PROTEST!!!
This is getting outragous... in Taiwan's Double Ten National Day this year, a designated overseas chinese spoke on behalf of all overseas chinese in the annual STATE ceremony held in front of the Presidential Office. It is an annual tradition that such speaker will speak and I have no objection towards that... BUT... this year, an overseas chinese from Japan was chosen... again, i have nothing against it... what I am protesting is that that speaker made the speech in a DIALECT... hey... and i thought it is a STATE FUNCTION!!! yes... i know that it is a dialect spoke by a lot of taiwanese... but still, even if the president were to speak, he must give a speech in BOTH Mandarine and whichever dialect he wants to... but NO... that speaker spoke in dialect... ok... fine... and here is the best part... SHE CONTINUED HER SPEECH IN JAPANESE!!!! WHAT THE HELL!!! YOU GOT SOME PROBLEM???? YOU FORGOT WHERE YOU ARE NOW??? YOU GOT SOME IDENTITY CRISIS???? YOU ARE ATTENDING THE STATE CEREMONY OF TAIWAN AND REPRESENTING OVERSEAS CHINESE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND YOU FREAKING SPOKE IN JAPANESE??? ok... let us just for a moment try to ignore the fact that the Japanese had occupied Taiwan for ONLY 50 years.. and till now they have not make a really convincing apology for what they did... fine.... but what is THAT SPEAKER'S PROBLEM??? if she is speaking in her own capacity, i have NO PROBLEM with any freaking language she use... but here is a STATE CEREMONY... you FUCKING AH-BIEN want Taiwan to be recognised internationally as a sovereign state... and yet you allow this kind of JACKASS people to use some language other than what is "YOUR SOVEREIGN STATE'S RECOGNISED OFFICIAL LANGUAGE" to make a speech in such occasion.... THIS IS A DISGRACE TO ALL TAIWANESE BOTH IN THE ISLAND AND ABROAD... there are occasions that allow such speakers to make speech in his/her native language... but not here... she is here as a member of the Overseas Chinese Affair Official in Japan, representing, first of all, THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA (which, the last time i check, DOES NOT INCLUDE JAPANESE AS A OFFICIAL GOVERNEMENTAL LANGUAGE!!!!) and secondly, the overseas CHINESE in Japan... and not JAPANESE that look that chinese, DUN SPEAK chinese, and only speak Japanese... which ever way you look at it, it is wrong... if she CANNOT SPEAK CHINESE, then she should not be giving a speech, I DUN GIVE A FLYING FUCK IF THERE IS ANY POLITICAL MOTIVE BEHIND MAKING HER THE SPEAKER.... THIS IS A FUCKING STATE FUNCTION AND I WANT SOME STANDARDS TO BE OBSERVED AND SOME SELF-RESPECT TO BE MAINTAINED WHEN DOING THINGS THAT CONCERNS NOT JUST SOME DUMBASS POLITICIAN OR PARTY.... in case for those of you that still dun get it... I AM PISSED... it dun matter whether you are pro-unification or independent... by making a speech in a non-governmental language in a STATE FUNCTION, she has offended everyone that loves the REPUBLIC OF CHINA and the island we live in call TAIWAN. THIS IS A FORMAL PROTEST THAT I AM MAKING TOWARDS THE ORGANISOR OF THE DOUBLE-TEN NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION IN MY OWN CAPACITY. I DUN GIVE A DAMN IF PEOPLE THINK I AM DUMB OR FOR THE FACT THAT NO ONE IS GOING TO GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT WHAT I SAY HERE. I AS A PROUD CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA HAS BEEN DEEPLY INSULTED BY THIS INCIDENT AND I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION AND APOLOGY FROM ALL PARTIES INVOLVED IN THIS INCIDENT.
P.S. The taiwantank will be now looking for an official way to lodge an complain towards this incident, if you happen to know a way to do this, please email the taiwantank at yll@umich.edu or cool_liu@yahoo.com. Thank You !!!
posted by David at 10/10/2002 02:03:00 PM