Vickie Wang

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Taiwan Is Ready to Defend Democracy. Is Trump?

MundoAméricaMundoAsia, ,

I don’t envy American voters. Your presidential choices have an impact halfway across the planet. Your soldiers fight and die in other countries’ wars. I know you’re tired of feeling you have to fix the world’s problems. But like it or not, this unique privilege and responsibility comes with being a citizen of the greatest country in the world.

So spare a thought for one of these faraway places affected by your vote: my island home, Taiwan.

When I was growing up, we idolized America. I loved the idea of it — the land of opportunity and protector of democracy. I inherited this from my father, who was born in Taiwan in 1950, a year after the Chinese civil war forced his family to flee there from mainland China.…  Seguir leyendo »

Hsieh Ying-xuan, left, and Gingle Wang in “Wave Makers.” Courtesy of Netflix

MundoAsia,

In many ways, Taiwan’s a nice place to live.

We say “thank you” and “excuse me” almost like punctuation. We’re exceedingly polite, except when it comes to traffic and elections. We are passionate democrats and are politically progressive compared with many of our East Asian neighbors: We elected an unmarried, childless woman as president and legalized same-sex marriage. We have laws in place for sexual harassment on campuses and in the workplace. And we’re banning plastic straws.

But somewhere along the way, our niceness became something to be exploited.

Taiwan is now reckoning with our long-delayed #MeToo movement, an experience that has shown us just how far women — even in the most progressive and woke places — still have to go to win and preserve their safety and autonomy.…  Seguir leyendo »