中國人對台灣了解多少？中國女生不知道台灣人可以投票嗎？Do Chinese People Understand Taiwan? 🇨🇳🤷🇹🇼？

Is Taiwan a country? What is that? It's a pig? It's because the shape of Taiwan looks like a sweet potato. Oh, okay. Does it look like a banana? That might be the most offensive thing you've said in this video. I love Taiwan. Okay, yes, hello everybody. Welcome back to the channel. My name is Alan. This is My Life in Taiwan and welcome to Miss Zhou. Yes, Miss Zhou is visiting my house for Christmas. I'm giving her a British Christmas experience. How are you enjoying Christmas so far? It's great. What's the best part about Christmas? Love. Oh my goodness. Perfect answer. So Miss Zhou, where do you come from? I'm from China. And what would you say is the biggest difference between life in China and life in England? Food. I miss Chinese food that much. What's your favorite Chinese food? Hakka food because I'm from Hakka. Yeah, in Guangdong Hakka area. So I've invited Miss Zhou onto my channel because I want to give a real life Chinese person a quiz on Taiwan and see how much you understand Taiwanese life, Taiwanese culture, Taiwanese general knowledge. Are you excited? Okay, yeah. Nervous? Yeah, a little bit. So can you explain a little bit first about what you learned about Taiwan in school? In the textbook, it talks about Taiwan is part of China. Okay. Taiwan's landforms, like Riyuetan, Alishan, those kind of things. The main sources that we learn about Taiwan is from Chinese textbook and then the history book. So history book is more focused on Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, these three areas. One country, two systems. Well, I don't want you to feel any pressure today. It's supposed to be a little bit of fun. I just really want to get to know how much Chinese people understand Taiwan. Which country is closest geographically to Taiwan? China. Okay, can you name any of the other countries that are nearby? Japan, Korea, South Korea. Yeah, perfect. One point. Question number two, what is the population of Taiwan? What? 2,500,000. Okay, I'll give you that. It's 23.5 million, but you're close enough. How many countries around the world recognize Taiwan as a country? Zero, 12, 50 or 150? The most, that one. You think 150 countries recognize Taiwan? Yeah. That's your first failure of a question. Only 12 countries recognize Taiwan as a country. Oh. Is China one of them, do you think? No, no. I don't think China wants the world recognize Taiwan as a country. Okay, why do you think that is? Because Taiwan is one part of China. Okay. I've got a feeling we're going to hear that a few times in this video. I might confuse your question with countries and nations. So I thought Taiwan is a nation. Okay. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, region, region. Oh, okay. Region. Okay, region. Region, yeah. Because Hong Kong is also a region. Okay. What is the currency of Taiwan? Taiwan dollar or something. Yeah, it's actually the new Taiwan dollar. Who is the president of Taiwan? No. Oh, my God. Not Ma Ying-jeou. It's interesting that you choose Ma Ying-jeou as the one you remember the most. Because he was the last KMT. I think Ma Ying-jeou have more friendship with mainland, I think. With China. Yeah. Mainland. China. Okay. The woman, Tai, Tai, Tai. Tai, what? Tai, I don't know. Her family name is Tai. I guess you could just say President Tai. It's Tai Ing-wen. Oh, yeah, Tai Ing-wen, yes. And for a bonus point, do you know what party she represents? Tu? No, Tai. Tai. No. Tai Ing-wen. 民進黨. The next question, what type of government runs Taiwan? Democracy, democracy. Yeah, okay, I'll give you the point. It's actually a democratic republic, which means that people can vote in Taiwan. Yeah, same as US. Yeah, very similar to the US, yeah. And the rest of the free world. Talking of democracy, what year did Taiwan become democratic? 1949. No, that's the year that the Kuomintang left China and went to Taiwan. And after the Kuomintang arrived in Taiwan, there was a period of white terror. Have you heard about this, white terror? White terror, 白色恐怖. I don't know, yeah. It was a really regretful time in Taiwanese history when the government were very oppressive and tried to control the people. But it's something that they still acknowledge, remember and regret, shall we say. But it's not something that they would hide. Okay. Do you have anything in China that people do you think they would hide? Yeah, cultural revolution. Yeah. I think it's their regret. Yeah. So it wasn't 1949, but it was after 1949. In what decade would you say that... 50s? Oh, okay. It was actually the 80s, 1988. And interestingly, the first president that was voted in by the people was in 1996. English is very popular in Taiwan, but what percentage of Taiwanese people speak English? Two. Two percent or two people? Me and Alan. 20. Okay. 28.5% of Taiwanese people can speak English, can communicate in English. I also googled the percentage of Chinese people that speak English. Can you have a guess? Their whole country. 100. You think over a billion. Can your parents speak English? No. So then why'd you say the whole country? No, I mean like... I mean like you're talking about the whole country, the percentage of people can speak. The percentage of people in China that can speak English. Not as much as Taiwan, probably. That's correct. It is not as much as Taiwan. But what would you say? Have a guess. 10. 10%? Yeah. It's 0.7%. Really? According to what I googled, it says 0.7%. Not even 1%. On to the picture quiz. I'm going to show you some famous Taiwanese people now. First one. Yeah. Who is he? Okay, do you know this person? Yeah. This Cai Yilin, is it? Cai Yilin. Yeah. Jolin. When I was a kid and she already popular. Do you think most Chinese people know that she's from Taiwan? Yeah. Are there any other famous Taiwanese people that you maybe think people think are Chinese, but they're actually Taiwanese? In TV program or TV drama, there's a list at the end of the show. So it will written down like China, Taiwan. China, Hong Kong. China, Macau. If she pops up in the TV show, and then the subtitle will say Jolin, China, Taiwan. Next one. Cai Yingwen. Nice. Okay. You know that one? This one? This one. No, I don't know. Okay. This is a very famous badminton player called Cai Tzuying. She became popular in the Olympics. She won a silver medal in the Olympics. So that one you're not too sure. Okay. Next one. This is Zhou Jielun, Jack Zhou. He is like crazy popular in China. And how would people feel in China if he really promoted Taiwan independence? Would they accept it? He will have no reputation in mainland anymore. Next one. Yeah. Do you know what is this? Trampolines? No, gorilla? What is that? A pig? That might be the most offensive thing you've said in this video. You've called Taiwan's national animal a pig. This is a national animal? What is that? That would make so much sense. This is a Taiwan black bear. Black bear? Taiwan black bear. But it has a white bear. That's its trademark sign. That's the Taiwan black bear V. So you can identify it very easily. And continuing with the picture round. Some famous locations in Taiwan. Can you name this place? Is that Taipei 101? Next one. Yeah. Very good. That's Sun Moon Lake. Oh, but it doesn't look like Sun and Moon. Number three. Is this Taipei Palace? But I don't think we call it Taipei Palace Museum. We call it the National Palace Museum. National Palace Museum. Oh, okay. I really want to go there. Because there's so many treasures. Do you know any of the famous treasures? It's like a big cabbage something. Most of my friends visited Taiwan. This is definitely the place that they will go. Do Chinese people have any resentment or anger to the Kuomintang that took all of those treasures away from China into Taiwan? There are so many Chinese treasures there. So many people think it's like a bad thing. Like it's like shame. Yeah, to steal from the different cultures. Yeah, like our stuff is showing there. But I see it's another view. It's like if they didn't do that, it might destroy already. Because of the Cultural Revolution, that during that time, so many things cannot be kept. So as long as I think they still survive or like it's still there. I think it's a good news. So would you like to say thank you to Taiwan for looking after your ancient treasures, do you think? But Taiwan is also one part of my land. So he's just doing his job. Okay, so far so good. Next one. No, what is this? Is it school? No. Is that guohui or something? No, no, probably not. I don't know. This is the presidential palace. This is where Taiwan lives. It's like the White House. This is our Taiwanese White House. As you may know, Taiwan is very famous for making things, manufacture. Can you name three Taiwanese companies? I should do this. But I can't think of any right now. Wow, okay. How about Fusecong? I thought it's Japanese. What are the colors of the Taiwanese national flag? Red, blue, white. And can you give me a description of what the national flag looks like? I remember there's a star or something at the corner. I can't remember too much. Sounds a lot like Chinese flag. Stars in the corner and red. Do you know what happened in Taiwan on September the 21st, 1999? Also known as Jiuyi. No. There was a massive earthquake. Is it serious? Yeah, 2,415 people were killed. Oh, sorry about that. In one of the local dialects, natives of the island of Taiwan describe themselves as children of the sweet potato. Why do they use this to refer to themselves? They call them the children of sweet potatoes. Yeah, some of them. Weird. I don't know why. It's because the shape of Taiwan looks like a sweet potato. Oh, okay. It doesn't look like a banana. Who is considered to be the founding father of Taiwan? Sun Yat-sen. Yeah, okay, cool. What do we call him in Chinese? Guo Fu. Yeah, do you call him Guo Fu? Yeah, I think so. Okay, nice. Well, that almost brings to an end your quiz. I think you did an amazing job. But after all of these questions about currency, national flags, presidents, the final question would be, is Taiwan a country? No. It is one part of China. You don't even need to think about it. You just say that it is just 12 countries recognize Taiwan as a country. Yeah. Yes, but there's many countries in the world. They didn't say Taiwan is a country. Why is that? Would you be sad if Taiwan was to become independent and leave China completely? I feel like as long as people are happy. Yeah. So I think if Taiwan come back, people are happy. That's good. If they're not coming back, people are happy. That's good. Yeah. For me, people are more important. Well, that brings to an end our quiz. I'm not too sure of the score, but I think to say you passed. And your gift for passing the quiz. Bubble, bubble tea. Is a bubble milk tea. Can you read what does it say there? Taiwan. What does it say? I love Taiwan. Yeah. I love Taiwan. Yeah, I definitely want to go to visit. Yes, that's something that I really want to do. I would love to bring Miss Tso to Taiwan. Miss Tso is actually a friend of Prozzie's from when he lived in China. You used to work together. Yes. Yeah. And interestingly, this podcast has been sponsored by the Alan and Prozzie podcast. You were in an episode of our podcast last week. Yeah. We took a nice walk around here and we explained and discussed a little bit about the situation between Taiwan and China. So if you want to see that video, check out the link in the description down below. And yes, please comment down below and congratulate Miss Tso on her knowledge of Taiwan. And if there are any questions that you didn't know the answers to, then by all means, let me know which questions you found more difficult than the others. But I think that's time to say thanks to Miss Tso. You're welcome. Thank you for coming to my channel. You speak very beautifully about China and I'm very happy to introduce some new Taiwanese information to you. Okay. So as always, time to say goodbye. I'll see you next time in my life in Taiwan. Peace. Bye-bye. Oh, this is how you make videos. Did you realize that we were... Did you notice that she keeps the camera filming? No, it's like... You thought we were just having a chat? No, it's all like... You really like a TV show like... How you do like... Yeah, bye, hi, like this. Yeah, you have to connect to the audience, connect a little bit to the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was amazing.