I studied Mandarin with a woman who was born in Taiwan and raised in the US. It made me very interested on this topic.
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oh Taiwan's history is a huge mess. It's technically not even independent
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we have to talk around it so as not to make China angry, etc
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There were and still are serious social problems but it was easy to ignore thanks to the austanding oil revenues.
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yeah, bad governments can be propped up by natural resources, like Chile's copper mines
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In Venezuela, it starts with Bolivar. Every city in the country has its main street and main square named after him.
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right, and in the early days of the US they almost made a god out of Washington
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and you see Chiang Kai Shek's face everywhere in Taiwan
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there's been a lot of commentary about how the US thought it was beyond "strongman" politics but now here's Donald Trump
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I was actually talking about this with a Cuban-American journalist. The Trump phenomenon helps to explain so much to USians.
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right, that policy and ideology become less important than the symbolic leader
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Trump's beliefs change all the time but his fans don't care, they project their emotions onto him
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people from Europe say because we don't have royalty we have a tendency to revere our elected leaders that's dangerous
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