Some notes:

Vitas is Badass: I've actually heard of him because they used to show commercials here all the time when, I think, he was going to have a concert here. Then, I saw this video of a Taiwanese musician (whose CD became, this week, the first Chinese-language album I've ever bought) who did his own version of this Vitas standard:

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Evil Empire: Based on my experiences in Taiwan, I find the "Evil Empire" label a bit of a stretch. I get the impression that Taiwanese view the US at worst with ambivalence and at best with utter fascination. I've never felt that Taiwanese people follow the war on terror at all. So the idea that Taiwanese are "skeptical about 'spreading Democracy in the Middle East' especially when they think it’s all about oil and war profiteering" is a stretch because it implies that the average Taiwanese person keeps up with the war in Iraq. I'm not saying the argument can't be made about the US, but that it seems unlikely that a lot of Taiwanese are making it.

Porn Everywhere: Nearly every non-Japanese Asian person I've ever talked to about this sees Japan as a land where demented sexual practices flourish. Japanese seem to be regarded by a lot of people as kinky sex-addicts.

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