I’ve never heard that. Taiwan and the west were both backwards and ignorant about left-handedness back in the day. My first grade teacher beat me up about it in Australia in the early 70s but I’ve never been hassled about it in Taiwan…[/quote]
Strange my brother was born in 56 and is left handed never had a problem at school with teachers in Oz. Maybe the catholic schools dont give a crap about that but they were hard on not having long hair. My wife is left handed as well.
I’ve never heard that. Taiwan and the west were both backwards and ignorant about left-handedness back in the day. My first grade teacher beat me up about it in Australia in the early 70s but I’ve never been hassled about it in Taiwan…[/quote]
Strange my brother was born in 56 and is left handed never had a problem at school with teachers in Oz. Maybe the catholic schools dont give a crap about that but they were hard on not having long hair. My wife is left handed as well.[/quote]
I’m sure there were a few old birds in catholic schools who were still beating kids over the left hand in the early 70s despite your brother’s experience with a liberal penguin back in the day.
I’m not saying it was government policy, just pure prejudice and good old teacher training. She whacked the hell out of my left hand with the edge of a ruler, but I never let that stop me writing with my left hand.
She was a good teacher. An early lesson about how stupid people can be.
Edit: I just realised. You are Taiwanese: therefore your brothers birth-year and mine are the same. I was born in 1967, which correlates with your brother’s birth year ROC 56
I’ve never heard that. Taiwan and the west were both backwards and ignorant about left-handedness back in the day. My first grade teacher beat me up about it in Australia in the early 70s but I’ve never been hassled about it in Taiwan…[/quote]
Strange my brother was born in 56 and is left handed never had a problem at school with teachers in Oz. Maybe the catholic schools dont give a crap about that but they were hard on not having long hair. My wife is left handed as well.[/quote]
I’m sure there were a few old birds in catholic schools who were still beating kids over the left hand in the early 70s despite your brother’s experience with a liberal penguin back in the day.
I’m not saying it was government policy, just pure prejudice and good old teacher training. She whacked the hell out of my left hand with the edge of a ruler, but I never let that stop me writing with my left hand.
She was a good teacher. An early lesson about how stupid people can be.
Edit: I just realised. You are Taiwanese: therefore your brothers birth-year and mine are the same. I was born in 1967, which correlates with your brother’s birth year ROC 56[/quote]
My father was born in 1946 and was a lefty in Australia. I don’t remember him ever mentioning being beaten on the hand for it. He certainly never used his right hand for anything, it was always left.
Same here.
How’s your deathdeath year going? 
I’ve never heard that. Taiwan and the west were both backwards and ignorant about left-handedness back in the day. My first grade teacher beat me up about it in Australia in the early 70s but I’ve never been hassled about it in Taiwan…[/quote]
Strange my brother was born in 56 and is left handed never had a problem at school with teachers in Oz. Maybe the catholic schools dont give a crap about that but they were hard on not having long hair. My wife is left handed as well.[/quote]
I’m sure there were a few old birds in catholic schools who were still beating kids over the left hand in the early 70s despite your brother’s experience with a liberal penguin back in the day. I’m not saying it was government policy, just pure prejudice and good old teacher training. She whacked the hell out of my left hand with the edge of a ruler, but I never let that stop me writing with my left hand. She was a good teacher. An early lesson about how stupid people can be.
Edit: I just realised. You are Taiwanese: therefore your brothers birth-year and mine are the same. I was born in 1967, which correlates with your brother’s birth year ROC 56[/quote]
Well my brother was Australian so that is 1956 in western years. Yes in Catholic schools you got the cuts on both hands they didn’t discriminate. Often they got you on the palm of the hand and fingers on the downstroke and on the back of your hand on the upstroke if you had a rather mean person giving out the discipline. You only had a rulee you lucky bastard, we had the leather straps. A liberal penguin do you think he had one teacher for 12 years of schooling?
So when did Napoleon conquer Taiwan?
[quote=“tango42”]Maybe someone from Taiwan can answer, but I know some Taiwanese that were forced as kids to use chopsticks with right hand even though they are left handed and prefer left-handed. One even had the chopsticks rubberbanded to her right hand when she cried. She now does everything with left hand except use chopsticks.
I have no idea on why they do this, but the parents told them left hand was wrong for chopsticks and gave them the impression that people that are deficient in some way use the left hand. Mabye it so everyone at a round table can eat with the same hand and not bump elbows.[/quote]
I am from Taiwan. I have been living in US for the last 27 years so I am not sure how they do it today in Taiwan. My Taiwan-born wife is left handed. She does everything in left hand, except when holding a pen. She said she was slapped by the teachers too many times and was forced to reform.
My 84 year old China-born mother is a real left-handed. She does everything in her left hand and she never mentioned any hardship growing up in China left-handed.
When I eat with them in a crowded restaurant, I make sure not to sit on their left side to avoid sword fight.
Same here.
How’s your deathdeath year going? [/quote]
I’ve been 43 for two years in a row and next year I turn 45.
@Satellite. I went to state schools in Queensland and took a regular caning. One principle also used the strap.
My favourite teacher used to whack us on the arse with a 3ft ruler. It was actually a 1 meter blackboard ruler, but Mr Daly didn’t accept the metric system. He was a good old stick though. Tough but fair.
As I said, it wasn’t a policy to enforce right-handedness, just one teacher who had a thing about it.
I use my left to write and use chopsticks/fork but play sports, shoot, etc., with my right. With a racket I can do a decent backhand with my left but can’t do forehand, so I use my right hand. I can use a hammer with both hands but favour the right which is stronger.
I went to a state school in Queensland for a year in the late 80s. They still used the cane!!! I had to call my parents to prevent it being applied to me after I got in a cricket fight (I was the bowler and a classmate called LBW on the batter—he disagreed). The admin was going to apply it on the buttocks!!!