W15

Comparison and Contrast

Taiwan and China

A. language B. thought c. custom and tradition

A lot of Chinese think Taiwanese are part of Chinese. Correctly, some of our ancestors were from China, but it was the past thing. In the new generation, we are educated by a different government from China. Therefore, I don’t think we are same. Since last semester, I have been living with exchange students from China, so I can feel we are different from each other. Even we speak the same language-Chinese. However, we still have communication problem. For instance, they always uses some terms that we don’t understand such as “牛" instead of "厲害" or speak the dialect we never heard. Furthermore, I think they are more brave than Taiwanese to express their thought whatever in the class or in the daily life. Their custom and tradition is also different from us, sometimes we have federal public holidays, they have about seven consecutive holidays for labors, but we don’t have. From three points, we can know that we are really different.