My wife told me that. Probably before 2004, they spend way less money.
More investment. It has to be. If it was by population the olympics would also be dominated by Indonesia, and India, which it isn’t.
I’m always surprised how relatively poorly the USA do in week one each time. Once the athletics start though… BOOM.
Every sport becomes expensive when a coach is involved in Taiwan. In the UK, Sunday league is run by volunteers. In Taiwan, it gets expensive fast and the parents have to do a lot of running around.
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Because the infrastructure is missing. It’s mostly foreigners earning a salary coaching. I got at least eight friends doing nothing but coaching.
Science & Math
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Same reason they are generally superior in music and movies and the arts as musicians
South Koreans are not just dedicated
They are fanatics
Taiwanese are very good at sports playing in front of a computer or cellphone.!!
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That was actually the government policy. The DoE told parents and teachers to encourage boys to play computer games and not to play sports. They wanted to produce a generation of engineers. And they did. Greasy maladjusted engineers with no motor skills and no social skills. (Sorry venting, I have to work with the maladjusts on a daily basis. )
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Definitely no social skills
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Branding is not the most important thing in tech. Taiwan owns technological leadership in the what are the hardest things to make.
Although there are strong cultural reasons Taiwan isn’t good at branding, it’s commonly known that God chose Asians to do engineering and white people to do marketing.
Samsung’s chief marketing officer, for example, was a white guy for a long time.
+Cooking competitions
+Whisky competitions
Definitely a lot of truth here.
It might be infuriating for them to be sitting there, putting components together… and then some smooth-butter white guy comes along, stamps a logo on the box and 5x’s the price. That must drive them mad, haha.
I wonder why they are not so good at branding? Maybe because honing a brand requires 100s of “No, that won’t work” conversations, and it takes them too long?
European-Asian partnerships can work well if everyone sticks to what they’re good at.
I noticed that we have a lot of respect for their craftsmanship, hard work, local wisdom, etc. But they seem to more grudging about our skills, which they see as black magic and demagoguery…
They flounder in the marketplace cos they go ahead and make these cheeseball adverts that any 16 year old marketing student would laugh at. No attention paid to lighting, sound, script, originality. There was a big example in Korea a few years back, I can’t remember exactly what…
For reals. Literally no one even fails swimming class!
Sports are important to aboriginals, that’s for sure. Almost half of all pro baseball players are aboriginal now.
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Lol
They are not in front of computer screens all the time probably
so was checking, saw small Jamaica has more points than Taiwan, now i know its the peppers.
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Jerk chicken!
Baseball is one sport Taiwan takes seriously. The number of high school kids who can clock 94mph and higher is way up.
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Wrong. What city do see many people playing baseball? Taiwanese, and younger ones at that play other sports takes seriously like basketball and football and others… I get lots chat from Taiwanese mates about football in Japan (and Korean football stars in euro leauges)
I like to play baseball, and it’s getting harder in Taiwan to find people to play…, younger people like whole lot other sports.
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