Quite a few people were asking me to post the figures for Americans living in Taiwan in 2017 and I have added on the rest of North Americans in Taiwan. Not surprisingly, Americans are the largest group from North America, following by Canada, Mexico and Haiti. Out of 12,291 North Americans, 9,855 (80.2%) were American, […]
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Well, here is another look at demographics in Taiwan for foreign nationals, dealing with Southeast Asians. The majority of foreign nationals in Taiwan are unsurprisingly Southeast Asians, with most of them coming from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Southeast Asians: Form the Majority of Foreign Nationals They form 93.3% (674,626) of the total […]
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1. Introduction The ‘dark continent’ is a metaphor used by Western perspectives to view Africans as a people who need to be civilized and modernized. Modern Western discourse of Africa is affected by the colonization era, and more recently, by the post-colonial economic development of the continent. (Jarosz, 1992). It was Golan (2008) that found […]
Read moreAbstract Orientalism is ever present in our modern culture. It is readily available in the medium of film. This research paper set out to find what type of motifs, imagery, music and symbols were used to convey the meaning of orientalism in a modern film, namely, 2003’s Lost in Translation. Although previous studies have found […]
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Taiepi, Taiwan 09.17.2016 – When dealing with any issue, it is important to never let yourself focus on the idea of duality. You know, things are black and white or left and right. Contrasting anything this way will always inevitable lead to some kind of conflict insofar as creating ‘us’ and ‘them’ type of thinking. I […]
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