Teaching English in Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Black Women Abroad
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Teaching English in Taiwan 🇹🇼 w/ Brittany Edwards | Black Women Abroad
Brittany taught English in Taiwan as a Fulbright Scholarship winner. What was life like being Black in Taiwan? How did she enjoy teaching English abroad?
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0:00 About Brittany
6:00 Taiwan: An Underrated Paradise
9:53 Being Black in Taiwan
17:20 Not Speaking Taiwanese
24:11 Teaching in Taiwan
28:10 Being Black in Taiwan pt. 2
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I was in China right after they opened it to tourist. People were still calling it Red China. I was in a rural area, no television, hotels, etc. They were rice farmers. Had never seen a black person. They looked at me as if I was a space alien. Lots of fear and shock. Considering that China had been closed off from the rest of the world and this was a rural area, I figured that it was possible they had never seen a black person.
Some had fear in their eyes, but no aggressions. It didn’t bother me. I’d been in Europe and had similar experiences. It was the 70s and 80s and black people weren’t traveling as they are today.
Thank you for talking openly about your experience being a black person in Taiwan. I've witnessed and heard stories, and I find that nobody want's to talk the negative side of Taiwan.
It's ssoooo hard to focus on the negatives, because so much of life there as a black American feels almost like a dream world. but just like everything in life, there is sugar AND spice and everything's not nice 😣
I love Taiwan! Taipei is the Capital of Taiwan is very modernized, safe and very open and also have more black people and Digital Nomads. Taiwan also have a female President which makes Taiwan more progressive. The Taiwanese people are a mixture of Chinese and Taiwanese people. They have the best Cafe's and Markets and Taipei used to have the tallest Building in the World called "Building 101" but now Saudi Arabia has the Tallest building. From my experience Taiwanese people are more open and friendly than Chinese people. Many Taiwanese people are originally Chinese people who hundreds of years ago migrated to Taiwan. So they have a complicated history with China. I have Taiwanese student and they are so open to share their history.
I love that you created this video as a black girl currently aspiring to teach abroad its so nice to hear the experiences of people I can relate to! Its kind of scary thinking about living abroad by myself especially as a POC so this is so inspiring and encouraging ( makes me think I can do it too!)
awww 🥺sometimes in life we have to find the courage to do the things we're most afraid of-- I hope you'll take the leap! You never know where it may lead you... 🌻
Love seeing fellow Black women Fulbrighters!!
ME TOO! Where was your Fulbright?
@@BRITTANYEDWARDS Malaysia!
This was so insightful. And LOL at the part about being asked in South Africa what is your father tongue 😂 New subbie. So, so grateful you did this, Stephanie. And Brittany, I just bought your book and have read the first two pages and we're already best friends because you write so poetically 🥺😂
😩🤧 this comment made my day, THAAANNKKK YOUUUUU 🥺
I've been traveling to Taiwan, central parts more specifically, on short business trips about once or twice a year until this pandemic changed everything.
I have to say that they have done much better than we have in just about everything that matters to me. It's a wonderful country and I highly recommend it to everyone.
I love that Taiwan sounds to be as near and dear to your heart as it is to mine-- they are really on a next level with e v e r y t h i n g (except apparently their infrastructure to facilitate water, not sure if you know of the drought situation over there right nnow)
@@BRITTANYEDWARDS, yeah I have seen news about the impact of the draught on the global high tech industry since I am in this business myself. Based on my research, Taiwan actually has built ninety five reservoirs as well as a number of subterranean river water collection stations. But unlike the continental US, with slow slopes and wide water basins, the problem with Taiwan's terrain is its steepness which brings torrential rain waters that are strong enough to break larger dams. So most Taiwanese dams are small and are easily filled up with washed down soil. But they have been dredging their reservoirs yearly to keep the capacity roughly constant.
Lugang is an old town in central Taiwan and used to be one of the three biggest towns in Taiwan during 18th century but never a capital in Taiwan. Today it has a population of approximately 100 thousand people and probably is more exciting and bustling than your imagination during the daytime. Many temples, old buildings and alleys were only renovated a bit and remain similar to they were 2 centuries ago. People interested in history or cultures like to visit this town and shuttle back and forth among those old stuffs.
The county where Lugang is located in is called Chunghua with the population of 1.28 million.
Another great informational session. Thank you. Taiwan is now on my list.
Great video!
Thanks Thelsuice! 💗
I really want to go back to Taiwan I have had the most amazing time there and I’ve been trying to go back for the past 3 years 😭 but money and work a 9-5 keeping from that
I just about cry every time I see how much a flight there costs 😭but just like you, I can't WAIT to get back there
Thank you
When your picture is being taken, have you ever mirrored the behavior and take their picture or touch them?
I HAVE done this. lol They get so confused. 😆
Yes 😭 but my favorite is good cold hard stare into the depths of their eyes. They abort mission so quickly 🤣
@@BRITTANYEDWARDS Hahaha I'm currently dealing with this right now. It's amazing when you see another woman of color in the area.
@@Rissa_Cayetano giiiirrrrlllllll it feels like discovering your long lost twin sister or something 😩😂 (and my heart goes out to you right now, because it's not a cute situation)
Thank you for doing this I'm interested in teaching in Taiwan.
You're welcome Ja'da! 💗
oh my gosh, please go! Taiwan is such a beautiful place
Hi - don't all mobile phones have a language translator app? 🤗
Great discussion! It's great to see three people openly discussing their experiences. It's surprising to hear about a shopping language barrier. I imagine every shop in the World would be able to help you without any spoken numbers, just written numbers which we all use. Put them on paper or any electronic device. My Taiwanese wife found 35 years old as the cut-off for good Mandarin a little shocking. Considering the switch from Japanese to Chinese rule and the change in elementary school education, she said 75 year olds or older may blank on Mandarin. Taiwanese is still spoken by 70% of the population, but I could see 200 years from now the percentage being much lower. Also Lukang, population 87,000, doesn't seem like a place where the parents of Brittany's students would mainly be farmers. Concerning the history of the World and the history of farming, 87,000 farmers living that close together doesn't make any sense. Perhaps we could get a little more info on the parents of her students? Thanks.
Thanks for joining into the conversation ☺️ the language shopping barrier extends beyond numbers and into this phenomenon I call "skin deafness" basically I've (and many other foreigners) experienced that once someone see's you're not a local, they just assume they can't understand you and stop listening. It creates a really frustrating environment. Especially when you're asking for or about a specific item. As for the language "cut off" is *quite* a loose approximate and it's *definitely* not for complete blanking on the language. I experienced that from my older neighbors around 75 years old, but in some parts closer towards the middle of the island, I noticed that Mandarin is not always their go-to and is not the language they're most naturally communicating in (taking that mostly from a market I frequented in Lukang). Speaking of Lukang, yes! It's an urban township, however my school was just across in the rural township Fuxing. So the population comes in around 47,000 spread out over 19.31 mi squared. Does that align more with historical farming practices?
@@BRITTANYEDWARDSGreat answer! Sounds like your school was near some fields. I speak Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and some Spanish. Although a rare experience, I once got the "skin deafness" and proceeded not to give up. I was about 30. She was a shop owner about 50 years old. I spoke slowly and loudly, and I finally got her to listen to me. I asked her why she blanked on me like that. She said she thought it wasn't Chinese that I was speaking. So you do have the option of going ballistic on them: just like scolding a child. In the end, maybe you helped someone mature a bit. Of course, they are human and could be tired from sitting in that shop all day. I think it is all about developing relationships: once you've made a friend with a shopkeeper how happy they will be to see you coming back anytime. We were all smiles once she started speaking with me.
It’s crazy these days (2021), people still point at us like we are a surprise… Ugh😑 . I’m still going to travel 🧭!!!
Most Taiwanese speak in Mandarin and Taiwanese. You can speak in English in City, or there is no problem if you do not speak in Mandarin. However, it is better to understand a little in Mandarin or Taiwanese to communicate with your students and parents as a teacher. People respect teachers in Taiwan's society. The best teaching English job in Taiwan is working in a public school.
There are many benefits, including winter break for one month with Lunar New Year, two months summer break, and www.officeholidays.com/countries/taiwan/2021.
Teaching English in Taiwan is living cost less, safe, affordable health insurance, and convenient.
You can find teaching English in a public school in counties or townships easy than in the city.
If someone touches me they get touched back!
Taiwanese are Chinese by race, their ancestors are from the south of mainland China. Mostly Fujian. Taiwanese is just a dialect that orginated from South China dialects. Aboriginal Taiwanese are minorities. Most people in Taiwan, over 97 percent are Han Chinese
taiwan is the true china, they maintained their old ways and it wasn't destroyed due to the ccp. so excited to go there
Thank you for this excellent interview. I was 20, in 1962, when I took my first vacation for 2 weeks to Mexico., and fell
in love with the beauty of Acapulco. I speak Spanish as a second language, and I traveled working a job, supporting myself, and being generous to non beggars.
I did marry at 27 and 31, and deal breakers destroyed the marriages, but I stayed friends with both husbands. I retired at 58, and again at 69. I hung with the locals, whereever I traveled in the world. Acapulco and Singapore were my favorite. I will not talk about the evil i encountered, but I was raise how to deal with everyone. I am now in my 79th year, and enjoying the virtual travel, and being educated, until I die on all subjects and genres.
I have donated my body, and family will open the door, and give away free all my stuff. I have kept written, audio, and recorded
journals since age 15 to the present. I always give away to non beggars.
Rents and utilities take up most of my retirement income, and I know I can live in a foreign country much cheaper. I pay $1300-$1500 per month for everything.
How much is the cost for cremation in Mexico, and do they have body donations?
Keep up the excellent job.
I have a 41 years yound daughter teaching around the world, currently in Bali.
Life has been excellent for me, and I have tried to pay it forward. I may have to return to Acapulco, earthquakes and all, when my retirement income cannot pay these greedy rents and utilities, but I pray I just die here, because moving is a mess. I always kept my home, when I live in Acapulco, Singapore, and Bali. I have visited all 50 states, and Las Vegas,Kalispell, Montana, and Rapid City, South Dakota were my favorites. Sadly I had to leave my birth city of Chicago, and the world knows why, but it is dangerous everywhere, until God removes the demons. Allah u Akbar. God is great.
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