title (although, they left and didn’t stay, i.e. not immigrants; so I guess the half-Japanese, half-Chinese immigrant, Cheng Zheng Gong, gets the title by default). But, let’s not let history get in the way. Either way, it’s a good achievement and I applaud her.