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This is one of this ranting posts that go all over the place, so I'm not really sure where I should go with it. Kids are getting weak, i know. Pete Hegseth says this. Xi Jinping says this. So I guess you're in good company. "The military uses Indigenous"....you mean they speak English? Perhaps you're confusing this with the 1994 rewriting of the ROC Constitution that originally used the characters 山胞. You mention the official registering of same-sex marriage that began in 2019. But major Taiwan companies have been offering benefits to any couple that was legally married anywhere in the world perhaps starting in the mid-2000s. Like many things here, it took the government decades to catch up to standard corporate practices. Being a Canadian, I can understand why an American in Taiwan would find concern about low cost healthcare to be controversial. But you have an option that I don't have of moving back to the USA and buying private health insurance.

I'm going to guess the real core of this post is those kids who have issue with Taiwan-Israel relations. Now I'm hardly sympathetic to those 10 or 20 kids you're talking about protesting this Palestine thing. But most Taiwanese kids don't even know where Israel is on a map. It's just not an issue here. Connecting it to anything that goes on with Taiwanese people is strange. You understand that I'm personally involved in a different version of Taiwan youth than the people you talk about here. If you want to come down to my club and see who hangs out at a place like that, you're more than welcome. They may have plushie dolls hanging on their bags, but no one speaks English and no one cares about Palestine. But I have to warn you that showing up there carries its own health risks that will make you grateful for the easy access to medical you get here.

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