^But it just isn’t the same as in Japan.
What an idiot.
While there was a purge of Japanese culture largely because the KMT had just fought a viciously bloody 8 year war which the Japanese started in the Marco Polo Bridge incident in 1937, there wasn’t a real purge of the Japanese population.
The vast majority were repatriated back to Japan of their own accord, not due to being forced to leave.
In fact, due to a severe shortage of key personnel in the areas of local administration, infrastructure maintenance, and law enforcement, the KMT ended up retaining many lower level colonial era Japanese officials for some years after 1945.
What you may be thinking about was the massive purge of Taiwanese elites who strongly identified themselves as Japanese and were educated as such through Japanese schooling from K-university. I’m wondering if this woman is one of them considering I’ve encountered other grad students who strongly identified themselves as “Taiwanese” having similar snobby attitudes towards the lower classes…including other ROC citizens such as the Taiwanese Aborigine population*.
Former ROC President Lee-Teng Hui himself came from one such elite family as his father was a mid-ranking police official under the Japanese regime, he attended and graduated from Kyoto University around the time the war ended, and he and his brother both volunteered** to serve in the Japanese armed forces.
On the last, his brother Lee Teng Chin volunteered in the Imperial Japanese Navy and is interred at the militarist Yasukuni Shrine because he died as a Navy Chief Petty Officer at the Battle of Leyte Gulf and he himself volunteered as an Imperial Japanese Army officer ending his days as a commander of an anti-aircraft crew on the Japanese mainland.
- Underscored by the widespread outrage over former DPP Vice President Annette Lu's statement that Taiwanese Aborigines should be relocated to Central America in the early '00s. Ironically, this is probably one factor in why many Aborigine groups tend to affiliate themselves more with the KMT/Pan-Blue coalition rather than the DPP/Pan-Green coalition.
** Vast majority of Taiwanese who served in the Imperial Japanese armed forces were volunteers, not draftees as the mandatory draft applicable to Taiwanese wasn’t implemented by the Japanese Empire until a little less than a year before the war ended.
may I add that if mochi is what I think it is it is gross. Chacun a son gout. Just a a dumb white person, I guess.
“Those who value philosophy because it is a high calling but disdain plumbing because it is a low calling will soon find that neither their theories not their pipes hold water.”
I can never remember the source, but it seems fitting.
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No one is “white trash.” That is the null set. My father was quite careful to explain to my brother and me that “Honest poverty is no disgrace.” Also, lack of familiarity with authentic Japanese cuisine is no disgrace. I do understand the disappointment of someone who feels that she cannot find the type of food she really likes in her city. But there are many non-insulting ways to express this.
does it shock anyone that Yale has self important,self absorbed , arrogant people working and attending school there?
there was that great you tube video about “why I choose yale” 7-8 years ago…on the updated one they can add screeching girl and the racist professor who writes nasty yelp reviews.
As someone who is white and was raised in a housing project in the South Bronx (although I now live in a wealthy suburb because I was lucky enough to be smart, along with poor), I do take offense to the “white trash” comments this allegedly well-educated and now apparently former Yale employee posted. Had I come across her comments while scrolling through Yelp, I would probably have just mumbled something like, “What a jerk” under my breath and continued scrolling. It is, after all, the Internet.
However, when this woman took it upon herself to surrender her anonymity and share her verbal exploits with her students, whose maturational processes she is supposed to be impacting positively, she lost her right to say what she wanted in a stupid way and became held to a higher standard.
On the positive side, I was unfamiliar with mochi and I researched it and now have found a new food to someday try.
Does it shock anyone that we have folks making sweeping generalizations about an entire university, it’s students, faculty and staff off a few incidents? :)>-
New York Times is reporting that the dean is no longer employed by Yale (i.e., the leave of absence is now permanent):
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/us/yale-dean-yelp-white-trash.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur