Not sure if this has been posted before as this is from almost a year
ago. But I'm sure the results still stand.....

Highlights are at the bottom, but just a few interesting points for
myself, and sparse side comments in []

(1)
"In terms of the four Asian countries Taiwan, China, Japan, and South
Korea, the general public in the five countries (Japan, US, UK, France,
Germany) surveyed has, on the whole, a better impression of Japan,
followed by Taiwan and South Korea, while their impression of China is
the least favorable."

(2a)
"Except for Japan's general public, most of the general public and
opinion leaders of the five nations consider Taiwan to be
technologically developed" [haha, guess Japan must be very developed
for it to say this!]

(2b)
"Aside from Japan and Germany, the majority of opinion leaders and the
general public in the other three countries believe "innovative" and
"efficient" are fitting descriptions of Taiwanese people."

RichAsianKid wrote:

It seems that people in Japan also have the most favorable impression
of Taiwan, followed by Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and,
increasingly, South Korea (especially among Japan's youths who seem to
gobble up contemporary South Korean movie actors and actresses and
singers).
It also seems that people in Japan do not trust China nor Russia. The
country that almost all Japanese fear is withdout doubt, North Korea.

area51watch@aol.com wrote:

Hey, RetardedAK, did you present your article of "39%% of Chinese
college graduates could not find a job" to this Taiwanese friend of
yours?

RichAsianKid wrote:

You mean this story?
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2006-08/15/content_664943.htm
--------------Story attached ------------
Is university worth it?
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-08-15 09:11

With the job market tightening and college enrolment expanding, over a
third of young Chinese say their college study experience was not as
rewarding as they had expected, according to a newspaper survey.

The survey, published in yesterday's China Youth Daily, showed that
34.7 per cent of the 8,777 respondents said they regretted their
university experience as what they had learnt was not worth the time
and money invested.

"Sometimes I feel I have wasted the money my parents earned by the
sweat of their brows by entering university. I can't make a living from
what I learnt, let alone repay my parents," said a university graduate
surnamed Zhao, quoted by the paper.

After graduating from Beijing Agricultural University, Zhao took a job
as a security guard with a monthly salary of 800 yuan (US$100).

If you only hang out with your TI comrades, of course, no Taiwanese
wants unification. But if you go out of your TI ghetto and talk to KMT
supporters, you will find majority of them support One-China Principle
and eventual unification. And not to mention 1.5 million Taiwanese now
live, work, study in mainland China. And chance for your TI is very
slim although you can dream of it.

RichAsianKid wrote:

abianchen@my-deja.com wrote:

(snip)
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Nowadays he's reduced to scraping the bottom of the barrel for
materials to produce cheap, low quality fart bombs. They tend to
explode in his hands, stinking him all over instead of his target.

Wakalukong

abianchen@my-deja.com wrote:

This post is just for you, after your long absence.

Ghetto? Poor mainland Chinese look more ghetto to me than richer
Taiwanese!

Secessionist sentiment is popping up all over the world. History
suggests that diversity be it ethnic, religious, or linguistic - or
even there is nothing significant but a group of people only perceives...

Nah, send your post to the White House to see if *your* GW Bush will
change mind and support your TI. Hey, you never know, Bush may write a
follow-up to this NG. Other than that, we are fine with status quo and
glad the economic tie with mainland China getting stronger each year.

RichAsianKid wrote:

Just *imagine* this for a moment. Taiwan becomes a separate country.
Will you be indifferent? Because I am (unlike my friends who are very
much for TI). I bet however, that you'd say that you'd very very much
like to live to see Taiwan and China united with your own eyes - the
status quo is only a compromise. You want to see the two together
united, sooner rather than later. Is RAK far from the truth?

So here's the question: what do you think of Mongolia? If you can have
it your way now (just for fun), do you want Mongolia to be re-united
with China? Is 1921 a bad year for China in your opinion?

abianchen@my-deja.com wrote: