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Lovely. While out to lunch with my Taiwanese co-workers they ask if I've heard of this journalist and her story. It is plastered all over Taiwanese news. One sweet girl from Taichung (the city that the journalist focuses most of her nasty words on) turns to me and says, "I live there...it's not that bad is it?" My heart broke. You cannot talk about someone's home that way. I can see the humiliation and sadness and I feel it too. Now, what to do?

Shocked

I was really shocked to read this Taiwan-bashing article written by a Jounalist at the Montreal Gazette. What an awfully negative spin she puts on absolutely everything about the culture and environment here. It is alarming, offensive, and says much more about her sour personality and inability to embrace life and adapt to change than it does about anything that this beautiful country has to offer. What's worse is how is this going to look on Canadians? Take a read if you dare...

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Teaching+English+Culture+shock/4348511/story.html