Taiwan raps Google over map label
Posted in Reflection | By tarotoast |
Saw this link from the Digg’s RSS Feed:
[Link to Digg's page]
[Link to International Herald Tribune]
It has made its way here. Although pretty sad. Google would rather follow the money flow, because anyhow, it is a company for profit. Not to forget it has made a Google Local for China [Link]. So that is understandable. However, when will someone put an end to this? As a foreign student from Taiwan abroad in the United States, the sense of national identity felt here is stronger than when I was in the country. It is just the nature of human being willing to find a place to call home. When you realize your home is not being recognized through out the world, or even defamed from some extremist, sometime even worse: other people from the same home, all I can say is disappointing, sad, and unbearable.
Nothing major an individual like me can contribute. However, tiniest sound add up to be wave large enough to voice. Hopefully, not far from now, Taiwan will become an independent country.
October 6th, 2005 at 12:40 am
Nice job done!
Taiwan’s status quo is a state, just the same as I am a man.
It has all the necessary elements of being a country, i.e., territory, people, government, and military;
just as I have head, eyes, trunk, limbs, and a woking brain.
You can not denied it.
If Taiwan is part of China, you should go to Beijing for a passport to visit Taiwan. And Taiwanese should pay taxes and perform other duties under the PRC’s Constitution.
Is this a reality?
The reality is Taiwan is a state pending to be recognized internationally.
International recognition per se is NOT a prerequisite of being a state!
October 6th, 2005 at 1:39 am
Nice addition. Thx dad.
September 25th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Of course Taiwan is a country. I never thought of it as anything else! I want to go to Taiwan someday. Everybody says the people there are very powerful, or at least my friends do.