If you hate Taiwan, why did you marry a Taiwanese?

[Taiwan_Luthiers]

From a lot of the posts here, seems a lot of people here hates Taiwan.

So why did you decide to come to Taiwan, marry a Taiwanese, and adopt the local custom?

[Mucha_Man]

I would guess that most people grew to hate taiwan and were not born with the condition.

[tsukinodeynatsu]

Also I think people come on here to let off steam and thus talk about the negative aspects is more common than talk about the positive.

For instance, most people aren’t very likely to talk about their SO’s being sweet and lovely 90% of the time, but they will talk about the 10% of the time their SO is a bumbling idiot.

[urodacus]

Because my wife is hot and adorable, and because we don’t live in Taiwan.

So there.

[Taffy]

I unconditionally love Taiwan and everything about it. Can I stay?

[tomthorne]

I love Taiwan even more than Taffy. Can I be president?

[jimipresley]

I didn’t marry a Taiwanese. Can I have my ice cream now, please?

[headhonchoII]

I love Taiwanese…women. Can I get half a passport now?

[tomthorne]

I hate ice cream, but I like most dairy products.

[tomthorne]

@Taiwan_Luthiers

From a lot of the posts here, seems a lot of people here hates Taiwan.

So why did you decide to come to Taiwan, marry a Taiwanese, and adopt the local custom?

Seriously, though, OP - hate is a very strong word. Do you have any examples of posts where people clearly show hatred for Taiwan? Such as suggesting that it would be OK if China annexed the island, or something similarly nasty and anti-Taiwan?

[Enigma]

@Taiwan_Luthiers

From a lot of the posts here, seems a lot of people here hates Taiwan.

So why did you decide to come to Taiwan, marry a Taiwanese, and adopt the local custom?

Because she is the best woman I have ever met and will never even think of leaving her of my new home, Taiwan.
It’s nice to have a real loved one and a truly free country, even with their sometimes stupid new and shortly enforced laws. All in all, this is the best, absolutely best, country of 35 or more that I have visited.
HOME SWEET HOME!

[Taiwan_Luthiers]

@tomthorne

@Taiwan_Luthiers

From a lot of the posts here, seems a lot of people here hates Taiwan.

So why did you decide to come to Taiwan, marry a Taiwanese, and adopt the local custom?

Seriously, though, OP - hate is a very strong word. Do you have any examples of posts where people clearly show hatred for Taiwan? Such as suggesting that it would be OK if China annexed the island, or something similarly nasty and anti-Taiwan?

I can’t point to a specific post, but numerous threads seems to indicate a general dissatisfaction about Taiwan. For example threads that talks about how hypocritical Taiwan media is, etc.

[Charlie_Phillips]

If I was back home I’d be getting on forums and slagging off about all the dickheads I met today, the stupid conversations, the bad service, the dumb drivers, the asshole boss, etc. Doesn’t mean I hate the country. I just hate the idiots. Why should I change just because I live in another country? Should I become an obsequious toady just because I’m a foreigner in another land?

If I complain my cho dofu was not stinky enough doesn’t mean I hate the country. Fcuk, I don’t even hate the vendor, I just think he’s lazy and suffers from a severe case of chaboudouism.

[tomthorne]

@Taiwan_Luthiers

@tomthorne

@Taiwan_Luthiers

From a lot of the posts here, seems a lot of people here hates Taiwan.

So why did you decide to come to Taiwan, marry a Taiwanese, and adopt the local custom?

Seriously, though, OP - hate is a very strong word. Do you have any examples of posts where people clearly show hatred for Taiwan? Such as suggesting that it would be OK if China annexed the island, or something similarly nasty and anti-Taiwan?

I can’t point to a specific post, but numerous threads seems to indicate a general dissatisfaction about Taiwan. For example threads that talks about how hypocritical Taiwan media is, etc.

But that’s not hate. My missus complains about me all the time, but she doesn’t hate me (at least, I don’t think she does )

[antarcticbeech]

I read this study the other day, about negative posting on the internet.

@Physica A 390 (2011) 2936–2944

We present an empirical study of user activity in online BBC discussion forums, measured by the number of posts written by individual debaters and the average sentiment of these posts. Nearly 2.5 million posts from over 18 thousand users were investigated. Scale-free distributions were observed for activity in individual discussion threads as well as for overall activity. The number of unique users in a thread normalized by the thread length decays with thread length, suggesting that thread life is sustained by mutual discussions rather than by independent comments. Automatic sentiment analysis shows that most posts contain negative emotions and the most active users in individual threads express predominantly negative sentiments. It follows that the average emotion of longer threads is more negative and that threads can be sustained by negative comments. An agent-based computer simulation model has been used to reproduce several essential characteristics of the analyzed system. The model stresses the role of discussions between users, especially emotionally laden quarrels between supporters of opposite opinions, and represents many observed statistics of the forum.

[tango42]

@Taiwan_Luthiers

From a lot of the posts here, seems a lot of people here hates Taiwan.

So why did you decide to come to Taiwan, marry a Taiwanese, and adopt the local custom?

Are you trying to make a connection between marrying a Taiwanese and hating Taiwan? Because I don’t get the connection.

[Ryan_the_third]

Also he seems to assume that most people here on the forum are married to taiwanese. Or at least all those that hate taiwan… or maybe its: “if you hate taiwan, why did you marry a taiwanese?” meaning “no one here hates taiwan” and therefore “no one here is married to taiwanese”

About hating certain people but not the country. Same thing is true for Bavaria and France. The countries are certainly great but the people living in them not so much.

[Mr_PBH]

@antarcticbeech

I read this study the other day, about negative posting on the internet.

@Physica A 390 (2011) 2936–2944

We present an empirical study of user activity in online BBC discussion forums, measured by the number of posts written by individual debaters and the average sentiment of these posts. Nearly 2.5 million posts from over 18 thousand users were investigated. Scale-free distributions were observed for activity in individual discussion threads as well as for overall activity. The number of unique users in a thread normalized by the thread length decays with thread length, suggesting that thread life is sustained by mutual discussions rather than by independent comments. Automatic sentiment analysis shows that most posts contain negative emotions and the most active users in individual threads express predominantly negative sentiments. It follows that the average emotion of longer threads is more negative and that threads can be sustained by negative comments. An agent-based computer simulation model has been used to reproduce several essential characteristics of the analyzed system. The model stresses the role of discussions between users, especially emotionally laden quarrels between supporters of opposite opinions, and represents many observed statistics of the forum.

wow. That sucks.

Ooops.

[Mr_PBH]

@tango42

@Taiwan_Luthiers

From a lot of the posts here, seems a lot of people here hates Taiwan.

So why did you decide to come to Taiwan, marry a Taiwanese, and adopt the local custom?

Are you trying to make a connection between marrying a Taiwanese and hating Taiwan? Because I don’t get the connection.

Right. If anything, the connection should be marrying a Taiwanese and hating marriage.

[tango42]

I don’t hate Taiwan, I hate marraige. Thus, I am not married. But I do like Taiwanese.