Finding Momentum

So for my Inter­na­tional Media class (MC160) I’ve cho­sen a semes­ter focus on the Tai­wanese blo­gos­phere. It some­what excites me, because these blog­gers give a slightly dif­fer­ent pulse on the Tai­wanese peo­ple in a way that I’m told is unrep­re­sented in the main­stream media. I want to read about frus­tra­tions and sim­ple joys, dis­si­dence and pol­i­tics, pop cul­ture and resis­tance to the West. I want to know of every­day life in my people.

It pretty much intim­i­dates me as well. Hey all you Taiwanese-Americans, tell me you have a frag­mented iden­tity. Tell me you don’t always know if you’re “green” or “blue”. Tell me that you turn blind eyes to what goes on back “home” because, well, you find fol­low­ing the news drain­ing. Tell me you don’t quite have a firm stance on any sov­er­eignty issues. Cuz I hope I’m not the only one. In many ways, this project is about redis­cov­er­ing iden­tity, relearn­ing his­tory and tap­ping into deep wells.

Here, I’m going to post any­thing inter­est­ing from my research as the semes­ter goes on. We’ll see how it goes.

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