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A different look at Asia, China and Taiwan
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Taipei After Dark - Andrew Harris 1969 Sexpose Travelogue The Taiwanese "The World Is So Big" TV show visits Israel Expat English language Blogs in Taiwan continued Touring Taichung : Big Laughing Buddha, Art Street and Jing MingChina
The Chinese Israel bashing in response to China bashing on Israeli media Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white Israel at the Beijing Olympics : What do the Chinese think of Jews? Our medallists : Taiwan’s Chen Wei-ling and Israel’s Shahar Zubari
- "I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now", as unrealistic as it may be.
- "There is no spoon" - no such thing as objective data, everything is open for interpretation. Gut instincts will always win over proven data and experts opinion.
- Unity for about a second, then ongoing acute international dispute.
- There are no private matters. Everything… everything… should be discussed publicly.
- There is no "face concept". "Face" is meant to be destroyed.
- "Guan-xi " - connections are everything, especially those you have from the army.
- No hierarchy, everybody's the big boss.
- Being in a group is always better than being alone.
- Love to hate yourself. Love to hate your culture. Always complain. Always make fun of those who complain.
- You 're wrong, I'm right.
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Yuri
| April 17th, 2007 at 6:48 am #
hehehe… it’s funny. hurray Israel!
kvetching, kvetching, kvetching.. I can’t wait to see Israel myself. Uhmmm probably it will be after I graduate.
fiLi
| April 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pm #
There are some good exchange programs in Israel with many of foreign universities. I suggest you check that out, maybe come visit Israel for a semester or two.
Uri
| April 20th, 2007 at 4:37 pm #
Yuri
| April 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pm #
fiLi, your comments made me daydream of me enjoying myself and Israel…. ah, how wonderful that would be..!! But right now I can’t miss opportunities that York offers, Modern History of the Jews by the best prof whom I’ve ever had and some seminar courses. I will prepare, and then I will be so there in Israel someday. Hopefully when I get to a graduate school, exchange programs will be the perfect option. I’ve always thought, when I visit Israel I’d commit myself to a Kibbutz, but exchange programs also sounds great!
Todah for -:)