台灣已經不再適合外國人了｜台灣人正在摧毀台灣他們不知道自己在做什麼
外國人眼中的台灣｜外國人在台灣｜Foreigners in Taiwan | Living in Taiwan
我来台湾时，他们正在宣传台湾是真正的中国
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那是在文化大革命期间，所以根据台湾人的说法，中国人在文化大革命中摧毁了他们的文化，如果我真的想看看真正的中国，我就必须来台湾。台湾非常非常美丽，但我认为他们不知道在利用这种美丽时他们在做什么。
我的名字是 James Steed，我的中文名字是地政士，我从1976年就一直在台湾，已经接近 50 年了。我来台湾在东海大学学习普通话并在那里教书。在东海一年后，我搬到了台北，在台湾大学任教了六七年，在那里开了一所语言学校，制作了台北的旅游地图，然后我搬到了高雄。
回到1976年的记忆，你来这里学习中文，你选择来这里学习中文的主要原因是什么？我在美国大学的国际办公室（国际学生和教职员工事务）工作，在那里我遇到了一些台湾人，我真的很喜欢台湾人，我开始和他们交越来越多的朋友，他们甚至教我如何在那里做一些中国菜，然后我开始在那里学习中文，快毕业了，我不想回家，这一点也不有趣，人们在那里唯一做的就是抽烟和喝酒。我想离开那里所以我想，所以我会去台湾，所以我去了台湾，因为无论如何我所有的朋友都在台湾，所以这就是我来到这里的原因。
您会给第一次来台湾的游客什么建议
我带人们出去，我什至不再考虑向他们展示什么，因为我认为一切都是理所当然的
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我记得有一次我姐姐来看我，那天晚上我准备做饭
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我们去了市场，问姐姐“你喜欢哪只鸡”
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她说她喜欢那只鸡，那是一只到处跑的活鸡
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当我说那只鸡时，他们抓起那只鸡，砍下它的头，然后把它扔进这个东西里，把它的羽毛撕碎了
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我姐姐只是尖叫“天啊！你对这只可怜的鸡做了什么，她认为它很可爱，对吗？”
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但我根本没想过，我只是指着它，这就是在某些地方你可以得到一只鸡的方法
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但这真的吓坏了我妹妹
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所以我不知道什么会影响人们或不会影响人们
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台湾人非常友好，他们喜欢结识新朋友，所以人们来这里参观真的很容易
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我听很多人说无论你作为外国人在这里呆了多久，台湾人仍然将你视为外国人
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就你而言，台湾人如何看待你已经在这里呆了近 50 年了
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我是台湾人
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我放弃了美国公民身份
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我有台湾国籍，但他们根本不会认为我是台湾人，是的，他们根本不会认为我是台湾人
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我一直在这里，我的中文非常好，我的一生基本上都在这里，从我23岁到72岁
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所以他们根本不会认为我是台湾人
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如果你要改变台湾的任何事情，你会改变什么？
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我希望他们对外国人更加开放
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他们说他们对外国人开放，他们说他们对待外国人很好
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人们对外国人很好，但在官方层面上，外国人很难把事情做好
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就像他们很难获得银行账户、信用卡或获得其他人很容易获得的东西
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或到前夕买房子
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对我来说，我在高雄买了房子，我什至不知道我可以买房子
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只有我的一个朋友这么做了，因为大家都认为外国人不能买房
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我只是认为台湾应该正式对外国人更加开放，以便提供更多帮助
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因为他们这里的人口正在减少，所以如果他们的人口增加的话那就太好了
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他们自己不会开始增加人口，所以还有机会
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这就是我希望看到他们做的事情，尽管这不再困扰我了
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因为我是台湾人，所以我现在没有任何问题，现在一切对我来说都很容易
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我现在可以做很多以前做不到的事情
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在我不是台湾公民期间，我缴纳的税款在25%到30%之间
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但我无能为力，因为我不是台湾人
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你缴纳了所有这些税，但你没有权利，这有点乱
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所以我认为他们可以稍微改变一下，这就是我的想法
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您对那些想成为台湾人的外国人有什么建议？
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那是非常不同的
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我的意思是人们认为我放弃美国公民身份是疯了
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连美国政府都认为我疯了
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以前我去AIT的时候，很容易，他们欢迎我，等等等等
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现在如果我去那里，“你在这里做什么，你需要这个，你需要那个才能来这里”现在就很不一样了
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所以你需要仔细考虑一下
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问题是，中国遇到了所有这些问题以及正在发生的事情
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所以我的朋友们说“詹姆斯，如果你在台湾遭到袭击，没有人会来救你”
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“你要靠自己”所以不会有直升机带我走
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对于对此感到担忧的外国人，您有什么要说的吗？
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我想每个人都知道那里发生了什么
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台湾不想被中国统治，中国认为他们有权统治他们，因为他们认为无论如何台湾一直是他们的财产
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然而台湾已经变了
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我来台湾的时候他们正在宣传台湾是真正的中国，那是在文化大革命时期吧
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所以根据台湾人的说法，中国人在文化大革命中摧毁了他们的文化
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如果我真的想看到真正的中国，我就必须来台湾，他们就是这样宣传自己的
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真正的中国在台湾，当然现在每个人都说我们不是中国，所以有一个很大的变化
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我不太喜欢美国及其处理问题的方式，因为美国只想出售武器
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美国不再为赢得战争而打仗，他们只是为了摧毁人民的经济而打仗
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所以如果这场战争发生，他们就会努力摧毁中国的经济
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但我们在台湾，正处于这种情况的中间，我发现我们不得不陷入这种情况，这非常令人不安
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我希望有一天会有某种奇迹发生
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我希望也许或者我希望中国能变得更加民主一点，我希望台湾比你们少一点恐惧
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因为实际上中国人真的很喜欢台湾人，他们和台湾人没有任何矛盾
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这只是政府，政府，都是政府的事情
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那么你来这里是为了学习中文，为什么你决定停留这么久呢？
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嗯，我来台湾学习中文，我打算学两年
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然后我打算搬到伊朗并在那里学习波斯语，因为我认为波斯语是一门美丽的语言
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所以我想我可能会去伊朗学习波斯语，但后来他们与美国人之间存在很大的政治问题
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那时美国人去伊朗会非常非常危险，而我在台北有两份非常非常好的工作，所以我就留下来
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在这里工作这么久，作为一个外国人在台湾工作怎么样？
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每个人的经历都不同，对我来说我一直很幸运
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现在我觉得没那么美妙了，这里老师的工资已经很久没有涨了
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虽然台湾人认为外国人教英语赚了很多钱，但事实上他们并没有
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所以我认为目前在这里教学并不是一件好事，外国人在这里除了教英语之外没有太多其他事情可以做
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我不认为对于大多数外国人来说这是一个很棒的工作场所，它曾经是
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现在因为人口减少所以学生不多了
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再加上现在的学生和以前有很大不同，他们以前很努力，但现在不行，而且注意力不集中
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我让他们非常努力，他们的英语进步很快
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但现在不不，如果他们每周给你 3 个小时并且你愿意的话，你就很幸运了给他们做任何家庭作业，大约十分之一的人会做
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这就是为什么我提前几年从大学退休，现在我是一名编辑，所以我编辑医学和科学研究
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我还使用德国的一台名为 time waiver 的机器，它会读取你周围的频率
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一切都有频率，一切，这张桌子，你的话语，你的想法，一切都有频率
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他们记录了超过 50,000 人的频率以及宝石、精油、每一个不同的咒语、基督教中不同天使的频率
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他们已经完成了所有频率和单词的记录，然后他们读取您的频率并将其与正确的频率相匹配
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他们称之为共鸣，因此他们通过查找与您匹配的频率来解释您周围的信息
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所以它可以为你提供你周围的信息
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有趣的是，它可以让你深入了解周围发生的事情
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你知道什么，有些你不知道，然后它可以调整它们
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因为这一切都是基于量子力学
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所以在量子领域，没有空间，没有时间，所以这是一件非常有趣的事情
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事实上，我可能明年会去德国购买一台更大更好的机器
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我对人们进行过催眠治疗，训练人们进行冥想，然后使用催眠改变人们的一些事情
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但我不再那么做了，因为使用机器对我来说更容易
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我不用，我不用穿衣服，我不用准备任何东西，我只要打开机器就可以了
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好的，他的Facebook链接将在下面的描述中，你可以查看他
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欢迎
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那么，你制作了台北的旅游地图吗？
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是的，我做了，那是一张卡通地图，叫做詹姆斯斯蒂德的台北隐藏宝藏指南
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这是一张卡通地图，很大的一张
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有人在哪里可以找到那张地图？
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你再也找不到它了，它已经消失了，但我卖了很多，我卖了很多
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哇，那将是一个非常好的神器
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是的，很多人都记得，有人试图追捕我，看看我是否还有一个
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所以他们想要它，但恐怕我已经得到了最后一件，而且保存得很好
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也许台湾旅游局可能想要其中一个在某个地方展示
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嗯，当我去的时候，台湾旅游局对我很粗鲁
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我去找他们寻求一些补贴，看看他们是否有兴趣制作它，他们说“哦，我们已经有了地图”
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所以他们不知道我在做什么，他们有点粗鲁，所以我把它交给一家出版公司来做
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Caves books，Caves books很高兴把它从我手里拿下来出版它
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这是一个很好的机会
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旅游局实际上失去了一个很好的机会，因为他们不知道自己在做什么
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50年前的台湾现在怎么样？
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台北很棒，因为它有所有的地铁，所以台北的空气因为地铁系统而变得更好
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以前在台北出去三个小时手这样搓一下就黑了
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你必须清理你的鼻子，因为空气太糟糕了，但现在不是这样了，现在台北的空气其实很好，太好了
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还有一件非常神奇的事情是，习惯了在台湾，作为一个行人，过马路时，你不可能不把自己的生命交到自己手中
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因为司机根本不在乎你，他们几乎会把你碾死
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但现在他们开始停车让人们过马路，即使在高雄，他们也开始至少在主要街道上停车让人们过马路
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这是一个惊人的变化，以前这里的行人都是地球上的狗
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现在行人安全过马路的机会更容易了，这并不是因为道路更大了
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那是因为法律的规定，人们开始意识到这条路上除了汽车之外还有其他人和其他东西。
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我来的时候正值戒严时期，所以没人敢谈政治
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你可以谈论任何事情，你可以赚你想要的所有钱，但你只是远离政治
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但现在每个人都在谈论政治，到处都是政治
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但就像美国一样，政治就是一堆胡言乱语
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这里到处都是谎言，这个团体与那个团体作战，你永远不知道谁说的是真话
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这里和美国有同样的问题，而美国现在本身就是一团糟
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作为一名教育家或从事教育领域的工作，台湾的教育体系与美国相比如何？
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台湾的问题是他们一直坚持 70 年代、80 年代的冰毒教学消耗臭氧层物质
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他们从不改进他们的教学方法，所以它并没有真正改变
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我记得有一次我在一家出版商工作，一家台湾出版图书公司
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然后一家美国出版公司来了，他们有一本古老的旧书，我打赌这是一本 20 世纪 50 年代或 1960 年代的书
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他们说哦，他们有点不好意思问我是否对此感兴趣
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我说当然可以，给我 5,000 本书，但店主对我的表情很糟糕
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对我非常严厉，认为我疯了，竟然订购了这本旧书
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他们来了，一年之内就卖完了，这么快
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店主问我“詹姆斯，你怎么知道那本书会卖得这么好？”
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我说因为老师不学习新方法
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我的教学方法也很特别，因为我是催眠师，所以我有点理解无意识学习
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在台湾，他们说好吧“你需要制定一个课程计划”
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他们说“你真的需要一个课程计划，你必须有一个课程计划”
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当你制定课程计划时，这就是他们的想法有问题
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你心里有一个学生，那个学生知道某些事情，而那个学生不知道其他事情
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所以你为他或她写了一个课程计划，问题是
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台湾的学生有很多不同的水平，你不可能为一个班的四五个不同水平的学生写一个教案
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所以你需要另一种教学方法
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您还有什么话要对台湾人民、对同胞们说吗？
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告诉我的同胞，不，我就这些
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台湾的问题之一是，他们看到美国商人或外国商人来到台湾
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他们的政府或企业出钱让他们住五星级酒店
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所以他们自然而然地认为所有美国游客或外国游客都想要具体的五星级酒店
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所以他们建造的任何东西都是混凝土和五星级酒店，所以不是很有趣而且非常昂贵
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如果他们可以向泰国学习一些东西，泰国有人搭起一个草屋，里面挤满了人
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人们正在排队住在这些草屋里，实际上人们喜欢的东西有点不那么复杂
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所以他们有一些过度开发的地方
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例如，托鲁克峡谷里有一个非常美丽的温泉，名叫文山温泉，这就是它的名字
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过去太棒了，过去你可以去那里，脱掉所有衣服，坐在那里一整天
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而且根本不会有人过来，所以我就喜欢这样
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岛上的绿岛也发生了同样的事情
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他们在海滩上有一个温泉，在海边就有一个温泉从海滩里流出来
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然后他们在它周围放了混凝土，所以它非常好，现在一点也不好了
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所以他们确实破坏了一些东西，他们通过开发破坏了他们的旅游景点
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他们对它的改进如此之大以至于他们摧毁了它
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我是说如果你去垦丁
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我第一次去垦丁的时候，那里有山羊在山上走来走去，还有两只大水牛坐在海边
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这些都是令人惊叹的景色
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非常好，非常美丽，山羊来来回回，还有水牛
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那两只懒惰的水牛在那里呆了很多年，它们呆在那里，然后现在它们当然消失了
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现在一半的海滩是由凯撒宫酒店经营的，非常漂亮
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然后你会看到海滩另一半的当地人，每个人都挤在一起
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所以你现在在海滩上，美丽的地方，有几把遮阳伞，又漂亮又宽敞又干净
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然后这里一片混乱，所以就发生了这样的事
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台湾非常非常美丽，但我认为他们不知道在利用这种美丽时他们在做什么
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他们过度开发非常小的东西
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连垦丁夜市在一两年前都被评为全岛最差的
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它应该是最好的，它应该是非常放松的，这样那样
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但不，交通在起起落落，很拥挤，而且食物价格过高
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所以他们真的毁了它
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好的，非常感谢您抽出时间给我们
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谢谢你，我希望你在台湾过得愉快，我哪儿也不去[笑声]
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that was during the cultural revolution and so according to the Taiwanese, the Chinese had destroyed their culture in the cultural revolution
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and if I really wanted to see the real China, I had to come to Taiwan
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Taiwan is very very beautiful but I don't think they know what they're doing when it comes to making use of that beauty
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my name is James Steed and my Chinese name is Dizhengshi
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and I've been in Taiwan since 1976
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wow
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and that's close to 50 years
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and I came to Taiwan to learn Mandarin Chinese at Donghai University and teach there
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after one year at Donghai, I moved to Taipei where I taught at Taiwan University for six or seven years
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ran a language school there and made a tourist map of Taipei then I moved to Kaoshiung
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going back memory lane from 1976, you came here to learn Chinese
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what's the main reason why you choose to come here to learn Chinese?
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I was working in the International office( international student and faculty Affairs) at my university in the in the United States
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and there I met some people from Taiwan and I really like the people from Taiwan
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and I began to make more and more and more and more friends with them
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they even taught me how to cook some Chinese food there and I started learning Chinese there and then
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it came time for me to graduate and I did not want to go back home
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which is not interesting at all and the only thing people do there is smoke cigarettes and drink
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I want to get away from there so I thought, so I'll go to Taiwan
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so I went to Taiwan because all my friends were in Taiwan anyway, so that's how I ended up here
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what advice would you give to a first time visitor to Taiwan
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I take people out and I don't even think of what to show them anymore because I take everything for granted
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I remember one time my sister came to visit me and I was going to cook dinner that night
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we went to the market and asked my sister "which chicken you like"
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and she said she liked that chicken and it was a live chicken running around
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and when I said that chicken, they grabbed the chicken cut its head off and threw it in this thing that ripped its feathers up
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and my sister was just scream "oh my god! what have you done to the poor chicken she thought it was cute right
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but I didn't even think about it, I just pointed to it and that's how you get a chicken at some places
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but it really freaked my sister out
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so I don't know anymore what is going to affect people or not
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Taiwanese are very friendly and they like to meet new people so it's really kind of easy for people to come here and visit
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I've heard so many people claim that no matter how long you've been here as a foreigner, Taiwanese still sees you as a foreigner
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in your case, how are the Taiwanese seeing you still been here for almost 50 years
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I am Taiwanese
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I gave up my US citizenship
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I have a Taiwan citizenship but they would never consider me Taiwanese at all, yeah they wouldn't consider me Taiwanese at all
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I've been here forever, my Chinese is very good and my entire life I've been here basically, since I was 23 and I'm 72
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so they would never consider me Taiwanese at all
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if you are to change anything in Taiwan what would it be?
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I would like for them to be more more open to foreigners
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they say they're open to foreigners and they say they treat foreigners very well
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the people are very nice to foreigners but officially it's very difficult for foreigners to get things done
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like it's very difficult for them to get bank accounts, to get credit cards or to get the things that other people get very easily
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or to even get a house
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for me I bought a house in Kaoshiung and I didn't even know I could buy a house
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only one of my friends did it because everyone believes foreigners can't buy houses
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I just think Taiwan should officially be more open to foreigners here to be more helpful
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because they're having a population decline here so it would be good if they got an increase in population
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they're not going to start increasing the population themselves so there is opportunity
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that's what I would kind of like to see them do although it doesn't bother me anymore
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because I'm Taiwanese, I don't have any problem now, everything is very easy for me now
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I can do lots of things now that I couldn't do before
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all during the time that I wasn't a Taiwan citizen, I was paying taxes between 25% to 30%
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but I couldn't do anything because I wasn't Taiwanese
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you're paying out all these taxes but you have no rights, that's kind of a mess
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so I think they could change that a little, that's what I think anyway
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what advice would you give to foreigners who wishes to become Taiwanese?
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that's very different
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I mean people think I'm crazy for giving up my US citizenship
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even the American government thinks I'm crazy
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before when I went to AIT, it was very easy, they welcomed me and blah blah blah blah blah
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and now if I go there, "what are you doing here, you need this, you need that to come here" it's very different now
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so you need to think about that carefully
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and the problem is, you've got all of this problems with China and stuff going on
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so my friends said "James, if you're attacked in Taiwan, nobody's going to come save you"
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"you're on your own" so, there will be no helicopter taking me away
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do you have anything to tell foreigners who are worried about this?
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I think everybody knows what's going on there
8:27
Taiwan doesn't want to be ruled by China and China thinks they have the right to rule them because they think Taiwan has always been their property anyway
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however Taiwan has changed
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I came to Taiwan when they were promoting Taiwan as the real China, that was during the cultural revolution right
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and so according to the Taiwanese, the Chinese had destroyed their culture in the cultural revolution
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and if I really wanted to see the real China, I had to come to Taiwan and that's how they promoted themselves
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and the real China was in Taiwan, of course now today everybody's saying we're not China, so there's a big change
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I'm not really fond of America and the way it handles it because America just wants to sell weapons
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and America doesn't fight wars to win them anymore, they only fight Wars to destroy people's economies
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so if this war happened, they would be working to destroy China's economy
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but here we are in Taiwan in the middle of it and i' find that very disturbing that we would have to be caught in the middle of that
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I'm hoping someday there will be some kind of Miracle happens where
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I hope maybe or I wish China would become a little bit more democratic and I wish Taiwan would be a little less fearful than they are you
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because actually the Chinese people in China really like the Taiwanese people, they don't have any beef with the Taiwanese
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it's just the governments, governments, it's all government stuff
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so you came here to learn Chinese, why do you decide to stay this long?
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well I was coming to Taiwan to learn Chinese and I was going to do that for two years
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and then I was going to move to Iran and study Farsi there because I think Farsi is a beautiful language
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and so I thought I might go to Iran to study Farsi but then they had a big political problem with Americans
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Americans going to Iran would be very very dangerous back then and I had two very very good jobs in Taipei so I just stay
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being here this long working here, how is it like working in Taiwan as a foreigner
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everybody's experience is different and for me I've always been very lucky
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now I don't think it's so wonderful, the salaries here have not gone up for teachers in a long long time
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although the Taiwanese think foreigners are making a lot of money teaching English, in fact they're not
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so I don't think that teaching is such a good thing here at the moment and there's not many other things for foreigners to do here but to teach English
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I don't I think it's that great of a place to work for most for most foreigners, it used to be
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now because the population declined so there's not that many students anymore
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plus the students are a lot different now than they used to be, they used to be very hardworking but now they're not and they don't have much of an attention span
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I was making them work very hard and their English went up very fast
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but now no no you're lucky if they will give you 3 hours a week and if you give them any homework about one tenth of them will do it
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that's why I retired a few years early from the University and now I'm an editor, so I edit medical and scientific research
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I also use a machine called the time waiver from Germany that will read the frequencies around you
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everything has a frequency, everything, this table, your words, your thoughts, everything has a frequency
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they have recorded frequencies of over 50,000 people and the frequencies of gemstones, essential oils, every single different mantra, the different angels in the Christian religion
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they've done all of this recording of frequencies and of words and then they read your frequency and match it with the right one
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they call what resonates, so they interpret the information around you by finding the frequencies that you have with matched with
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so it gives you the information around you
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what's interesting about that is, it gives you a pretty deep insight into what's going on around you
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what you know and some of it you don't know and then it can adjust them
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because it's all based on quantum mechanics
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so in the quantum field, there is no space, there is no time, so that's been a very interesting thing
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in fact I'm going to Germany probably next year to buy a bigger and better machine
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I've done hypnotherapy with people, training people for meditation and then changing things about people using hypnosis
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but I don't do that so much anymore because it's it's much easier for me just to use the machine
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I don't I don't have to get dressed, I don't have to prepare anything, I just turn on the machine
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all right, his Facebook link will be in the description below, you can check him out
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welcome
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so, you made a tourist map of Taipei?
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yes I did, it was a cartoon map, it was called James steed's hidden treasure guide of Taipei
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it was a cartoon map a huge one
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where can someone find that map?
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you can't find it anymore, it's gone but I sold a lot of them, I sold a lot of them
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wow that would have been a very good artifact
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yeah, a lot of people remember it, I have had people who tried to hunt me down to see if I have one more
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so they want to have it but I'm afraid I've got the last one and it's very well preserved
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maybe the Taiwan tourism bureau might want to have one of that to display it somewhere
15:46
well the Taiwan tourist bureau was very rude to me when I was making it
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I went to them for some subsidy and to see if they were interested in producing it and they said "oh, we already have a map"
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so they had no idea what I was doing and they were kind of rude and so I gave it to a publishing company to do
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Caves books, Caves books was very happy to take take it off my hands to publish it
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that was a very good opportunity
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the tourist bureau lost a very good opportunity actually because they don't know what they're doing
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how is Taiwan of old 50 years ago to Taiwan of now ?
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Taipei is great because it got all the Subways and so the air got much better in Taipei because of the subway system
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it used to be, you could go out in Taipei three hours and you'd rub your hand like this and it would be black
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you would have to clean out your nose because the air was so bad but now it's not that way, the air is actually very nice in Taipei now, that's great
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and another very amazing thing is, used to in Taiwan you could never as a pedestrian cross the road without putting your life in your hands
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because the drivers cared nothing about you, they would run you over almost
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but now they start stopping for people who want to cross the street and even in Kaoshiung, they're beginning at least on the main streets to stop for people to cross the road
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that is an amazing change, it used to be the pedestrians were the dogs of the earth here
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now the pedestrians have a little bit easier chance crossing the road safely and that's not because the roads are bigger
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that's because of the laws and the people are beginning to get an idea that there are other people and other things on this road besides cars right
18:01
I came during martial law so nobody dared talk about politics then
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you could talk about anything, you can make all the money you want but you just stayed away from politics
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but now everybody is talking about politics, it's politics all over the place
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but just like America, the politics is a bunch of baloney
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it's a bunch of Lies here and lies there, this group fighting that group and you never know who's telling the truth
18:31
it's the same problem here as they have in America and America is a mess right now itself
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being an educator or being in the field of Education, how is education system in Taiwan compared to maybe America?
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the problem with Taiwan is they keep hanging on to 1970s, 1980s teaching methods
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they never improve their teaching methods so it doesn't really change
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I remember one time I was working for a publisher, a Taiwan publishing book company
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and then an American publishing company came and they had this old old old book, I bet it was a 1950s or 1960s book
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they said oh they were kind of embarrassed to ask if I might be interested in it
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I said sure, give me 5,000 of these books and the owner looked terrible at me
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terribly at me and thought I was out of my mind for ordering this old old book
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they came, they were sold out within a year, so fast
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and the owner asked me "James, how did you know that book was going to sell like that
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I said because the teachers don't learn new ways
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and my teaching method also was very special because I'm a hypnotist so I kind of understand unconscious learning
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in Taiwan they say well okay "you need to make a lesson plan"
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they said "you really need a lesson plan for that, you have to have a lesson plan"
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and this is what's wrong with their thinking, when you create a lesson plan
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you have one student in your mind and that student knows certain things and that student doesn't know other things
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so you write a lesson plan for him or her, the problem is
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the Taiwan students are at many many different levels, you cannot write a lesson plan for a class of students of four or five different levels
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so you need another approach to teaching
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do you have anything else to tell Taiwanese people or to tell your fellow countrymen?
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tell my fellow country, no, I that's all I have to say
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one of the problems with Taiwan is, they see American businessmen or foreign businessmen come to Taiwan
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and their government pays or their businesses pay for them to live in five-star hotels
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and so they automatically think that all American tourists or foreign tourists want concrete and five-star hotels right
21:58
so anything they build is concrete and five star hotels and so it's not very interesting and it's very expensive
22:12
if they could learn something from Thailand, Thailand somebody puts up a grass Hut and they're full of people
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the people are lining up to stay in these grass Huts, something a little less sophisticated actually people kind of like
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so they've kind of overdeveloped places
22:35
for example, there was a very beautiful hot spring in Toroko Gorge called Wenshan hot spring that was the name of it
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it used to be fantastic, it used to be you could go there, rip off all your clothes and sit there all day long
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and there would not be someone come by at all, so that's how I liked it
22:59
same thing happened in Green Island ( Ludao ) in the island
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they had a hot spring right in the beach, right by the ocean there was a hot spring coming out of the beach
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then they put concrete all around it, so it was very nice now it's not nice at all
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so they really kind of ruin things, they ruin their tour sites with development
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they improve it so much that they kind of destroy it
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I mean if you go to Kenting
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when I first went to Kenting, there were goats walking up and down the hill there and they had two big water buffalo just sitting there right by the beach
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those are amazing views to see
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and it was very nice and it was very beautiful with the goats walking back and forth and the water buffalos
23:55
those two lazy water buffalo were there for years and years and years, they stayed there and then now they're gone of course
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now half of the beach is operated by the Caesar palace hotel which is very pretty
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and then you see the way the locals on the other half of the beach, everyone packed together
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so here you are at the beach, beautiful place with a few umbrellas and nice and wide and clean
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then over here a mess, so that's what happened
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Taiwan is very very beautiful but I don't think they know what they're doing when it comes to making use of that beauty
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they're overdeveloping very small things
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even the Kending night market was voted the worst on the whole island one or two years ago
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it should have been the best, it should have been very relaxing and this and that
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but no, the traffic is going up and down, it's crowded and the food is overpriced
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so they really kind of destroyed it
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okay, thank you very much for giving us your time
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thank you, I hope you enjoy your stay here in Taiwan, I'm not going anywhere [Laughter]
