[問卦] 美國爸爸忘記說的一件事

先來一段原文並說自己評論
美國爸爸居然沒說跟女生約會的天然優勢，太不及格了，這點才是最重要的，好嗎？
Rich immigrants (they’ll sometimes call themselves “expats”, a word white
people invented to separate ourselves from brown immigrants) show up in a
sovereign country, don’t speak the local language and don’t bother to learn
it, refuse to change even one iota of their behavior to match the local
culture, and then complain that they have a bad time. Like, leaving the
ethics aside, from a purely pragmatic perspective, what did you expect?
Honestly, the leeway we get here is remarkable. White immigrant English
teachers make a bit more than their non-white American colleagues, and far
more than their Taiwanese ones. Cops often don’t bother to ticket us,
remarkably letting our lack of Mandarin be an advantage (can you imagine whatan American cop would do if he pulled over someone that didn’t speak
English??). Government agencies will sometimes seek us out specifically for
our advice, as if all of us have helpful perspectives to offer on global
capitalism just because we’re American, or white, or whatever.

I mean we aren’t just guests here, we’re honored guests, so it really
pisses me off when people don’t treat Taiwan with at bare minimum mutual
respect.
富有的移民（他們有時會稱自己為“外籍人士”，白人發明的一個詞是為了將自己與棕色
移民區分開來）出現在一個主權國家，不會說當地語言，也不會費心去學習，拒絕甚至改變他們的一點行為以適應當地文化，然後抱怨他們過得不好。就像，拋開道德問題，從純粹實用的角度來看，你期望什麼？老實說，我們在這裡獲得的迴旋餘地是非凡的。白人移民英語教師的收入比他們的非白人美國同事多一點，也遠遠超過他們的台灣人。警察通常不會費心給我們開罰單，顯然讓我們缺乏普通話成為一個優勢（你能想像如果一個美國警察攔住一個不會說英語的人會怎麼做嗎？？）。政府機構有時會專門向我們尋求建議，就好像我們所有人都對全球資本主義有有益的看法，僅僅因為我們是美國人、白人或其他人。

我的意思是我們在這裡不僅僅是客人，我們還是貴賓，所以當人們不以最低限度的相互尊重對待台灣時，我真的很生氣。

討論：https://reurl.cc/Y9Le4o

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