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6/5/2023 2:07:43 AM
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I dare you
To tell me something interesting about yourself. Not your hobbies or special interests, not the kind of music you like or your favorite color. Something interesting about YOU. An experience. An accident. A moment where your worldview was turned upside down. Whatever it is, it has to be interesting.
I tire of checking Offtopic to see more posts about your favorite Star Wars show. I’ve been here long enough to watch your creative abilities peak and plummet. I remember having [i]fun[/i] with the people I spoke to. You can’t tell me a hundred posts about another bungie game is real entertainment to you. I don’t care about the opinions of tweenagers. I don’t care if your mom just bought you your favorite fast food. It doesn’t matter if this album spoke to you. I want to read something worth reading. If you can’t do that, you don’t get out enough. You could even lie, but none of you are good liars.
Your responses will be rated. I miss being here.
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This is gonna take a bit of backstory. My wife has an "uncle". He's not biologically related but was really close with her actual uncle who died young and has always been considered family until a recent falling out that's neither here nor there. He used to invite us to join his family every Chinese New Year. Anyway, to the story. One year there was this guy who'd recently returned to Taiwan (where I live now) from the US. Knowing I was American we got to talking and over time it got me thinking. This guy was born and grew up here in Taiwan but moved to the US in his 20's where he lived for over 40 years. He was in the US when we landed on the moon and when Woodstock happened. He could vividly remember the fall of the Berlin wall and 9/11, two things I too lived through but the former was too young to understand the significance. I moved to Taiwan in 2006 but this guy continued to live there after I had left. And it occured to me... which of us was more "American"? [b] [/b] Yeas later, a new question has emerged. I moved to Taiwan when I was 22 and now have lived in Taiwan longer than the vast majority of my students, or even many of my friends and co-workers' children. I have first-hand memories of events in Taiwanese history that they don't such as when Taiwan the arrest of a former president, the sunflower movement, or when Taiwan became the first Asian nation to legalize gay marriage. On top of that, I have family here. It may not be the culture I was born into but it's one in which I've been engrained for nearly half my life. And sometimes that gets me thinking... If that guy was more "American" than me (or equally as American), does that make me more (or equally) "Taiwanese" than many of my students?
