Culture of Taiwan

Hofstede is a Dutch researcher who identified five dimensions of culture to help understand how and why people from various cultures behave the way they do. The five Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity vs. femininity, and time orientation. Taiwan has a high power distance meaning that people blindly obey the orders of their superiors, and strict obedience is found. Taiwan ranked high in uncertainty avoidance meaning that the people do

that globalization threaten or may end nations or nation-states. Scholars should no longer conceptualize globalism and nationalism as conflicting categories (Wang); rather, they should see how globalism and nationalism can coincide within a nation. Taiwan is an example of how national identity is established in the face of globalization. One must examine Taiwanese history in order to understand how their national identity was established during globalization. Since the 1500s, Taiwanese people experienced

Tourism Industry in Taiwan Due Date: December 11th, 2012 Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Overview of Tourism Industry Development History 3 3. Recent Development 4 4. Demand 6 4.1 External demand (inbound tourism) 6 4.2 Domestic travelers (local leisure) 8 4.3 Price elasticity of demand 10 5. Tourism Resources 10 5.1 Five Major Regions 11 5.2 Festival-Based and Event-Based Tours 13 6. Supply 14 6.1 Package tour 14 6.2 Transportation 16 6.3 Accommodation & Hotel Industry 16 6.4 Government

backgrounds and cultures. BenQ Company from Taiwan culture, and Siemens Company from German culture. However, each of these two cultures differs from the other, since in Germany several agencies monitor the managers and workers so the German companies pay full attention for the staff and for their families before themselves. Also, if they dismiss the workers from the job they are looking for another job, these laws and procedures of the German government. Moreover, in contrast to the Taiwan Company BenQ

Cultural Policy in Taiwan Taiwan has its own very special government system. On the central government level (relevant to the federal government), there are both president and premier in the system. The National Assembly is the representation of all citizens to the president, and the Legislative Assembly is to the premier who is in charge of the Executive Yuan, the top administrative body of Taiwan. The current National Assembly is in charge of the change of constitution laws, while the Legislative

student, traveled thousands of miles from Taiwan to the United States and started my doctoral study several years ago. At the beginning of the journey, I thought my sixteen-year educational training with ten-year English learning in Taiwan could help me smoothly adjust to a new academic culture and pursue the doctoral program of Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education in the new culture. However, linguistic and academic cultural differences between Taiwan and the U.S. and other factors complicate

Industrialization was another important way in which the Japanese exercised its imperialism in Taiwan. Before their rule, Taiwan was not very developed in infrastructure hence it was difficult for people to move from one part of the island to the other. Taiwan was seen as a source of raw materials for the industries in Japan as well as an overseas market for its goods and services. The region also provided an important outpost and Confederate defensive position. A network of railroads was constructed

Mythology of the Aboriginal Amis in Taiwan PSYC 131 Yijun Zhang zhang283 Overview In Taiwan, besides people of Han, who are majority the immigration from mainland China, there are nine aboriginal ethnic groups. These tribes have been living in Taiwan long time before a large population of Chinese migrated in the 20th century. Among these nine aboriginal groups, Amis is the largest and the oldest ethnic group in Taiwan (Diaowan, 2005). Just like other group of people who has long-time history, There

Chinese historic culture is partly composed of important traditional festivals. Many of these entertaining folk customs have evolved from primitive roots during the past to become the celebratory occasions we see today. Today happens to be an important day in my culture. Let me introduce the Qingming Festival to you. The fourth or fifth day of April each year is celebrated as Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day. The Qingming Festival, one of China's most important traditional festival

issue or nation so to speak that the United States has been dealing with and is currently dealing with today is Taiwan. Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China, faces several elements implicated by the U.S. foreign policy. The first element of American foreign policy is that the United States only recognizes one China. Whether it’s the China to the left of the Strait or the Taiwan to the right, it is up to both sides. The second element of American foreign policy is that Washington encourages