為什麼沒有人在乎台灣？台灣人在乎嗎？Why The World Doesn't Care About Taiwan! (And Why They Should!)

nobody in the world cares about Taiwan and in this video I'll explain my theory as to why I think that's the case and I'll also give you my opinion as to why I think the Taiwanese people here don't care the people don't [Music] care now don't get me wrong Taiwan is actually very important to the rest of the world and I'll get into the details of why a little bit later on but just like something we need that has always been there for us we take it for granted until it's [Music] gone a perfect example of how we take things for granted in life would be how we all live with our parents when we're younger then as young adults we move out into the real world and we suddenly realize how much our parents actually did for us to keep us wellfed safe and happy I'll I'm pretty sure that if Taiwan suddenly disappeared or or ceased to be a nation for some strange reason that the rest of the world would certainly notice feel the effects of that and will have wished that they' taken a little bit more care of this little island nation so how do I know that none of the rest of the world actually cares about Taiwan well to be honest the only evidence I really have is my YouTube statistics that show over 90% of My Views coming from within Taiwan itself and I'm pretty sure that the other 10% split up amongst many countries around the world are actually Taiwanese expats that miss their home country and just want to see what I'm sharing so that they can connect back to their motherland and if you compare that to some other YouTube channels from around Asia channels such as laai 86 Korean Englishman abroad in Japan you'll notice a much higher interest in their channels and content from International viewers and you don't even have to look at their Channel analytics you can just take a look at their comment section where the majority of comments are coming in English or even other International languages from around the world and if you take a look at my Channel's comment section you'll see the majority of comments are written in Chinese from within Taiwan or as I mentioned from other Taiwanese people watching from around the world and that's all because as I said earlier in the video generally speaking foreigners outside of Taiwan just don't care about what's going on in this country unless it directly affects them and that was true for me too before I came to Taiwan I had no idea about the going on or the politics or the history of this beautiful country until I needed to until it affected me my ex-wife couldn't get a visa for the UK I couldn't get a visa for South Africa we did some research on countries we could move to and Taiwan came up as the best option after that I took an interest and started to care about Taiwan and the same goes for my family no idea about Taiwan until their son their brother their uncle moved here and now they take an interest in Taiwan take an interest in the food and the culture and hopefully they watch one of my videos or two occasionally so here's my theory as to why people don't care about Taiwan and instead they choose to focus on the more fun countries countries such as Thailand for example with its beach parties ancient culture maybe and definitely let's say it's a liberal manner in which it allows its foreign residents and tourists to live Japan of course attracts lots of international attention it's delicious food anime to some people and let's be honest it's amazing porn well let's just say it's very high quality adult entertainment industry and as well as its generally weird quirky lifestyle that appeals to foreigners just because it's so different and therefore attracts millions of tourists to Japan every year and of course we can't talk about Asian countries garnering worldwide attention without mentioning Korea yes the world certainly cares about Korea especially since they a huge pop culture explosion over the past 10 or 20 years where Korean movies have won Oscars Korean dramas are all over International streaming services and of course K-pop is a literal worldwide sensation causing lots of people to show an interest care about the country and want to go visit and then of course you've got the other Asian countries such as Cambodia Lao and Vietnam which cater to a different type of Foreigner that wants a bit more adventure maybe The Backpacker type so those countries that depend on the tourist income provide specific hosts backpacking trails and activities that Garners more worldwide attention that Taiwan just doesn't do Taiwan just doesn't have the same level of fun cultural exports as these other Asian countries that I've mentioned that would cause the world to focus on us or indeed as I'm talking about in this video to care about Taiwan but we do have one export maybe not so fun or So Glamorous or interesting as some of the other Asian countries but it is much more important to the rest of the world but before we get into that important Taiwanese export I quickly want to discuss a point that I mentioned at the start of the video about the fact that Taiwanese people generally don't care that the world doesn't care well Taiwan is definitely a very f family focused country and of course every country is but I really feel that Taiwan is more family focused than any other country I've ever been to or know about and they really just want to focus on making sure they have enough money to keep their families safe wellfed happy and well prepared for the future and what's the best way that a country as a whole can prepare itself and future proof itself financially export yes have a natural resource a commodity or produce something that the rest of the world wants to buy and wants to buy lots of is the way to Financial Freedom for the country as a whole and while bubble milk tea is one of taiwan's more popular cultural exports it certainly doesn't come up to scratch when it comes to talking about microchips and semiconductors yes I think it's not a stretch to say that after air water food and sleep semiconductors and microchips are in as much demand as oil and other such important Commodities around the world and Taiwan produces more than any other country by far and I won't get into the production and the importance of semiconductors to the rest of the world in this video there are literally thousands of other much better produced videos online talking about Taiwanese semiconductor industry but let's just say it brings in trillions of Taiwanese dollars every year not to mention the amounts of people that are employed by the semiconductor industry last figure I read was a million people that's one in 20 people in the country probably one in 10 of the employable workforce are employed by the semiconductor industry so if it were to disappear that would be not only huge for Taiwan but also catastrophic for the rest of the world so therefore you maybe can start to understand why Taiwanese people don't care the Taiwanese pop music is not popular Taiwanese movies are not popular around the world and in general Taiwan isn't a focus for World attention because it would take a whole lot of record sales a whole lot of movie tickets or indeed a whole lot of exported bubble milk tea to be able to start to replace the importance of the semiconductor industry has on Taiwan as long as the amazing Taiwanese export Market keeps flourishing and keeps money pouring into the country keeps the country Rich keeps the GDP as higher it is then it's going to make sure that the average to family has enough money to keep their family safe comfortable happy and prepared for the future having said this however the average Taiwanese person does care about taiwan's lack of identity and recognition on the world stage and that's something I've gotten into in other videos before and is probably not so relevant for the reasons that I'm talking about today but what is a relevant point or relevant question seeing that this channel is life in Taiwan would be to ask how does this fact that the rest of the world don't care about Taiwan how does it affect my life in Taiwan well a quite selfish point would be the fact that a lack of interest from other foreign countries keeps foreigners away from Taiwan and therefore keeps prices in the country lower in general cheaper not cheap I don't want you to think Taiwan is a cheap country but yes there certainly isn't that price hike that you see in certain tourist areas or tourist cities so is a permanent resident living here as a de facto Taiwanese person I get to enjoy all the benefits of life in Taiwan offers me without the increased prices that you may find in some other CI again let me emphasize I'm not saying Taiwan is a cheap country just that it's cheaper than a lot of other Asian tourist hotspot cities around the continent and while we're on the topic of money another benefit to me of the fact that the rest of the world doesn't Focus care or pay lot of attention to Taiwan is related to the points I mentioned earlier about the country being a huge export country and that keeps taxes incredibly low 5% sales tax compared to 20% sales tax on everything you buy in the UK and income tax I struggle to believe it but last year without going into too much personal information my yearly income tax bill was lower than 1 month that my sister and her husband paid with full-time decent jobs back in the UK but it's not just Financial incentives that mean a lot to me here as a person that chose Taiwan to live in when other people are ignoring it or not caring about it living in Taiwan gives me a huge sense of Pride that I chose the alternative country the country that isn't so glitzy and glamorous the country that isn't so popular on the world stage I get to live as a real Taiwanese person I get to live a non-tourist lifestyle just as Taiwanese people would do yes my isn't here yes I'm a foreigner yes I'm a YouTuber But ultimately I get to appreciate Taiwan from the view of a Taiwanese person and that's not because it's Japan or Soul or Bangkok it's just humble Taiwan oh my God emotional but I'm not the only person that chose Taiwan you may know a good friend of mine used to live in China where it was much more adventurous much more famous much more of a global country let's see what Pro's got to say about why he thinks the world doesn't care about Taiwan I'm back on the channel how does it affect your life here that people don't care about Taiwan as much as they do about other people for me as a YouTuber it's hard to get a more views I think from abroad because people don't care I used to live in China and I made videos there oh and it was almost too easy to get views because everyone's eyes are on China people want to know about China they're curious about it whether they demonize it and think it's evil or whether they find the culture really interesting because it's kind of hard to get an inside view of what China is like but when I moved here the only people I can get to watch these videos are Taiwanese people which I'm fine with but I do find that the interest from abroad has gone down quite a bit because Taiwan just isn't really on the international stage as much as maybe other countries in the area are one of the things that Taiwan does have quite a lot of our pop stars there are a lot of Mandarin singers that are Taiwanese oh yeah haven't mentioned that yet but they don't get to say that they're Taiwanese they don't really get to promote that idea because a lot of the money that they make is from China I don't know if you're going to talk about China at all but China has a way bigger population a lot more money to spend so if you're from Taiwan you're probably going to keep that on the DD we talked about this on the Allen Andi podcast which you can check out if you click the link below some Taiwanese people that I talk to feel like their country doesn't have the history they haven't had enough time in the cultural oven so to speak to grow something for them to hold on to and call their own and feel special so I feel like when people say that they're Taiwanese what they mean is that they're not Chinese and it's very difficult for them to describe what they are although it is easy for them to describe what they aren't and so I think that maybe with some time Taiwan will have more of its own cultural characteristics that can make people feel a little bit more proud to be Taiwanese if people can get to know Taiwan more for all the right reasons like its cultural exports its music it's art it's food whatever and that solves a lot of taiwan's other issues with China because I think that China maybe will learn to respect taiwan's identity a little bit more if the rest of the world is looking at Taiwan with admiration rather than uh maybe pity pity yeah I was just about to say that yeah very fair point but probably way too complex and deep for us to get into yeah yeah yeah well that's the video thanks for watching thanks to proy for coming along and giving his input but uh Time to Say Goodbye so as f as always I'll see you next time in my life in peace bye-bye byebye okay good yeah nice up [Music] uh no wait where was I going there yeah Korea Asian uh uh oh

Channel: lifeintaiwan

Views: 167,023

Keywords: taiwan, china, world, un, care about taiwan, 台灣, 台灣生活, allan, 艾倫, 英國人

Id: 316DCCn-C28

Length: 13min 50sec (830 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 01 2023