Hello everyone, this is the first article after a long hiatus.Not that it matters since no one is going to read this, and of those who actually do, not many are going to have the language skills necessary to understand it.
My topic for today is Asian food.However, I will be venturing a bit off the
I do not understand why Taiwanese people love incorporating random English words into their everyday conversations. Don’t get me wrong, mixing languages is perfectly okay but you have to do it the right way. I will be the first to admit that I often mix the English and Chinese in my daily conversations. I would interchange the languages between words but NEVER in the way Taiwanese people do.
For example, what does “好man” mean? If you directly translate that into English, it would mean “very man”. But what does that mean? Can you imagine all English speaking countries start using the phrase “very man” instead of “very manly”, and swapping nouns for adjectives? The world would be in chaos. Not only is the phrase grammatically incorrect, it doesn’t even have any meaning! It’s like saying “oh, that chicken is ‘very chicken’” or “that car is ‘very car’”. Yeah…okay. So whenever I hear people say that, it makes me want to smack them. Why can’s they just say "好manly”?! Is adding a “-ly” that hard? It would not only makes more sense, it would also sound better!
Even if it’s not day to day conversations, Taiwanese singers love adding random English words into their songs. One song I can think of right now is 龍的傳人 sang by Lee Hom. It was a great song until he added the random rap about Taiwanese kids (a girl and a “homeboy” apparently) who couldn’t speak English but had the strength to graduate with honors (very “Asian” thing to do) and borrowed 50 to consummate marriage (hm…not likely in an Asian culture)….and the God was on their side… OKAY, how is that related to the song? Not only is it irrelevant, it's poorly executed, it has cheesy lyrics, and it's rapped by a rich Asian American guy who has a social disconnect to the hip hop movement. Unfortunately, this is not the only song with random sections of English rap.
This is all the examples I can think of right now, this topic shall continued….
--nexo
Like men everywhere, the male population of Taiwan enjoys sports.Basketball is especially popular, and the courts all across Taipei are always packed to the brim.We Asians are not really genetically gifted for basketball, but boy do we try.But there is one thing that I don't really understand.Sports are big but gyms are not.
As a strong proponent for an active lifestyle, I’ve been to
Self taken photos! All the rage these days in Asia and has been for a decent while now. But why is that? Is the culture really so narcissistic that people need to have pictures of themselves all over the place? God, I hope not.
There are amazing things all over the world that are worth
I'm a Taiwanese American and I'm not afraid to admit it. I've spent a fair share of my life on both sides of the Pacific, so I think that I'm as qualified as any to comment on the weird ass culture of my home country. Granted, I've spent most of my adult life in the states and am a survivor of American academia, which in my estimation makes me an incredibly biased passing observer, but so is everyone to some degree right? Regardless, I've decided to throw my two cents into the money jar that is online blogging. Is the topic close to my heart? No. Am I sharing profound insights of any kind? No. But I will be sharing how I see the quirks in my own country and maybe get some feedback in the process.
The reason that my blogging adventure began is because being Taiwanese, I have a certain number of Taiwanese friends. These friends have started to slowly expose me to more Taiwanese pop culture than I normally would seek out on my own. Just to clarify, when I say "seek out", I mean run away from, and when I say "slowly expose", I mean subject me to.
There is a bunch of stuff I just don't get. Don't get me wrong, I really do spend quite a bit of time in Asia. I love Taiwanese food. I speak the language. But I seriously, for the life of me, cannot wrap my head around some of the stuff that's going on in my homeland, and we'll start with this―skinny bitches.
The Taiwanese media has way too much time and money on their hands. For an island of 23 million, there are like 150 indigenous channels and 300 variety shows. The topics of these shows vary but eventually someone will always say something about how skinny someone else is and how enviable it is to be that thin. On websites, people blog about their quests to lose weight. Dieting pills and surefire methods proliferate amongst the masses.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm young, I'm male, and by definition I have an overactive sex drive. I find women incredibly attractive creatures of almost mythical proportions. Needless to say, I enjoy my fair share of eye candy. But ladies, please, please, please realize that there is a thing as too thin and too thin is incredibly unattractive.