Comments on: Expat Chat: Being Black in Taiwan

By: Elliott

Elliott — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:31:17 +0000

Very encouraging. I’m an African-American student at the University of Incaranate Word wanting to study abroad in Taiwan. This past semester here in the states I had a few Taiwanese classmates in a Mandarin Chinese class. Very cool people, I am excited about my future trip!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:16:06 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I had my doubts about trying out Taiwan because it was so small, but i feel more confident about going now. I have lived in Japan and Korea. I am an African American Male and I was thinking about teaching English In Taiwan next. Thanks for the info and im really glad that I found this post.

By: Andrea Yue

Andrea Yue — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:19:50 +0000

Dear Fr. Andre,

I agree to all penned down by you. Personally, I feel that the majority of Taiwanese people have very limited knowledge about the world with exception of America, Japan and some southeast countries. I am of Chinese origin but born and brought up in India. When I meet a Taiwanese, always they have failed on guessing my nationality. Because of my appearance they either think I am a Korean or Japanese but when they come to know that I hail from India…the first question that they bring up is…HOW, why am I so white, Indians are dark skin? I would then have to educate them that India is a big country and people from each region does not look the same (east, west, south & north)well, for me it is slightly complicated.

To end with…good wishes to you and keep spreading LOVE.