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Hiya lovely people.

I haven't written anything on my blog since  I am back to Taiwan at the end of November. I don't really have any excuse of it really, but honestly I simply don't know what to write.

I wanted to write things "meaningful", trying to make every post of mine less shallow. However, this makes me stressful and not writing. So, in stead of thinking too much about what I should do, I will actually just write more. No to get attention on the internet, but simply to leave a track while living my life so I can see what I have done when I am 75 or something.

Anyway.

Yesterday, Taiwan has its first female president. I am happy.

There were A LOT happening in Taiwan these couple days. Like the 16 year-old Taiwanese girl apologised because she waved our flag and stuff.  It was outrageous on the internet, everyone was literally mad about it. so was I. I believe that people have seen enough news and opinion about it.

What I want to say is, I am not the sort of person who changes Facebook picture claiming I am proud of being Taiwanese. I am not the sort of person who attacks other people when they have different thoughts than mine.

And wait just there before you throw a stone at me or say I am a traitor. The reason that I don't do such things is because I don't need to justify that I am Taiwanese. I bloody am. I AM Taiwanese. I don't need to say I am proud because, of course, I AM proud.

I feel equally connected with the word Taiwan and R.O.C. This two things are the same thing for me. There are people saying R.O.C. is a scheme or it is under China's ruling, I don't agree. I don't agree with people saying R.O.C is P.R.O.C. We are Taiwanese because Chinese people are something totally different than people who live in Taiwan. We are still in the history of having a civil war technically. You can call us R.O.C, you can call us Taiwan. We call ourselves Taiwan and Taiwanese a lot more because it's what we are after separating decades, almost 100 years, with the mainland. It's like the Roman empire is now Italy. It's like you call English people British, but you call Scottish people Scottish for clarity.

My grandfather came to Taiwan because of the WW2, and my mother is never Chinese, she is Taiwanese, so am I. And that doesn't mean I don't recognise R.O.C. To me, they stand for the same, independent country. If we are voting to stick the name Taiwan as the only name of the country or changing the flag or changing the constitution, I will be like 'oh fuck yeah, why not.'  It's just like New Zealand is changing their flag.

There is no one country using different passports, waving different flags, having different leaders. (And by the way, we VOTE for a leader.) Taiwan is the only Chinese speaking democracy.

Taiwan deserves it recognition. 

No matter who you vote for, no matter which party you vote for, no matter what you think, everyone in Taiwan knows we are independent for 100% sure.

I respect every opinion expressed. And that I can say I am proud of being a part of democracy.

Thanks for your reading x.

Giselle x


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哈溜大家好~~
我11月回台灣之後，到現在都還沒寫什麼文章，一方面是因為我必須在回英國之前填補這段空的時間。

一方面是有時候我寫文章的時候，太注重要寫什麼，深度啦，文筆啦等等的。

之前在雜誌社工作的時候，很常被老闆說沒有小編的語氣，我想這就是我需要審視的最大的問題了吧，比起小編的語氣，我更想找出一個自己寫作的風個，一個恰到好處，不會太浮誇，也不需要太難懂文字。所以我現在決定，與其每天都在想自己該怎麼做，該怎麼寫，不如就寫一些生活中的小事，讓自己放鬆，這樣我老了的時候還可以看看自己年輕的時候在想什麼，哈哈。

今天就是要來分享一下總統大選。

昨天，台灣有了第一位女總統。 我很高興。

這幾天，媒體上真的吵得沒完沒了，我想，許多事情已經有了太多意見，關於周子瑜的事情，就可以跳過去不說了。

其實我想說的是，我不是那種會在臉書上換封面照片說自己是台灣人的那種個性。(另一方面，我覺得那句話的英文有個小小的文法錯誤。) 我也不是會跟朋友，或是家人爭論想法的那種個性。

好，我知道現在很多人打算要罵我叛國了，等我一下。
我的意思是: 老娘比誰都清楚自己是台灣人，我不需要證明我是，因為我他媽的就是。

抱歉這句比較粗魯一點。

對我來說，台灣跟中華民國是一樣的。我知道有些人覺得中華民國根本不存在，我認為是存在的，如果不存在，那麼也代表否定了過去幾十年的時光。 而我認為過去幾十年的時光正式我們與中國不同且令人留戀令人深愛的地方。在這個基準點上我認為：台灣就是台灣，中華民國也是台灣。我不認為中華民國跟中國是一樣的，就是因為我們不一樣，所以我們才是台灣。 就像以前的羅馬帝國是現在的義大利；隨著歷史的發展，隨著將近100年的分開，我們就是台灣。

我外公是四川人，14歲的時候被騙去打仗，二戰結束之後，住在台灣，我媽也是台灣人啊，而我也是。為什麼就是有些人，硬要用外省人這種比較貶低的字眼形容他們呢?

如果明天有個公投，大家來換國旗，來換名字，來修憲法，說我們要去掉所有跟中國有關的字眼；好哇，來啊。 如果我們可以的話。但是不管怎麼樣，中華民國不是中國。

台灣的自由，台灣的熱情，台灣的選舉，我們有的，中國沒有。這麼淺顯易懂的分別，有什麼好爭吵，互相攻擊的呢? 如果你真的覺得為身為一個台灣人驕傲，請拿出民主的素質，尊重他人的想法。我真的受夠太多在社群網站上面，為了罵而罵，為了刺激腦內啡而罵。

有素質且懂得尊重不同的聲音才是成熟的民主。

這世界上，沒有一個國家，用兩本護照，兩種國旗，兩個領導人，而且我們還是自己選來的。

台灣值得被認同 (抱歉，我想不到一個更好的句子形容這句話)

不論今天你投給誰，不論今天你認為台灣的獨立性只有透過台獨的管道才能被承認，甚至你認為台灣應該被統一，我都尊重你的想法。因為我尊重你的想法，所以我可以說我以身為一個民主人而驕傲。

台灣的每一個人，都很清楚明白完全的知道，我們是個獨立且不被干涉的國家。

P.S. 我很不喜歡台灣的許多媒體會用網民的回應或是想法稱之為民意，進而寫成新聞。至少我很少在BBC上面看到這種事情。越看越覺得怎麼可以品質低劣到這個程度。


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