That’s interesting. I always thought glass heart=meltdown.
Meltdown into passive agressiveness yes. Incandescent rage and violence, usually not.
Look at this well-known case.
Nobody would say the attackers had glass hearts.
For the record, what they did was completely wrong and justice was meted out.
But there are people like this all over Taiwan. Which is why it is prudent to mind your own business and not take the law into your own hands or flip people off even if you are in the right. Go the police if you have a problem. Then some people might say you have a glass heart 
Four men heading to jail for 2017 assault on surfer - Taipei Times)
Or just your regular old taxi driver.
Or likewise on the MRT, seniors who feel entitled to a seat.
Open your hearts to love.
Indeed.
I think we all understood what the “glass heart syndrome” means.
Why do you always pin point something insignificant and irrelevant?
You criticize the form instead of talking about the idea.
I dunno. To me a glass hearted person just seems to be a really easily offended person.
玻璃心碎一地。
- Hes a fucking man child.
I guess you’ve been in Taiwan too long 
Don’t feel bad, that was a great effort. Rules
Couldn’t these be two sides of the same coin?
Just stay in the car and back up as much as you can. Then do a short honk and wait.
Some people think very slowly. Taiwanese also have especially bad awareness of what is happening around them when in a car.
Experienced similar things a few times, but it is rare. No need to be upset and have a bad day about some random idiot. Just imagine you pit maneuvered them off a cliff. 
Perhaps they are. But the slang phrase is usually used for one side of that coin. The video I shared shows this. Both with its visuals and the lyrics.
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Despite their hard rigid outer shell, they are quite easily breakable (ie. The literal definition of glass hearts). despite what the narrative suggests (ie. A sensitive person). If a dude busts a skull on the side of the road with a bat because someone drove bad, I would suggest that dude is a fragile pussy, glass hearted as they come.
In this sense the common term in Taiwan tends to classify a soft person, not a fragile person. The worst of the worst peices of shit i have known, gangsters, military, executives whatever assholes have always been extremely egotistical and fragile. Literally the definition of what a glass heart should mean. Meanwhile people tend to think glass hearts mean sensitive peotic half gay dudes that are in touch with their inner feelings and cry a lot when they see a dirty cat on the streets. That’s a different sort of mental illness.
Doesnt seem the case. Most people in jail are there because they broke down. They were fragile. Fucking posers, has nothing to do with being “tough” or psycho. Has to do with them not being able to handle their shit, and their glass heartedness broke, landing them in cuffs. Not all, but probably at least the majority.
We need to start taking words and phrases back from the TikTok type morons and dial in reality again…
OK, so bring them up instead of holding us in suspense as usual.
A very Asian mindset of yours of kowtowing to people in power. It’s another cultural mindset I’ve been wondering about the Taiwanese when it comes to resisting China.
Hopefully not – but suppose one day there is a Chinese puppet government here, will Taiwanese bow down to an “abusive boss” because it’s what people here are conditioned to do? Obey and be subservient because might makes right?
I’ve heard so many stories of Taiwanese just putting up with abusive relationships for pragmatic reasons that I believe the Chinese cultural mindset would make most Taiwanese fall in line.
Not to detract this thread too much into becoming a political one but this is precisely the type of:
- Childish “why should I spend time/money/blood” if my big brother will not help and we risk fighting for nothing. With this type of mentality of conditioning your self-defense on the support of third parties, no one is going to take your defense seriously. Why should anyone guarantee saving you?
- Takes-no-responsibility “someone else must do the brunt of the fighting for me”
- Cowardice. Why are you afraid of fighting against someone bigger than you?
If you are convinced Taiwan is an independent country, why are you acting like a vassal state expecting your big brother to come bail out your ass? Go down fighting like a man and hand a would-be invader a Pyrrhic victory if it comes to that.
The awful contradictions of Taiwanese independence and dependence, self-defense and not-so-self-defense are summed up in that misguided paragraph of yours.
This might come as a bit of a shock to you but the ONLY people responsible for Taiwan’s defense, are Taiwanese. Act accordingly.
Who is the one extrapolating? 
They are all interwoven.
Because I am allegedly prone to extrapolations might I suppose you are a Taiwanese - American because a lot of your mentality rings like someone coming from a Chinese cultural background, but not quite.
To be fair, in Taiwan, a road raging driver would be yapping about having his moment of glory on the street. In Kigali or Kabul, the disagreements would be settled with AKs or RPGs, respectively.
Describing which problems exactly? Also can you give some examples of the vocabulary? Thanks.
I wonder if this so-called incorrect usage by foreigners will have the effect of eventually broadening the definition of glass-heart within the dominant society. Or will just continue to be used as such only by the subculture, or even sub-sub culture of foreigners.
I don’t know. I shall await confirmation from a foreigner who has been here 30+ years before I accept this.