5 Things No One Tells You About Living In Taiwan 

最喜歡聽 Prozzie 練肖話，但其實他說的每一句都貨真價實，超精準！👍😍👌

1. Many can speak English 2. They love Japan 3. They're very religious 4. They hate the heat 5. Many don't drink (I think they actually do 6. Many don't swim What I learned from living in Taiwan from 1999-2013: 1. They treat foreigners better than Taiwanese, unless you're ugly.... then you're screwed 2. They have a very good sense of humour compared to those of other cultures 3. They travel, both around their country and abroad, more than those of most other cultures 4. They turn into completely different people when they drive, so don't get in their way 5. They are way, way, way more money-conscious (they will budget and count every dollar to the level of cheap) compared to the Chinese

對於台灣四面環海，確不會游泳，Prozzie 説對二個原因，台灣周圍的海域是親潮和黑潮流經的地方，水流急，沙魚多。台灣民間説法，水中有水鬼會抓交替，其實應該是台灣天氣炎熱，若急欲跳入水中容易抽筋痙攣。第三點，最主要沒談到的是國民黨來到台灣，就禁止人民靠近海邊嚴禁出海，海防全由軍人看守。 但現在已經不一樣了，年輕一輩大都會游泳。

真的很深入淺出的解說台灣的文化及民情！👍

我出生在台灣、定居於日本。 您對台灣及日本的人與事都很明白、說的很棒🎉

12:26 Another secret, Taiwan garbage trucks play that music (The Maiden's Prayer, Op. 4 by Badarzewska-Baranowska). When I visited family my mom told me "ice cream truck!" and I believed it as a kid :(

你說對了，身為台灣人覺得比許多亞洲人更重視健康，我去日本總是驚訝他們為何這麼需要喝酒抽煙非常頻繁，我們喝酒大部分是偶爾朋友聚會小喝也不會喝到爛醉或自己在家小酌但不需要天天如此，非常喜歡在台灣生活重視身心靈的健康跟幸福感

You are amazing. You covered almost everything about your subject in one nice motor cycle ride! Very efficient, I’m impressed and I actually enjoyed the awesome ride with you 😂💪

台灣人雖然不是很喜歡喝酒,但是釀酒技術是不錯的

Anecdotally, swimming and beaches are not a huge part of Taiwanese culture could have something to do with that there has been sea ban in different periods of time in Taiwan practiced by local governors.

謝謝你的分析。 我覺得你說的都沒錯👍 希望再聽你分析其他觀點讓更多不太認識台灣的人能更瞭解😉

13:01 The swimming thing. A lot of reasons for that, riptides aren't one of them. Rip currents are very rare here, although they can happen at some of the shallower beaches (mostly in the north). And it wasn't so much a threat from China, but a threat from Taiwan. The military dictatorship forbade swimming in a lot of places for fear that locals might swim out to a Chinese boat, or maybe all the way to China, and defect or give military secrets, etc. So that didn't help. As for the modern era, the west coast beaches are amazing, but polluted, or at least perceived to be polluted (who wants to swim on the white sand beach in front of a plastic factory?) and east coast beaches often have obnoxious shore breaks. North coast beaches tend to be pretty nice. If you look at photos from 50 years ago though, you'll see the beaches full of swimmers. Not just beaches but also places like shimen reservoir, etc. But over time more and more places were closed, and people were dissuaded from swimming. Now swimming is gradually making it's way back into the culture, despite the major public school swimming program being cancelled in 2016. These days if you go to a popular beach, it's only young children swimming, and their parents stand on the side complaining that they didn't learn swimming when they were kids.

The religious part is always surprising to me and I didn’t realize it until I was an adult. My dad’s side of the family is super Christian and my mom’s side is very Buddhist/taiwanese folk religion and it skipped my parents and they’re both atheist (and moved to the US). So I never realized religion was so big over there until my mom would say stuff like “oh your cousin got a name change from the fortune teller to improve his luck in finding a wife”. Also I had no idea the Mazu festival existed until I saw RU-vidrs covering it. A lot of countries in Asia hate Japan except Taiwan haha. I think Taiwan being governed by Japan was shitty but not as shitty as when the KMT were in their dictatorship phase. So people like my grandparents who lived under both rules see Japan rule as ok comparatively. Then the generations after the Japanese left only have the KMT as comparison.

Yes, Taiwanese like Japan so much that Grace, or whoever is doing the subtitle, snuck in a Taiwanese Japanese (chotto matte) in the subtitle when Prozzie was talking about learning Japanese as second language.

台灣人不太會在海邊游泳的原因有很多， 其中一個原因也的確跟中國有關， 當初兩蔣時代， 為了避免中國登陸， 海灘都有做管制， 所以去海邊戲水會受到一些限制， 雖然解嚴後就沒有管制了， 但長久的習慣造成的影響還在。

又來看Prozzie了，廢話不多說趕緊先按個讚

Cool video! Would love to have another list, because I'm sure that list would be super long lol

Loved the video on the bike, even with the muffled video! Would like to see more of the road or the path ahead even if that meant putting the other camera in shot rather than the bike. Perhaps the uncut bike footage could also land on Patreon?

Hi Prozziie, the way you washing your lovely bike seems not good enough. Check some video and find your modify way. In my opinion, Using high presure air gun to move out the water inside the jointer and under the rubber cover, it should help preventing from rusty. Adding chain oil regularly could help the bike maintaining in silence and smooth situation.

台灣的寺廟 野廟 陰廟 哪怕是更小的廟 背後都有其典故＆來源故事 隨便一個都會是拍片的好題材或劇本 😊

台灣是最好的。我全心全意地愛台灣和她的人民

雖然台灣很多人都怕熱，不過我不怕熱，不會游泳主要就是KMT的影響

Good stuff! I'm sure you can come up with another list or 2...

我當兵的時候聽同梯的說過，他們學校游泳課是看課本學的，他們根本沒有游泳池，所以都不會游泳，當然平日消遣也就不會去游泳了

我小孩一個33歲一個27歲在台北市從國小一年級開始體育課就教游泳畢業要通過25公尺的游泳考試.國中畢業為50公尺通過考試學校會給證書.若還不會游泳的同學考到過為止.這是台北市教育局的政策主要是教遇水難時求生技能.且現在社區住宅或社區活動中心裡面都有游泳池了. 對於日語要看阿公阿嬤是不是在日治時期出生受日本教育.我的小孩因為家庭環境要跟祖父母話家常.所以從出生跟阿公阿嬤相處講話時下意識學會日文會跟著講些日文. 台灣現在這麼熱是全球暖化的關係.回想小時候至20幾年前台灣四季分明.冬天真的很冷.夏天最高溫32度大家就哇哇叫了😂 你跟艾倫的YT影片從開始就一直追蹤每支影片都有看.希望你們在台灣的日子能幸福平安❤❤❤

Just came across you channel today. Will visit Taiwan in two weeks for 12 days and I'm so excited about it :) Good to hear the Taiwanese spreak average English in general. My Chinese is not what it used to be. ;)

My husband says that when he was in school, the students would go to the temple to pray for the knowledge to pass a test. After the test then they would return the knowledge to the teacher. 😂

台灣喝酒的人不是不多，只是比較少有像國外酗酒成癮的人。而台灣喝酒的地方就是熱炒、餐廳、小吃店跟KTV。會去酒巴喝的人比較少，所以台灣酒巴店少一點，而外國人剛到台灣要喝酒就想到酒巴反而不好找。

Nice bike, Honda Rebel

loved your video from mexico

The thing about swimming, my dad had a friend who went swimming and got flushed away by the water and died. It would've been outside in the nature somewhere where the government never hadn't up prohibitive barricades in the 70s. I assume he wasn't the first one so I imagine the people there can be weary/just don't have a culture of swimming, unless it's in indoor pools

Very insightful

10:54 They grew up in TW, but are still han DNA. Very different than Filipina or Thai or example. You can see the skin color difference. Many Taiwanese are lighter skinned than white people.

Prozzie: Now on Walkie Talkie!

Prozzie這麼喜歡騎車，要不要拍機車uber看你會載到誰？ 或者誰願意當您的乘客？not only Allan, should be more 😂

我超級討厭夏天.真的太熱又太潮濕了. 另外.我真的就是一個不會喝酒也不會游泳的人. 距離我上次去海邊,應該是20幾年前的事了吧.

A vlog on the Rebel, nice.

0:09 巷弄中，建議車速不要過快，也別單手。 因為你永遠無法預估是否有小朋友或是三寶從旁邊視線被擋住的車輛前方空隙間突然走出來。

認同💕你很了解台灣🫡

U told the truth.

覺得Prozzie的觀察很仔細 台灣雖然很熱 但台灣人從來沒習慣過 夏天沒冷氣活不下去😂

給Prozzieㄧ個大大的讚👍🙋‍♀️

台灣人少游泳主要是民間習俗問題，川短流急戲水危險性高，我小學時幾乎每年都有童伴遇難，不親海一則是國民黨政府有各種海禁的規定，但先民來台過台灣海峡（黑水溝）的風險，也遗留了一定影響。

台灣人少游泳主要是民間習俗問題，川短流急戲水危險性高，我童年時村童每年都有人遇難，不親海一則是國民黨政府有類似海禁的規定，但先民來台過台灣海峡（黑水溝）的風險，也有一定影響。

謝謝你的分享與介紹❤

以前小時候去學游泳的時候聽會游泳的大人說過 如果不是小孩時期 就游習慣 隨著年齡增長後 反而會因為恐懼感 只要被水嗆到 或者不習慣 就會越來越怕游泳(我也是其中一個) 不過也不是每個人都會怕 也有克服恐懼 然後游得很好的 但外國人反而不會因為年齡問題 反而會更勇於去嘗試(當然這只是個人看法) 有一次經驗是我在墾丁浮潛的時候體驗到的 身邊的外國人 跟小時候就會游泳的人 都能潛到一定程度 反而是沒啥經驗的人 可能剛下潛 就會想浮上去回岸上 那怕教練都有教你如何應對@@"

1980年代出生的我，對於"禁止人民靠近海邊嚴禁出海"這件事情完全沒有印象，小時候最開心的就是到台北拜訪親友時，親戚大哥哥帶我去海水浴場玩水。 也許是因為我住在東邊?還是在講這些的人出身金門? 關於游泳這件事，的確有些長輩會基於民俗及安全的觀點而教育小孩不要靠近水邊，但也有很多家長不會這樣，我覺得主要還是環境的關係 河川流速快，加上颱風頻繁的關係，常常會讓河床有很多的岩石，可能因為孔隙形成漩渦，有安全的疑慮 海邊也多是岩岸，同樣有著漩渦及離岸流的安全疑慮，能夠安全戲水的自然環境真的不多 所以想要游泳的人大多只能選擇去游泳池，卻又因為游泳池不夠普及或是收費過高而降低了使用的慾望 我念的小學有游泳池，所以小學時期有游泳課，學校也有教游泳 但我後來也不常去游泳，因為我家這邊的游泳池只有在7-8月學校放暑假時開放，一天只有2小時，單次收費200元 換作是你，願意去使用嗎?

lol I just filmed a video the other day, and I also have a whole portion on the swimming thing 🥲

Did you need to get a new driving license with tests etc. or could you transfer your Canadian one? I'm wondering if I were to move to Taiwan if I had to get a new one. Just applied for their golden visa .. excited to see if it works out.

謝謝！

還有台灣人戴眼鏡的非常多！ 幾乎多數的人都有近視！ 醫師也不例外！ 雖然年輕人可能會戴隱形眼鏡。

The superstitious reasons for many Taiwanese not knowing how to swim are true but also, historically, many young people were just too busy studying-including going to bushibans and the idea of swimming and swimming lessons were seen as superfluous.This has changed considerably and more and more young children now know how to swim or are taking swimming classes and many modern parents now see the safety value in ensuring their child can swim.

I've heard that they have a pretty good surfing community there.

Taiwan has conducted a bilingual nation(which is English)policy since 2017. So the education system be like teaching in English. Although the effect seems not good and academics criticized it but many few decades later you will find taiwan like Singapore

以前不覺得，看了這集後認真回想，才發現台灣很多人不（大）會游泳可能真的跟民間習俗信仰有關。 其實小時候大家都是愛玩水的，俗話說初生之犢不畏虎，即使長輩會一直叮嚀千萬別去溪（海）邊游泳，但小時後還是很多人會結伴去野外玩水， 然後每年尤其暑假，都會看到海（溪）邊溺斃的新聞，與此同時普渡也每年如常的舉辦著，一年兩年⋯，突然間你也變成勸家裡小輩別去野外戲水的大人，即使自己要安排戲水活動，也會刻意避開農曆七月⋯ 說這個倒不是說變成了自己小時候最討厭的人之類的，而是突然發現社會集體的民俗生活習慣，是這樣潛移默化的影響了行為

Is that square on the ground only for scooters or are bikes allowed too? Coz I noticed you weren't going into it.

很棒的話題❤，Prozzie的跨文化觀察總是很有趣又不失深度。可惜標題下得不夠準確，否則可以吸引更多觀眾進來。

Love the moto vlogs. Would be even better with better audio, but i could still understand. Can't you copy the old advchina setup?

真的很多人不會游泳，去玩水也是被告誡不要做的事⋯⋯很危險、有水鬼 等等！然後時不時下雨 溪水暴漲 颱風 什麼的 新聞會大肆報導…所以更加深了不能玩水的印象😅

Hi

I think there are still some other features you may notice. For example, Taiwanese girls don't like to get tanned. They try every possible way to block themselves from the sun. Another thing is that girls prefer white guys over black ones. No offense, it's not about racism, but they think babies are prettier if mixed with white. Taiwanese students value education more than anything else, so you will find students often go to cram school and stay there until 9 o'clock or even 10 o'clock; it's the norm. Lastly, they usually don't value privacy, so they often like to chat or gossip about anything, anywhere, anytime.

關於游泳，除了科學方面說到海流強，還有台灣山高河短雨季分明，所以很多河段其實不太適合戲水，這是科學方面的 然後是文化與歷史方面的 一方面是漢民族本來就不太游泳 二方面是1950年代直到1990年代，台灣都在戒嚴，深怕「共匪」或是「匪諜」偷渡進來台灣 所以幾乎全部的海岸線都是「敏感區」 加上山區可以躲「匪諜」，所以以前山區也是有管制的，很多山區還需要「入山證」才能去 河流也因為諸多原因，所以「禁止戲水」 以前學校沒有教游泳（自少我在當學生期間，學校沒有游泳相關的課程） 家裡不讓孩子玩水（怕溺水） 農曆七月又有「抓交替」的民間傳說 各種原因，讓身為島嶼民族的我們「怕水」，事實上讓我也覺得有點荒謬 就是因為怕溺水，所以才更應該要學好游泳以及自救，不是嗎？

In Taiwan, they say their language is "Mandarin", in the PRC they say theirs is "Chinese". If you look at the U.S. government websites most of them put "mandrine" as a language option.

Beach culture would be good to attract tourists, even if it is not native

prczzie你講出了台灣有很多我們要改進與面臨到的問題，只是台灣的政府與媒體很愛操作輿論帶風向，希望能繼續指出台灣的問題，讓台灣變得更好。

Poe divination's accurate writing is 跋桮, POJ(Pe̍h-ōe-jī) writing is poa̍h-poe. By the way, 跋筊(poa̍h-kiáu) is means gambling. Many Taiwanese's ancestral origins are from Fujian. There is a saying 閩人好巫尚鬼，淫祀惑眾. The rough translation is Fujianese particularly believe in witchcraft. When many Fujianese immigrated to Taiwan, they faced severe challenges, like aboriginal counterattacks (even if the Fujianese also fought each other), miasma plague, malarial mosquitoes, venomous snakes, and government exploitation. Let Taiwanese can only help themselves and pray to gods for protection. (Taiwan's plain also has aboriginal people, called "Pingpu people".) By the way, East Asia did not prohibit same-sex sexual practice in ancient. (although also do not support it.) Fujian in ancient also had one god named Hu Tianbao (Tu'er Shen) to protect same-sex lovers. In ancient Fujian had a custom called 契兄弟, it's a relationship similar to male homosexuality. (Taiwanese Hokkien scolds women who have an affair with other men, often using 討客兄, actually the correct writing is 討契兄.) It is Western Christian culture that opposes same-sex sexual practice. 戲說台灣 (A Traditional Story of Taiwan) has one episode named 兔兒神弄姻緣 are talks about Tu'er Shen. It's also on RU-vid. But this drama ended in heterosexuality......

你可以將台灣民間信仰看做一個政府體係，各司其職，相互幫助連繫，每一個大廟就是一個小型地方政府。

Sloacum da man.

這麼悶熱的夏季,我從小在台灣出生長大,我當然是不會習慣啊。不過跟最近的印度還有中東國家比較,他們的熱,台灣跟他們比,好像有比較好一些些。至於台灣人不愛喝酒這件事....................齁齁齁 有的台灣人愛喝酒,中午就開喝了~~~還且還喝很多呢！只是你沒認識到這愛喝酒的台灣人。 愛喝酒的台灣人,有的會說,酒猶如喉嚨借過，肚子借放(這要用台語說會比較經典)。🤣😅

u should watch "周處除三害" that's how I feel about religions in Taiwan...

Great insight...thanks for sharing. I didn't think the microphone sounded bad at all, considering where you placed it.

That* ass or Bad ass? I'm pretty sure it's the first, just don't really understand why. The kitty?? 🤣🤣🤣

🙂🙂

Why wouldn’t you just do an overdub?

你長的有點像美國球星小牛獨行俠77號東契奇你是不是他兄弟開玩笑的

麥克風應該沒問題，應該是你沒喝的關係

游泳這件事 其實跟勞工問題比較相關 我看西方大都是父母教小孩游泳的 而台灣父母陪小孩的時間很少 大部份都是小孩自已跟同學、鄰居去玩 自然會跟小孩強調哪些地方危險 絕對不能去 一代一代下來 自然台灣人就不會游泳了

酒駕抓得嚴謹 會有很高罰金或要入獄 所以才 會白天少喝酒

關於第一外語，你誤會了，各高中、大學的外語課，日語開班人數永遠是英語的一半。

From personal experience, I find Taiwanese more superstitious than devote religious people. With swimming/beaches, I find many Asian city woman avoid the sun so going to the local beach is not at the top of their recreational list. Also, I find the ratio of swimming pools per capita in Taipei is way lower than what you find in a major North American city. Most cities in the west, u can just walk or take a short drive to the local indoor/outdoor pool and go swimming anytime.

I think another reason for not going to the beach is from your other reason, Taiwanese hate the heat, and sun is so vicious, we will get sun burn in 20 minutes. 😂

身為台灣人 我得說一句不中聽的 我超討厭那些搞宗教的人 動不動就封路搞辦桌，還有超高頻率的咚咚拆(真想知道到底哪來那摸多神明可以每周都有神生日) 擾民的程度跟排氣管猴有得比(只是他們有"宗教"這個大義支持他們的行為)

發現你 停紅綠燈🚦 不會停在機車等待區 為什麼餒？

I'm trying to ram the reasons home why Taiwanese are generally in favor of Japan while Koreans generally adopt an attitude of anti-japanese now that both were once ruled by Japanese. After ww2 South Korea has become an independent country while Taiwan was taken over by Kmt that had given the most important resources and positions to its followers from China and treated local Taiwanese as the second -rate citizens in fact. They had ruled Taiwan with iron fists for the first 40 years. As a result most Taiwanese prefer Japanese ruling to Kmt ruling. The second reason has been the fear of being attacked by China for more than 7 decades and recently they have sent jets and battleships to surround Taiwan trying to strike terror into people in Taiwan. It seems US and Japan are most likely to extend helping hands if Taiwan is forced to defend themselves against the invasion.

遊園北路右轉西屯路一路騎到底⋯⋯ （中間跑去黃昏市場附近洗車）😊😊 今天的路線，我常經過，呵😂😂

死死昏昏去…字幕真台😂

只是是喜歡去日本玩，但不是很愛日本

That audio . . . :(

Taiwanese people don’t know how to swim? And they have superstition …. “water ghost” etc etc? 😂 What kind of Taiwanese have you met? I’m Taiwanese and I’ve NEVER EVER heard of that superstition. As to “don’t know how to swim”? I mean we are no Michael Phelps, but swimming is part of the PE that everyone has to pass, and most schools have swimming pools. Have you ever visited one of those public swimming pools / sports clubs? Swimming classes for kids are always full. What’s true is that beaches are not really the recreational destinations, probably because of the reason you described.

日本文化影響，我想動漫＞影視＝經濟＞＞殖民

By the way, 台灣的佛教徒也非常多！！！！

Taiwan's beaches suck, and the water quality around the island is disgusting.

你一定住在台灣南部

never felt this Taiwanese in my entire life lol

Allen is buying views for his channel. Don't associate with him.

喜歡聽你瞎扯 哈哈 可以多點片子

Looks like yall has lost 20 pounds or more.

Expensive, boring , mediocre cultural output. Essentially the Canada of Asia.

6-Taiwan will reunify with Mainland China in near future.

停在黃網狀線~要小心罰單~~