It is Taiwan, not Tailand

Have you ever been to Taiwan? Have you ever heard this country before? If your answer is yes, then can you say the exact location of this country? You may need to check the world map to discover the certain location of this island. Or, let me ask another further question if you don’t get me wrong, would you please tell me honestly, did you know that Taiwan is an island? Did you know it?

Do you know the native language of Taiwan? What do people speak in this island? If I say Chinese, what would be your reaction? What would you say? Go along with you, or you ve got to be kidding me?  

If you ask those questions to yourself, you will almost understand how well you know Taiwan!.

Honestly, Western people don’t know Taiwan so well, sometimes they even could confuse Taiwan with Tailand, at least that is situation in Turkey.

I think the reason of this situation is the long distance between territories. Taiwan is a small Island when we compare with the western countries and if the economic power of Taiwan was not exist, less people would be familiar with the name of this island. In the world, Taiwan is known as the tiger of Asia because of its economy. Gross National Wellfare is so high in Taiwan and people live pretty well on the island which is one of the safest countries in the world.

Taiwanese are so honest, especially when they do business. Customer satisfaction is more important than earning money for them. Today, I went to buy shoelace and after looking half an hour for to find a place to buy, ultimately a shop caught my eyes and entered to ask if she sell shoelace. She showed me some products but they were suitable for sneakers, not suit for leather shoes. I told the owner that I want to buy but she said it would be better if I don’t buy it, coz it is not the type I asked. She told me that she could sell the shoelace to me but the matter here is not earning money, it is getting the suitable product you want. I said I want to buy it coz of her honesty and I bought of course.

In Taiwan, the most important and common mean of transportation is scooter. It is estimated that the number of scooters on Island is more than the total population. If you write Taiwan and google it, what you see would be a lot pictures of 101 building and pictures of Taiwanese on scooters. Scooters in traffic cause traffic jam many times. Driving is not so enjoyable in Taiwan because of those motorcycles. And most of foreigners prefer to ride bikes instead of scooters.