u/SemiAnonymousTeacher

Everyone has their stereotypes, but I came across one today that I didn't expect. It was a pretty highly specific negative stereotype that everyone in the office seemed to agree with, despite it being totally untrue (I won't mention it here because don't want to out myself to my school).

I'm just curious what stereotypes you've come across amongst Taiwanese that surprised you.

我自己是覺得，大家對多元文化的狂熱在 2019 年（剛好疫情前）達到了最高峰。現在感覺大多數台灣人真正能接受、而且喜歡的，好像只剩日本和韓國文化了。 說實在的，看到移工一年比一年多，但對普通台灣人的生活卻幾乎沒什麼影響，感覺滿微妙的——像是主打台灣人口味的印尼或越南餐廳並沒有變多，一般超市裡的東南亞商品也沒變多。反倒是日韓的垃圾食物越來越多，歐美的食品卻漸漸消失了。

最扯的是，我覺得大家對英文的排斥感好像越來越重。像我自己的台灣同事就常說，他們覺得英文根本不該列為必修，因為高達 95% 的學生以後根本用不到。

大家覺得現在台灣對「多元文化」的熱情是怎麼樣的？

I was feeling far more frustrated than fulfilled with social media, so I made the decision to stop using it. I didn't delete any accounts, so friends could still message me to check on me. I made daily updates previously and I stopped using them all in the same day.

It's been 3 months. Not a single person has reached out to me. I'm overseas and I don't have any real friends here, either. It started as an experiment to see if it would help my mental state. It soon became a thing where I wondered how long it would take someone to reach out to me.

It's just a really disheartening thing for me to accept that not a single person seems to notice or care that I am gone.