Saturday, March 19, 2016
Taichung "Touch Me Party"? No one invited me :(
台中一間夜店舉辦「Touch me party摸摸派對」，入場男女只要貼上不同顏色的識別貼紙，就可以任人摸、任人親，一名女公關在臉書PO出相關資訊，立刻吸引網友討論轉貼，卻也因此引 起警方關切，16日晚間進行大規模臨檢，業者雖然喊冤表示活動沒有違法，但因造成社會觀感不佳，最後決定不辦了。
這間夜店原訂於18日晚間舉辦「Touch me party摸摸派對」，一名女公關在臉書發文表示，貼上藍色貼紙表示男生可以摸，紅色貼紙表示女生可以摸，貼上嘴唇貼紙則可以親吻，而且女生穿洋裝短裙，整晚只需要100元。
業者藉此攬客，吸引不少網友討論轉貼文章，由於貼文上不只有文字訊息，還附上之前辦活動拍下的揉奶、摸臀的照片，被認為可能涉及《刑法》散布猥褻物品罪。
網友的討論也觸動警方敏感神經，於16日晚間派出30、40名員警進行大規模臨檢，不過業者喊冤表示沒有違法、猥褻，類似活動每個月都會辦一次，但宣傳方式造成社會觀感不佳，最後決定取消活動並撤下廣告。
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
台灣有隱性種族歧視
26 十一月 , 2015
一則台灣人飆罵外國人的新聞上了國際版面，也讓外媒點出了台灣隱性種族歧視的問題，許多人看到這樣的評論，紛紛感到震驚，許多人跳出來澄清，這只是少部分人的行為，台灣最美的風景是人，我們絕對沒有甚麼種族歧視。但我們仔細觀察卻不難發現，台灣人的種族歧視埋在骨子裡，嘴巴不說，可身體卻誠實的一直在做，沒人敢說、也沒人願意承認。
甚麼是種族歧視？甚麼是隱性種族歧視？
甚麼是種族歧視？甚麼是隱性種族歧視？
China Telescope to Displace 9,000 Villagers in Hunt for Extraterrestrials
BEIJING — More than 9,000 Chinese villagers are leaving their homes to make way for aliens.
It
is not a colonization plan from outer space. The Chinese government is
relocating thousands of villagers to complete construction by September
of the world’s biggest radio telescope, whose intended purpose is to
detect signs of extraterrestrial life.
The
telescope would be 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, in diameter, by far the
largest of its kind in the world. It is called FAST, for
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, and costs an estimated
1.2 billion renminbi, or $184 million.
The mass relocation was announced
on Tuesday in a report by Xinhua, the state news agency. The report
said officials were relocating 2,029 families, a total of 9,110 people,
living within a three-mile radius of the telescope in the area of
Pingtang and Luodian Counties in the southwestern province of Guizhou.
Monday, February 8, 2016
Collapsed Building Reinforced With Used Cooking Oil Cannisters: image
Pictures of
the apartment complex destroyed in the Taiwan earthquake on Saturday
show that its walls appear to have been built using empty cooking oil
cans. {ACTUALLY it clearly says "Kansai Paint" on the cans}
Rescuers
are racing against time to save more than 125 people stuck beneath the
rubble of the block of flats in Tainan, Taiwan after a powerful
earthquake struck the southern part of the island on Saturday.
The
death toll for the 6.4 magnitude earthquake has now reached 24, with 22
of the victims found in the toppled Tainan building including a
ten-day-old girl and two other children.
While
Tainan's government says the building had obtained its construction
permit legally, images show large rectangular, commercial cans of
cooking-oil packed inside wall cavities exposed by the damage,
apparently having been used as building material.
Abuse of foreigner on Taipei MRT reflects social problems: scholars
The verbal abuse came to light on Nov. 11 after a British man, who identified himself as Christopher Raymond Hall, uploaded a video of the incident onto his YouTube channel. In the video recorded by his girlfriend, the apparent abuser, later identified as a 30-year-old who worked for a security firm, was shown calling Hall a "scrounger," "trash" and "a piece of crap" and his girlfriend a "whore" and "Taiwanese trash" for dating a Westerner.
The video has since been viewed over 1.6 million times on YouTube and attracted media reports, which prompted police to find and question the Taiwanese man and hand him over to prosecutors on charges of public insult, which is punishable with a fine of no more than NT$9,000 (US$274).
Lan Pei-chia (藍佩嘉), a sociology professor at National Taiwan University, said it is hard to comment on this specific incident because the public knows little about the abuser on the MRT, but added that she believes the most important thing right now is not to launch a witch-hunt after the abuser because "he is not an isolated case."
"If a Caucasian man from the West, who enjoys a privileged position in Taiwan, can encounter such a thing, what about someone from a Southeast Asian country or other countries who is in a structurally disadvantaged position in Taiwan, and who struggles with the double disadvantage of class and race? What would his situation be like?" said Lan.
"We may also have to ask ourselves, 'why didn't the other people on the MRT train do anything? Why are we indifferent toward such racial discrimination?'" Lan told CNA in a telephone interview Friday.
Although hesitant to comment on the case, Lan said one of the likely reasons causing the extreme hatred as witnessed in the video is the Taiwanese man's feeling of inferiority in front of the British man.
The Taiwanese man was quoted by local media saying Thursday that he yelled at Hall because they bumped into each other on the MRT train, and Hall had shown him a poor attitude.
In Hall's account in the video, he said the couple boarded the train at MRT Da-an Station and sat down as soon as there were free seats. They moved away after realizing that the man was staring at them, but he followed them to the next carriage and began insulting them, according to Hall.
Lee I-ching (李怡青), a psychology professor from the National Chengchi University, said as Taiwan's society becomes more racially diverse, some Taiwanese people may not be accustomed to the change and may vent their anger and frustration over their own lives at a foreigner, believing that the foreigner "is here to rob them of their jobs or resources."
The fact that the abuser targeted the Taiwanese girlfriend of Hall may show the man's prejudice against what he perceived as the girl's xenophilia, Lee said.
The feeling that Taiwanese girls have been "snatched away" by foreign men originated from nationalist discourses, which view the female body as an important "boundary marker" for the nation, Lan said.
Lee said the outburst of the Taiwanese man is not necessarily a response to what the foreigner said or did, but a reflection of his own discontent in his work and life.
"It is possible that he had a bad day at work, was scolded by his boss and missed his ride home. Many things could have gone awry before he met the foreigner, when his emotions erupted," Lee said.
Lee said she believes that the Taiwanese public's reactions would not have been as strong as they were -- with many people taking to the Internet to strongly condemn the abuser, saying he has "brought shame on all Taiwanese"-- if the victim was not Caucasian, but someone from Southeast Asia.
"It is because it happened to a white person that it became news. If this happened to a person from Southeast Asia, it might not become news because it happens quite often...some people who differentiate between races may wonder, 'how could this happen to a white person?" she said.
The fact that there was a vivid video footage, and that the victim appeared to be a civil and polite person, may have also contributed to the outrage, Lee added.
The viral video has generated much discussion on social media, with many foreigners jumping to the defense of Taiwan, saying such treatment of foreigners is not common in a country that is often touted for its hospitality and friendliness.
"A terrible experience, but thankfully a minority response to foreigners in Taiwan," wrote Facebook user Mark Bell.
(By Christie Chen)
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