Uncultured behavior from Asians

To add what others have said, it's hard to wipe out years of colonization and waves of invaders. Portugese, Dutch, Koxinga, Japanese, KMT, etc. Taiwanese propensity for certain fried foods might have come from the Portugese, and later reinforced by the Japanese. Christianity, namely the Presbyterian church came from an Englishman (you can count this as colonization of a sort). The church played an important role in the resistance against the KMT newcomers from the 50s to the 90s and even today is loosely associated with the independence movement. I don't know if it's used anymore, but the word in local vernacular for concrete is red-bush-soil. Came from the Dutch I believe. When I younger, I had strands of red and salt and pepper hear. I knew one Taiwanese guy, who otherwise looked Asian, with blue eyes.

I do think Japanese influence was particularly strong. There are strong ties between the Japanese and Taiwanese governments today. All of my grandparents were old enough to have been forced to speak Japanese. My grandmother said Japanese rule was harsh, but fair. My dad said they at least they weren't corrupt. The Japanese promoted cleanliness and installed sanitation systems. Japanese government officials actually performed santitation checks on homes. Doing stuff like wiping the top of the doorsill with white gloves. Explains why my grandmother was a clean freak. She was very proud to have received A+ grades from the Japanese officials for cleaniness.

After WWII, Taiwanese were super happy to have finally been freed from Japanese rule, only to discover the KMT and their troops were dirty, had lice, and did gross shit like poo in the middle of the street. They were also corrupt. Chiang-Kai-Shek was one of the most successful gangsters of them all, just below Francisco Franco. The KMT did snobby shit like mock the local Taiwanese / Hokkein language. Both sides of my family (from the mid / south of Taiwan) were part of the resistance, along with Finn, Rey, etc.

A lot of people today don't know that martial law (basically meaning the KMT government could do WTF they wanted to and make you mysteriously commit suicide) actually ended in 1986. I remember those times as kid, the secret meetings, and other resistance members asking my dad "hey, who the f**k is that waisheng ren (literally outside of province dude)" which my dad would have to vouch for him: "he's OK, he's not secret police. He was just a poor f**k that Chiang-Kai Shek conscripted in China as a kid 40 years ago". My grandfather on my mother's side was more brazen against the KMT. But he had means, so he didn't worry. He could bribe his way out.

P.S. This probably adds some context to Westerners who see mainlainder sock puppets accusing pro indepedence Taiwanese of being Japanese symphasizers or half-breed Japanese. The Taiwanese experience of Japanese colonziation was mixed, and with the passage of time, viewed more positively. It's like what my grandmother said, just follow their rules, and you wouldn't get your head cut off by a sword.

 

It's also about what "just is" without qualifiers. Western first world societies seem to have this incessant need to categorize everything in right or wrong, true or false, racist or not racist, etc. Therefore terms like rando can get totally taken the wrong way. It's like dude, you're a rando, not a Friend. It is what it is. Don't get worked up about it. It's not good. It's not bad; unless you really want it to bad. Can we imagine an equivalent highly contextual term like laowai actually being used in the USA? LOL, the SJW and PC Police would be all over it!

 

I still remember the words to a folk song that my grandmother taught me when I was four. It's called tee oh oh. Very silly and pretty much describes this place. Pronounciation and translation are mine. I did a minimalist translation so as to not alter the meaning and feel. May not be accurate.

tee oh oh, beh loh hoh
sky black black, gonna rain

a gong a giah di tao beh guut oh
granpa grabs the hoe to dig up taro (root)

guut a guut, guut a guut
dig a dig, dig a dig

guut dyo ji beh suan lu goh
digs up a catfish (some of kind of catfish native to the region)

yi ah he doh jin gia, tzhoo be
he ends up (with) seriously/really interesting/fascinating (moment)
(he goes WTF - curiosity WTF)

a gong beh tzu giam, a ma beh tzu jia
granpa wants to cook salty, granma wants to cook plain

leng eh sho pa, long pua dia, long pua dia
two of them fight, smash break pan(s), smash break pan(s)

yi ah he doh long dong chi dong chiang, wa ha ha
they end up (with) <sound of pots and pans breaking>, wah ha ha

 

Yeah. That's it! LOL. Granpa and granma look too young. Must be Asian genes. Or they might actually be grandparents - people got married super young back then. There's another Taiwanese folk song which is kind of like Stevie Nick's Edge of Seventeen.

 

Done. Make sure to say it like how a Klingon would. Hokkien pronounciation is very different from Mandarin. Like a softer and faster Klingonese. No pauses (like in ST: Discovery).

 

Just ban guns for people under the age of 35.