Fear of conflict.
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âFriendlyâ
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I depends how you use it.
One short horn blast or headlight flash to communicate with the other driver to make them aware is not illegal. Art. 41 (horn), Art. 42 (lights)
Must be brief and necessary.
In the odd case where the police would think it was unnecessary to make the driver aware that they are impeding traffic, the fines are not high.
It is not allowed to continuously use them to intimidate the other driver to move to the other lane. Such use can be fined between NT $6,000 â 24,000 depending on how aggressive it was.
Impeding traffic is just NT$3,000 â 6,000 fine and hard to prove. Police very rarely enforces it only in extreme cases.
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Going to national parks and still just sit at benches there and eat and gossip for hours is so taiwanese
Most of those folks do a good hike/trek and then want to take a nap or hang.
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For sure, sometimes those 2 can be conflated. But in my experience the fear of and the being friendly are 2 distinct things with a minor overlap.
Taiwanese, on average, are insanely friendly. Especially publicly. The switch to anger, however, is often sensitive. To which I find if a person smiles and is overal positive, the vast majority here are friendly and very easy to become long lasting friends.
I like to use driving as a good barometer of a personâs temper and maturity. Be it Taiwan or elsewhere.
The law has been changed to allowing signitures. I have no idea why some institutions insist on requiring stamping chop.
When not on the highway, poor traffic planning, illegal parking, and scooters getting to do whatever they want mean the inner and outer lane could be blocked at anytime. On the highway, there has been people pushing the claim that when major accidents happen, like traffic from the opposite direction crashing through the divider, cars driving in the inner lane get hit the most. Also, the law actually says inner lanes are for passing only.
Not my experience at all.
Just no lol.
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Iâm from Germany. What do you mean, the Taiwanese are inflexible people?
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You missed the core point 
Itâs so easy to befriend people here I actually make an effort to avoid people just due to lack of time.
Hu dat
Often if you are filling out any bank documents, if you made any correction, or appearance of a correction, the bank require you to sign your name where the correction was made. This gets tedious very fast, and Chinese characters can be really hard to write repeatedly. Chops expedite this.
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Is that how we got the âchop chopâ expression?
Whereat?
Easy to fake as well. They are all scanned and printed 
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Eh, just apologize profusely for the hassle, say youâre allergic. 
Or have a medical condition. 
Anyway, point is, changing things is basically saying you donât like how they make the food, which is a loss of face for them.
This way they save face (maybe even gain for being so helpful!) and you get what you want. 
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What are you talking about?
Taiwan is a low cost manufacturing ecosystem. The advanced technology is imported.
Modern computers are based on Greek logic. He said the logic is very different here.
So, it all makes sense.
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Manufacturing a chip is harder than designing one, and the IP to do that belongs to TSMC. Design is just selecting components.
Furthermore, four of the top ten semiconductor designers are Taiwanese, including the market-leading phone chip designer (Mediatek).
The other six are American and three of them have Taiwan-born CEOs.