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台灣已經不再適合外國人了｜台灣人正在摧毀台灣他們不知道自己在做什麼
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我來台灣時，他們正在宣傳台灣是真正的中國
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那是在文化大革命期間，所以根據台灣人的說法，中國人在文化大革命中摧毀了他們的文化，如果我真的想看看真正的中國，我就必須來台灣。台灣非常非常美麗，但我認為他們不知道在利用這種美麗時他們在做什麽。
我的名字是 James Steed，我的中文名字是地政士，我從1976年就一直在台灣，已經接近 50 年了。我來台灣在東海大學學習普通話並在那裏教書。在東海一年後，我搬到了台北，在台灣大學任教了六七年，在那裏開了一所語言學校，製作了台北的旅遊地圖，然後我搬到了高雄。
回到1976年的記憶，你來這裏學習中文，你選擇來這裏學習中文的主要原因是什麽？我在美國大學的國際辦公室（國際學生和教職員工事務）工作，在那裏我遇到了一些台灣人，我真的很喜歡台灣人，我開始和他們交越來越多的朋友，他們甚至教我如何在那裏做一些中國菜，然後我開始在那裏學習中文，快畢業了，我不想回家，這一點也不有趣，人們在那裏唯一做的就是抽煙和喝酒。我想離開那裏所以我想，所以我會去台灣，所以我去了台灣，因為無論如何我所有的朋友都在台灣，所以這就是我來到這裏的原因。
您會給第一次來台灣的遊客什麽建議
我帶人們出去，我什至不再考慮向他們展示什麽，因為我認為一切都是理所當然的
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我記得有一次我姐姐來看我，那天晚上我準備做飯
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我們去了市場，問姐姐“你喜歡哪隻雞”
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她說她喜歡那隻雞，那是一隻到處跑的活雞
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當我說那隻雞時，他們抓起那隻雞，砍下它的頭，然後把它扔進這個東西裏，把它的羽毛撕碎了
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我姐姐隻是尖叫“天啊！你對這隻可憐的雞做了什麽，她認為它很可愛，對嗎？”
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但我根本沒想過，我隻是指著它，這就是在某些地方你可以得到一隻雞的方法
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但這真的嚇壞了我妹妹
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所以我不知道什麽會影響人們或不會影響人們
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台灣人非常友好，他們喜歡結識新朋友，所以人們來這裏參觀真的很容易
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我聽很多人說無論你作為外國人在這裏呆了多久，台灣人仍然將你視為外國人
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就你而言，台灣人如何看待你已經在這裏呆了近 50 年了
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我是台灣人
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我放棄了美國公民身份
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我有台灣國籍，但他們根本不會認為我是台灣人，是的，他們根本不會認為我是台灣人
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我一直在這裏，我的中文非常好，我的一生基本上都在這裏，從我23歲到72歲
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所以他們根本不會認為我是台灣人
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如果你要改變台灣的任何事情，你會改變什麽？
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我希望他們對外國人更加開放
5:33
他們說他們對外國人開放，他們說他們對待外國人很好
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人們對外國人很好，但在官方層麵上，外國人很難把事情做好
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就像他們很難獲得銀行賬戶、信用卡或獲得其他人很容易獲得的東西
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或到前夕買房子
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對我來說，我在高雄買了房子，我什至不知道我可以買房子
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隻有我的一個朋友這麽做了，因為大家都認為外國人不能買房
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我隻是認為台灣應該正式對外國人更加開放，以便提供更多幫助
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因為他們這裏的人口正在減少，所以如果他們的人口增加的話那就太好了
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他們自己不會開始增加人口，所以還有機會
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這就是我希望看到他們做的事情，盡管這不再困擾我了
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因為我是台灣人，所以我現在沒有任何問題，現在一切對我來說都很容易
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我現在可以做很多以前做不到的事情
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在我不是台灣公民期間，我繳納的稅款在25%到30%之間
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但我無能為力，因為我不是台灣人
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你繳納了所有這些稅，但你沒有權利，這有點亂
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所以我認為他們可以稍微改變一下，這就是我的想法
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您對那些想成為台灣人的外國人有什麽建議？
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那是非常不同的
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我的意思是人們認為我放棄美國公民身份是瘋了
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連美國政府都認為我瘋了
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以前我去AIT的時候，很容易，他們歡迎我，等等等等
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現在如果我去那裏，“你在這裏做什麽，你需要這個，你需要那個才能來這裏”現在就很不一樣了
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所以你需要仔細考慮一下
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問題是，中國遇到了所有這些問題以及正在發生的事情
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所以我的朋友們說“詹姆斯，如果你在台灣遭到襲擊，沒有人會來救你”
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“你要靠自己”所以不會有直升機帶我走
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對於對此感到擔憂的外國人，您有什麽要說的嗎？
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我想每個人都知道那裏發生了什麽
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台灣不想被中國統治，中國認為他們有權統治他們，因為他們認為無論如何台灣一直是他們的財產
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然而台灣已經變了
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我來台灣的時候他們正在宣傳台灣是真正的中國，那是在文化大革命時期吧
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所以根據台灣人的說法，中國人在文化大革命中摧毀了他們的文化
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如果我真的想看到真正的中國，我就必須來台灣，他們就是這樣宣傳自己的
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真正的中國在台灣，當然現在每個人都說我們不是中國，所以有一個很大的變化
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我不太喜歡美國及其處理問題的方式，因為美國隻想出售武器
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美國不再為贏得戰爭而打仗，他們隻是為了摧毀人民的經濟而打仗
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所以如果這場戰爭發生，他們就會努力摧毀中國的經濟
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但我們在台灣，正處於這種情況的中間，我發現我們不得不陷入這種情況，這非常令人不安
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我希望有一天會有某種奇跡發生
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我希望也許或者我希望中國能變得更加民主一點，我希望台灣比你們少一點恐懼
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因為實際上中國人真的很喜歡台灣人，他們和台灣人沒有任何矛盾
10:32
這隻是政府，政府，都是政府的事情
10:36
那麽你來這裏是為了學習中文，為什麽你決定停留這麽久呢？
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嗯，我來台灣學習中文，我打算學兩年
10:47
然後我打算搬到伊朗並在那裏學習波斯語，因為我認為波斯語是一門美麗的語言
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所以我想我可能會去伊朗學習波斯語，但後來他們與美國人之間存在很大的政治問題
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那時美國人去伊朗會非常非常危險，而我在台北有兩份非常非常好的工作，所以我就留下來
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在這裏工作這麽久，作為一個外國人在台灣工作怎麽樣？
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每個人的經曆都不同，對我來說我一直很幸運
11:31
現在我覺得沒那麽美妙了，這裏老師的工資已經很久沒有漲了
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雖然台灣人認為外國人教英語賺了很多錢，但事實上他們並沒有
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所以我認為目前在這裏教學並不是一件好事，外國人在這裏除了教英語之外沒有太多其他事情可以做
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我不認為對於大多數外國人來說這是一個很棒的工作場所，它曾經是
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現在因為人口減少所以學生不多了
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再加上現在的學生和以前有很大不同，他們以前很努力，但現在不行，而且注意力不集中
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我讓他們非常努力，他們的英語進步很快
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但現在不不，如果他們每周給你 3 個小時並且你願意的話，你就很幸運了給他們做任何家庭作業，大約十分之一的人會做
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這就是為什麽我提前幾年從大學退休，現在我是一名編輯，所以我編輯醫學和科學研究
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我還使用德國的一台名為 time waiver 的機器，它會讀取你周圍的頻率
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一切都有頻率，一切，這張桌子，你的話語，你的想法，一切都有頻率
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他們記錄了超過 50,000 人的頻率以及寶石、精油、每一個不同的咒語、基督教中不同天使的頻率
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他們已經完成了所有頻率和單詞的記錄，然後他們讀取您的頻率並將其與正確的頻率相匹配
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他們稱之為共鳴，因此他們通過查找與您匹配的頻率來解釋您周圍的信息
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所以它可以為你提供你周圍的信息
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有趣的是，它可以讓你深入了解周圍發生的事情
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你知道什麽，有些你不知道，然後它可以調整它們
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因為這一切都是基於量子力學
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所以在量子領域，沒有空間，沒有時間，所以這是一件非常有趣的事情
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事實上，我可能明年會去德國購買一台更大更好的機器
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我對人們進行過催眠治療，訓練人們進行冥想，然後使用催眠改變人們的一些事情
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但我不再那麽做了，因為使用機器對我來說更容易
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我不用，我不用穿衣服，我不用準備任何東西，我隻要打開機器就可以了
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好的，他的Facebook鏈接將在下麵的描述中，你可以查看他
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歡迎
14:59
那麽，你製作了台北的旅遊地圖嗎？
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是的，我做了，那是一張卡通地圖，叫做詹姆斯斯蒂德的台北隱藏寶藏指南
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這是一張卡通地圖，很大的一張
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有人在哪裏可以找到那張地圖？
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你再也找不到它了，它已經消失了，但我賣了很多，我賣了很多
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哇，那將是一個非常好的神器
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是的，很多人都記得，有人試圖追捕我，看看我是否還有一個
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所以他們想要它，但恐怕我已經得到了最後一件，而且保存得很好
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也許台灣旅遊局可能想要其中一個在某個地方展示
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嗯，當我去的時候，台灣旅遊局對我很粗魯
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我去找他們尋求一些補貼，看看他們是否有興趣製作它，他們說“哦，我們已經有了地圖”
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所以他們不知道我在做什麽，他們有點粗魯，所以我把它交給一家出版公司來做
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Caves books，Caves books很高興把它從我手裏拿下來出版它
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這是一個很好的機會
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旅遊局實際上失去了一個很好的機會，因為他們不知道自己在做什麽
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50年前的台灣現在怎麽樣？
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台北很棒，因為它有所有的地鐵，所以台北的空氣因為地鐵係統而變得更好
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以前在台北出去三個小時手這樣搓一下就黑了
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你必須清理你的鼻子，因為空氣太糟糕了，但現在不是這樣了，現在台北的空氣其實很好，太好了
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還有一件非常神奇的事情是，習慣了在台灣，作為一個行人，過馬路時，你不可能不把自己的生命交到自己手中
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因為司機根本不在乎你，他們幾乎會把你碾死
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但現在他們開始停車讓人們過馬路，即使在高雄，他們也開始至少在主要街道上停車讓人們過馬路
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這是一個驚人的變化，以前這裏的行人都是地球上的狗
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現在行人安全過馬路的機會更容易了，這並不是因為道路更大了
17:50 下午
那是因為法律的規定，人們開始意識到這條路上除了汽車之外還有其他人和其他東西。
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我來的時候正值戒嚴時期，所以沒人敢談政治
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你可以談論任何事情，你可以賺你想要的所有錢，但你隻是遠離政治
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但現在每個人都在談論政治，到處都是政治
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但就像美國一樣，政治就是一堆胡言亂語
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這裏到處都是謊言，這個團體與那個團體作戰，你永遠不知道誰說的是真話
18:31
這裏和美國有同樣的問題，而美國現在本身就是一團糟
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作為一名教育家或從事教育領域的工作，台灣的教育體係與美國相比如何？
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台灣的問題是他們一直堅持 70 年代、80 年代的冰毒教學消耗臭氧層物質
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他們從不改進他們的教學方法，所以它並沒有真正改變
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我記得有一次我在一家出版商工作，一家台灣出版圖書公司
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然後一家美國出版公司來了，他們有一本古老的舊書，我打賭這是一本 20 世紀 50 年代或 1960 年代的書
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他們說哦，他們有點不好意思問我是否對此感興趣
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我說當然可以，給我 5,000 本書，但店主對我的表情很糟糕
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對我非常嚴厲，認為我瘋了，竟然訂購了這本舊書
19:44
他們來了，一年之內就賣完了，這麽快
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店主問我“詹姆斯，你怎麽知道那本書會賣得這麽好？”
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我說因為老師不學習新方法
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我的教學方法也很特別，因為我是催眠師，所以我有點理解無意識學習
20:21
在台灣，他們說好吧“你需要製定一個課程計劃”
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他們說“你真的需要一個課程計劃，你必須有一個課程計劃”
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當你製定課程計劃時，這就是他們的想法有問題
20:41
你心裏有一個學生，那個學生知道某些事情，而那個學生不知道其他事情
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所以你為他或她寫了一個課程計劃，問題是
20:56
台灣的學生有很多不同的水平，你不可能為一個班的四五個不同水平的學生寫一個教案
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所以你需要另一種教學方法
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您還有什麽話要對台灣人民、對同胞們說嗎？
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告訴我的同胞，不，我就這些
21:23
台灣的問題之一是，他們看到美國商人或外國商人來到台灣
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他們的政府或企業出錢讓他們住五星級酒店
21:44
所以他們自然而然地認為所有美國遊客或外國遊客都想要具體的五星級酒店
21:58
所以他們建造的任何東西都是混凝土和五星級酒店，所以不是很有趣而且非常昂貴
22:12
如果他們可以向泰國學習一些東西，泰國有人搭起一個草屋，裏麵擠滿了人
22:20
人們正在排隊住在這些草屋裏，實際上人們喜歡的東西有點不那麽複雜
22:31
所以他們有一些過度開發的地方
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例如，托魯克峽穀裏有一個非常美麗的溫泉，名叫文山溫泉，這就是它的名字
22:45
過去太棒了，過去你可以去那裏，脫掉所有衣服，坐在那裏一整天
22:54
而且根本不會有人過來，所以我就喜歡這樣
22:59
島上的綠島也發生了同樣的事情
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他們在海灘上有一個溫泉，在海邊就有一個溫泉從海灘裏流出來
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然後他們在它周圍放了混凝土，所以它非常好，現在一點也不好了
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所以他們確實破壞了一些東西，他們通過開發破壞了他們的旅遊景點
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他們對它的改進如此之大以至於他們摧毀了它
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我是說如果你去墾丁
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我第一次去墾丁的時候，那裏有山羊在山上走來走去，還有兩隻大水牛坐在海邊
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這些都是令人驚歎的景色
23:48
非常好，非常美麗，山羊來來回回，還有水牛
23:55
那兩隻懶惰的水牛在那裏呆了很多年，它們呆在那裏，然後現在它們當然消失了
24:03
現在一半的海灘是由凱撒宮酒店經營的，非常漂亮
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然後你會看到海灘另一半的當地人，每個人都擠在一起
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所以你現在在海灘上，美麗的地方，有幾把遮陽傘，又漂亮又寬敞又幹淨
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然後這裏一片混亂，所以就發生了這樣的事
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台灣非常非常美麗，但我認為他們不知道在利用這種美麗時他們在做什麽
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他們過度開發非常小的東西
24:43
連墾丁夜市在一兩年前都被評為全島最差的
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它應該是最好的，它應該是非常放鬆的，這樣那樣
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但不，交通在起起落落，很擁擠，而且食物價格過高
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所以他們真的毀了它
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好的，非常感謝您抽出時間給我們
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謝謝你，我希望你在台灣過得愉快，我哪兒也不去[笑聲]
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I came to Taiwan when they were promoting Taiwan as the real China
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that was during the cultural revolution and so according to the Taiwanese, the Chinese had destroyed their culture in the cultural revolution
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and if I really wanted to see the real China, I had to come to Taiwan
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Taiwan is very very beautiful but I don't think they know what they're doing when it comes to making use of that beauty
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my name is James Steed and my Chinese name is Dizhengshi
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and I've been in Taiwan since 1976
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wow
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and that's close to 50 years
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and I came to Taiwan to learn Mandarin Chinese at Donghai University and teach there
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after one year at Donghai, I moved to Taipei where I taught at Taiwan University for six or seven years
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ran a language school there and made a tourist map of Taipei then I moved to Kaoshiung
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going back memory lane from 1976, you came here to learn Chinese
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what's the main reason why you choose to come here to learn Chinese?
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I was working in the International office( international student and faculty Affairs) at my university in the in the United States
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and there I met some people from Taiwan and I really like the people from Taiwan
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and I began to make more and more and more and more friends with them
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they even taught me how to cook some Chinese food there and I started learning Chinese there and then
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it came time for me to graduate and I did not want to go back home
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which is not interesting at all and the only thing people do there is smoke cigarettes and drink
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I want to get away from there so I thought, so I'll go to Taiwan
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so I went to Taiwan because all my friends were in Taiwan anyway, so that's how I ended up here
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what advice would you give to a first time visitor to Taiwan
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I take people out and I don't even think of what to show them anymore because I take everything for granted
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I remember one time my sister came to visit me and I was going to cook dinner that night
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we went to the market and asked my sister "which chicken you like"
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and she said she liked that chicken and it was a live chicken running around
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and when I said that chicken, they grabbed the chicken cut its head off and threw it in this thing that ripped its feathers up
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and my sister was just scream "oh my god! what have you done to the poor chicken she thought it was cute right
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but I didn't even think about it, I just pointed to it and that's how you get a chicken at some places
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but it really freaked my sister out
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so I don't know anymore what is going to affect people or not
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Taiwanese are very friendly and they like to meet new people so it's really kind of easy for people to come here and visit
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I've heard so many people claim that no matter how long you've been here as a foreigner, Taiwanese still sees you as a foreigner
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in your case, how are the Taiwanese seeing you still been here for almost 50 years
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I am Taiwanese
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I gave up my US citizenship
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I have a Taiwan citizenship but they would never consider me Taiwanese at all, yeah they wouldn't consider me Taiwanese at all
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I've been here forever, my Chinese is very good and my entire life I've been here basically, since I was 23 and I'm 72
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so they would never consider me Taiwanese at all
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if you are to change anything in Taiwan what would it be?
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I would like for them to be more more open to foreigners
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they say they're open to foreigners and they say they treat foreigners very well
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the people are very nice to foreigners but officially it's very difficult for foreigners to get things done
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like it's very difficult for them to get bank accounts, to get credit cards or to get the things that other people get very easily
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or to even get a house
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for me I bought a house in Kaoshiung and I didn't even know I could buy a house
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only one of my friends did it because everyone believes foreigners can't buy houses
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I just think Taiwan should officially be more open to foreigners here to be more helpful
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because they're having a population decline here so it would be good if they got an increase in population
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they're not going to start increasing the population themselves so there is opportunity
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that's what I would kind of like to see them do although it doesn't bother me anymore
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because I'm Taiwanese, I don't have any problem now, everything is very easy for me now
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I can do lots of things now that I couldn't do before
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all during the time that I wasn't a Taiwan citizen, I was paying taxes between 25% to 30%
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but I couldn't do anything because I wasn't Taiwanese
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you're paying out all these taxes but you have no rights, that's kind of a mess
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so I think they could change that a little, that's what I think anyway
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what advice would you give to foreigners who wishes to become Taiwanese?
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that's very different
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I mean people think I'm crazy for giving up my US citizenship
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even the American government thinks I'm crazy
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before when I went to AIT, it was very easy, they welcomed me and blah blah blah blah blah
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and now if I go there, "what are you doing here, you need this, you need that to come here" it's very different now
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so you need to think about that carefully
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and the problem is, you've got all of this problems with China and stuff going on
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so my friends said "James, if you're attacked in Taiwan, nobody's going to come save you"
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"you're on your own" so, there will be no helicopter taking me away
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do you have anything to tell foreigners who are worried about this?
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I think everybody knows what's going on there
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Taiwan doesn't want to be ruled by China and China thinks they have the right to rule them because they think Taiwan has always been their property anyway
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however Taiwan has changed
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I came to Taiwan when they were promoting Taiwan as the real China, that was during the cultural revolution right
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and so according to the Taiwanese, the Chinese had destroyed their culture in the cultural revolution
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and if I really wanted to see the real China, I had to come to Taiwan and that's how they promoted themselves
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and the real China was in Taiwan, of course now today everybody's saying we're not China, so there's a big change
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I'm not really fond of America and the way it handles it because America just wants to sell weapons
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and America doesn't fight wars to win them anymore, they only fight Wars to destroy people's economies
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so if this war happened, they would be working to destroy China's economy
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but here we are in Taiwan in the middle of it and i' find that very disturbing that we would have to be caught in the middle of that
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I'm hoping someday there will be some kind of Miracle happens where
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I hope maybe or I wish China would become a little bit more democratic and I wish Taiwan would be a little less fearful than they are you
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because actually the Chinese people in China really like the Taiwanese people, they don't have any beef with the Taiwanese
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it's just the governments, governments, it's all government stuff
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so you came here to learn Chinese, why do you decide to stay this long?
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well I was coming to Taiwan to learn Chinese and I was going to do that for two years
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and then I was going to move to Iran and study Farsi there because I think Farsi is a beautiful language
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and so I thought I might go to Iran to study Farsi but then they had a big political problem with Americans
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Americans going to Iran would be very very dangerous back then and I had two very very good jobs in Taipei so I just stay
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being here this long working here, how is it like working in Taiwan as a foreigner
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everybody's experience is different and for me I've always been very lucky
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now I don't think it's so wonderful, the salaries here have not gone up for teachers in a long long time
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although the Taiwanese think foreigners are making a lot of money teaching English, in fact they're not
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so I don't think that teaching is such a good thing here at the moment and there's not many other things for foreigners to do here but to teach English
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I don't I think it's that great of a place to work for most for most foreigners, it used to be
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now because the population declined so there's not that many students anymore
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plus the students are a lot different now than they used to be, they used to be very hardworking but now they're not and they don't have much of an attention span
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I was making them work very hard and their English went up very fast
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but now no no you're lucky if they will give you 3 hours a week and if you give them any homework about one tenth of them will do it
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that's why I retired a few years early from the University and now I'm an editor, so I edit medical and scientific research
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I also use a machine called the time waiver from Germany that will read the frequencies around you
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everything has a frequency, everything, this table, your words, your thoughts, everything has a frequency
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they have recorded frequencies of over 50,000 people and the frequencies of gemstones, essential oils, every single different mantra, the different angels in the Christian religion
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they've done all of this recording of frequencies and of words and then they read your frequency and match it with the right one
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they call what resonates, so they interpret the information around you by finding the frequencies that you have with matched with
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so it gives you the information around you
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what's interesting about that is, it gives you a pretty deep insight into what's going on around you
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what you know and some of it you don't know and then it can adjust them
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because it's all based on quantum mechanics
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so in the quantum field, there is no space, there is no time, so that's been a very interesting thing
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in fact I'm going to Germany probably next year to buy a bigger and better machine
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I've done hypnotherapy with people, training people for meditation and then changing things about people using hypnosis
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but I don't do that so much anymore because it's it's much easier for me just to use the machine
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I don't I don't have to get dressed, I don't have to prepare anything, I just turn on the machine
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all right, his Facebook link will be in the description below, you can check him out
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welcome
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so, you made a tourist map of Taipei?
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yes I did, it was a cartoon map, it was called James steed's hidden treasure guide of Taipei
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it was a cartoon map a huge one
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where can someone find that map?
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you can't find it anymore, it's gone but I sold a lot of them, I sold a lot of them
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wow that would have been a very good artifact
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yeah, a lot of people remember it, I have had people who tried to hunt me down to see if I have one more
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so they want to have it but I'm afraid I've got the last one and it's very well preserved
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maybe the Taiwan tourism bureau might want to have one of that to display it somewhere
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well the Taiwan tourist bureau was very rude to me when I was making it
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I went to them for some subsidy and to see if they were interested in producing it and they said "oh, we already have a map"
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so they had no idea what I was doing and they were kind of rude and so I gave it to a publishing company to do
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Caves books, Caves books was very happy to take take it off my hands to publish it
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that was a very good opportunity
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the tourist bureau lost a very good opportunity actually because they don't know what they're doing
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how is Taiwan of old 50 years ago to Taiwan of now ?
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Taipei is great because it got all the Subways and so the air got much better in Taipei because of the subway system
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it used to be, you could go out in Taipei three hours and you'd rub your hand like this and it would be black
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you would have to clean out your nose because the air was so bad but now it's not that way, the air is actually very nice in Taipei now, that's great
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and another very amazing thing is, used to in Taiwan you could never as a pedestrian cross the road without putting your life in your hands
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because the drivers cared nothing about you, they would run you over almost
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but now they start stopping for people who want to cross the street and even in Kaoshiung, they're beginning at least on the main streets to stop for people to cross the road
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that is an amazing change, it used to be the pedestrians were the dogs of the earth here
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now the pedestrians have a little bit easier chance crossing the road safely and that's not because the roads are bigger
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that's because of the laws and the people are beginning to get an idea that there are other people and other things on this road besides cars right
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I came during martial law so nobody dared talk about politics then
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you could talk about anything, you can make all the money you want but you just stayed away from politics
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but now everybody is talking about politics, it's politics all over the place
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but just like America, the politics is a bunch of baloney
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it's a bunch of Lies here and lies there, this group fighting that group and you never know who's telling the truth
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it's the same problem here as they have in America and America is a mess right now itself
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being an educator or being in the field of Education, how is education system in Taiwan compared to maybe America?
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the problem with Taiwan is they keep hanging on to 1970s, 1980s teaching methods
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they never improve their teaching methods so it doesn't really change
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I remember one time I was working for a publisher, a Taiwan publishing book company
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and then an American publishing company came and they had this old old old book, I bet it was a 1950s or 1960s book
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they said oh they were kind of embarrassed to ask if I might be interested in it
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I said sure, give me 5,000 of these books and the owner looked terrible at me
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terribly at me and thought I was out of my mind for ordering this old old book
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they came, they were sold out within a year, so fast
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and the owner asked me "James, how did you know that book was going to sell like that
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I said because the teachers don't learn new ways
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and my teaching method also was very special because I'm a hypnotist so I kind of understand unconscious learning
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in Taiwan they say well okay "you need to make a lesson plan"
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they said "you really need a lesson plan for that, you have to have a lesson plan"
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and this is what's wrong with their thinking, when you create a lesson plan
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you have one student in your mind and that student knows certain things and that student doesn't know other things
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so you write a lesson plan for him or her, the problem is
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the Taiwan students are at many many different levels, you cannot write a lesson plan for a class of students of four or five different levels
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so you need another approach to teaching
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do you have anything else to tell Taiwanese people or to tell your fellow countrymen?
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tell my fellow country, no, I that's all I have to say
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one of the problems with Taiwan is, they see American businessmen or foreign businessmen come to Taiwan
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and their government pays or their businesses pay for them to live in five-star hotels
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and so they automatically think that all American tourists or foreign tourists want concrete and five-star hotels right
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so anything they build is concrete and five star hotels and so it's not very interesting and it's very expensive
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if they could learn something from Thailand, Thailand somebody puts up a grass Hut and they're full of people
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the people are lining up to stay in these grass Huts, something a little less sophisticated actually people kind of like
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so they've kind of overdeveloped places
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for example, there was a very beautiful hot spring in Toroko Gorge called Wenshan hot spring that was the name of it
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it used to be fantastic, it used to be you could go there, rip off all your clothes and sit there all day long
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and there would not be someone come by at all, so that's how I liked it
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same thing happened in Green Island ( Ludao ) in the island
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they had a hot spring right in the beach, right by the ocean there was a hot spring coming out of the beach
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then they put concrete all around it, so it was very nice now it's not nice at all
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so they really kind of ruin things, they ruin their tour sites with development
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they improve it so much that they kind of destroy it
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I mean if you go to Kenting
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when I first went to Kenting, there were goats walking up and down the hill there and they had two big water buffalo just sitting there right by the beach
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those are amazing views to see
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and it was very nice and it was very beautiful with the goats walking back and forth and the water buffalos
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those two lazy water buffalo were there for years and years and years, they stayed there and then now they're gone of course
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now half of the beach is operated by the Caesar palace hotel which is very pretty
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and then you see the way the locals on the other half of the beach, everyone packed together
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so here you are at the beach, beautiful place with a few umbrellas and nice and wide and clean
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then over here a mess, so that's what happened
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Taiwan is very very beautiful but I don't think they know what they're doing when it comes to making use of that beauty
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they're overdeveloping very small things
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even the Kending night market was voted the worst on the whole island one or two years ago
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it should have been the best, it should have been very relaxing and this and that
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but no, the traffic is going up and down, it's crowded and the food is overpriced
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so they really kind of destroyed it
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okay, thank you very much for giving us your time
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thank you, I hope you enjoy your stay here in Taiwan, I'm not going anywhere [Laughter]
