- Jun 20 Sun 2010 15:30
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為了自己
- Nov 20 Thu 2008 23:47
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Human Intelligence
- Nov 04 Tue 2008 23:52
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Laugh, while we still can
- Jun 08 Sun 2008 01:00
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The Ballad of Formosans - Music & Culture in Taiwan
Introduction: There’s little, if not none, doubt that culture is the foundation of the identity of any ethnic group. The meaning of the word “culture”, when concerning identity issues, actually includes many elements. For example, language is definitely a very important element of culture. Then there’s food & drink, philosophy towards life…etc. There’s also a very obvious, or audible, element is music.
Especially for we Formosans, the progress of the evolution & development of local popular music style is somehow synchronized with the development and changes of local society and culture. And certainly, with the changes in our culture comes the changes in our identity. That suggests the progress of the construction of our identity may be observed by looking at the changes of what kind of music people on this island listen to.
Yet, we must remember that the idea of “we” was and still is under construction. So we can keep a fairly open mind while examining the facts, the changes in our music, culture and ultimately our identity. Now, if we want to discuss such question, the question about the construction of our own identity, we must first recognize one very important fact. That is we Formosans are a relatively new “group of people” (should we call ourselves as a race?), we can still see the scars of those changes in our society and of course our culture very clearly in modern history. In the past 100 years, we had been strongly influenced by at least two different cultures. First was the Japanese colonization, then, especially in recent years, the invasion of American & Western culture that comes with the unstoppable train of so called Globalization. In these two cases, we can see what happened when this young and still developing culture of ours meets the challenge of such fully grown and dominating cultures - they, the American and Japanese culture steam rolled over our culture, reshaped it and left some permanent marks in our identity.
- Apr 19 Sat 2008 20:15
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負面能量～嗶嗶嗶嗶～
- Dec 09 Sun 2007 05:04
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Friend you said
