Apr 30, 2008

heavy protest

Along the case of Korea, or much better than Korea, president election in Taiwan was also resulted as a change of regime. Not yet inaugurated, the new government is regarded as "pro" China while the former one is believed as "con." In other words, ruffly classifying, DPP is pro independence, and KMT is not.

Of course there are so many relating factors and matters to be considered. And I may not know much enough about Taiwan. I just see many people withdrew their support with disappointment. Moreover, many young people are not so much interested in heavy agenda such as independence disregarding what "dependence" really means.

Recently I got to know one Taiwanese singing group. According to my friend, they are more famous abroad than in Taiwan. Whatever, they were active and loud provokers for independence of This country. Actually, that group is a heavy metal band. Their costume looks even death or Gothic.
















This is an image of their T-shirt on sale from their website. I lost the address so far. I'll post it when I find it again. The letters in back side means "reversal." And the second letter is purposely printed in the reverse direction. It should be "轉," but reversed as we see.

The number gives me a big impression. It is the number of vote for DPP in the last election. The difference was around two million, but they see hope from five million.

I don't know what will happen in Taiwan after Beijing Olympic. But I think I know what some people will do in Taiwan. That number may not be important indeed. It is important that they will not surrender as long as they are "proud of" it. Yes.

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