About Cross Country Romance

Due to the technological improvements, I personally think that there has been an increase in the amount of international couples in recent years. In the old days, people barely have connections with foreigners, whereas the boundaries became blurry between nations and nations, also, continents and continents. It is this phenomenon that more new problems we’ve never faced had appeared.

 The problems varied. However, I found it quite interesting when my high school teacher mentioned “Is it acceptable to have a leader who has parents from two nations that are in political tension?” We all know that Taiwan has more than a hundred and thirty thousands of foreign spouses, who are mainly origin from Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, to name a few. It sounds exactly nothing that you might say “Nationalities doesn’t matter, love is more important.” It is no doubt that this is so true, but how about a president that is half-Taiwanese and half-Chinese? Perhaps this is not a problem at all, the president right now is 100% Chinese, but born in British Hong Kong, grown up in Taiwan and studied in the US. Yet, the polls tell the truth.

 As far as my knowledge is concerned, there are no probable solutions to this argument. China always adds pressure to Taiwan, they just need to force 1/1000 of their population to immigrate to our country, then we’ll be dead. Other than that, they’re really good on controlling the economy since they have almost 1/5 of the entire population on earth. There is an old saying, in fact it was about just a year ago: “God bless Taiwan.” 

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What I think "Global Citizenship and Cultural Literacy" means

  In my own opinion, the world had became more like a huge family, that is global village, in the recent years. People of different nations and folks have been trading over the pass thousands of years, however, not until Columbus discovered America had it became more frequently, and that was only about 500 years ago.

  Due to the highly developed technology, the boundaries between countries and continents are not as clear as in the past, As everyone knows, the world had changed, wars are no longer firing only on the battlefields, but could be at anywhere, such as on the Internet. Global citizenship plays important role in this case, it combines various cultures and gather people's faith. Faith of making our earth better and peaceful.

  There are a variety of folks that speak different languages, living in different places and have different values. Everything is unique, it seems to be the only thing we've been sharing together is the scientific name, Homo. So it comes to the problem of dealing the conflicts between two distinct groups. To know the way of communication, to avoid conflicts, and to learn the way to survive in such a big time. Understanding another culture, and knowing how to use the given language fluently is the major part of being a cultural literacy person.

  However, the most important thing is to respect every single culture and every individuals. Doesn't matter which culture were you origin from, there's no discrimination in an ideal global world.

My summer vacation

  I traveled alone all the way down to New Zealand this summer, or maybe it's better to say winter when I flew over the equator to the southern hemisphere.

  As I arrived in Wellington after a long flight, the cold and strong wind smashed on my face. The air was fresh, fresher than the smog and smoke in my hometown.

  I met some new friends as well. Friends from different countries, all over the world. Some of them got lost in their lives, but could still find the way in Wellington, the mapless city. People in this cool capital are friendly that they're willing to help you, I lost my wallet and got it back. I felt like as I was still in Taiwan.

  I visited Weta, where my dream place to work. I went to NZ comicon, which is completely different with CWT (Comic World in Taiwan). Shops closed at around 6 PM, trains will only have one run each hour when it's over 6 o'clock at night. "Is this really a capital city?" I wondered.

  I stayed with my host family, a homosexual couple. What I've learnt from them is "Gender doesn't really matter." I also attended a funeral in the church, which was quite different with Taiwanese funeral. It was a holy and peaceful ceremony. People were sharing about the best memories they had done with the person, memories of joy as well as the sad ones. But all in all, they showed respect and love to the man in the coffin, heaven, I'd like to say

  Time flies faster than an arrow, but slowly went through the tunnel when I was on the cable car, or train, or even bus. Tunnels were everywhere. I love that people honk their horns while they're in the Mt. Victoria tunnel, Honk-honk to say bye-bye to the lady who was murdered and buried inside the tunnel. If I've never been to Wellington myself, I'd never know these stories that brighten this rainy and windy city.

  44 days is way too short to explore a little capital city. Yes, it really is a capital in a cool way. I didn't buy any souvenirs cause things are extremely expensive there. Instead, I made people sign on my flag. This is definitely the best souvenir ever.

  Will there be a trip to New Zealand again? Haven't seen any kiwis yet, why not? Still haven't took the Northern Explorer, not even mentioned to the south island by the Blue Bridge. I enjoy spending my summertime in winter, would be a good idea to spend my wintertime in summer as well!