March 31 (M), 2014 Crystal's Serendipitous Teaching-Learning-Sharing#28 Pedagogical Recipe#11: Minstrelsy and Institutionalized Ideologies.

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Just got out of my Diversity Studies Class!
Pop quiz for today -
Which of the following state you consider that might have more fun to facilitate (or teach) the Diversity Studies Course? (States were randomly selected).
A. California
B. Illinois
C. Tennessee
D. Wyoming
E. None of the above + All of the above, or fill-in-the-blank____________.
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Crystal Huang What’s going on - in your Diversity Studies class today? Sharing#28
Themes of this week:
1. What are Ideologies and Hegemonic/Ruling ideologies?
2. Natural-Law-Language and Stereotype convey Ideologies
- 2 powerful and invisible machines.
3. Social institutions, in particular, Pop-Culture/make-believe media, support, nurture and disseminate ideologies - omnipresent penetration.
[So, we know ideologies are like soda we drink:
Do we check all the sugar, chemicals, colorants ...on the label often??
How do we ask Why we drink soda?
WHO makes soda for WHOM and WHY??]4. Get mind-tools: Critical thinking approaches
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Crystal Huang Then we "examined" : yes, "analyzed it!" - some Name-Brand ideologies, such as, racism, sexism, classism, genderism, ableism, ageism, heterosexualism, Nazism, Neo-colonialism, communism, socialism...and so on so forth. Seemingly, most ideologies connote some "negative social forces". Then a student asked "Are there GOOD ideologies existing?" A good question... indeed, such as Nationalism and Patriotism can be very nice to call up solidarity and unity, but one side's patriotism can be another side's terrorism.... Nationalism sometimes will be in love with Imperialism.... Finally, we ran out of time. Stay tuned !
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Crystal Huang Today, during students' mini-presentation, the Minstrel shows were mentioned. I shared a brief history of the Minstrelsy clip and an analogy from my own experience (part of my Lesson Plan for this Unit Learning Activities).
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March 30 (Sn), 2014 Crystal's Serendipitous Teaching-Learning-Sharing#27: Pedagogical Recipe #10

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Pedagogical recipe Sharing!!! - at the end...

Could you believe it???

The attached song clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6_OwvyyH30 - which I compiled yesterday titled "My Hometown Is In China Mainland " 誰的家在大陸上- is one of my MOST favorite songs when I was a kid who is a 6th generation Taiwanese- in origin. People of my generation might also be familiar with songs such as 長城謠 (Ballads of the Great Wall) and 我的家在山的那一邊 (My home is on the other side of the mountains) which I might want to make into videos soon.

It needs a little patience for my twists and turns to reach the pedagogical recipe part! Though, this writing mainly is about songs, it also touched a little bit of other socio-cultural aspects.

There were 2 major types of Chinese songs popular in Taiwan during 50s, 60s and early 70s. One was nostalgic songs reminiscing China. The other one was military or patriotic songs to stir up the Will for fighting back to Reclaim China. The most prevalent sentiment during that time was that no one ever dared to ask - by whom, for whom, and of whom to get this holy task done!

These songs were composed by China-mainlanders. Many Chinese people followed the defeated Nationalist Government to Taiwan after they lost the civil war against the Communist China. Since then, Taiwan functioned as another military base for the Nationalist government's "Regain China Policy - 反攻大陸" after Japan’s colonialization in Taiwan for half of a century (1895-1945).

After this brief historical depiction, now getting into my focal point- in reminiscence, there were not many expensive, programmed, or chicken-cooped entertaining activities available, except the fresh air, butterflies, breeze, grass, dirt-n-clay, self-made rag dolls and so on when we were kids. For indoor activities, listening songs and learning to sing from our neighbors’ radios (my parents never owned a radio - a luxury item at that time- throughout our childhood) was a great treat. But, at school, you did not have much choice for songs which you needed to learn and sing. This could be one of the reasons I cultivated such a taste to listen and sing many Chinese Songs and loved them dearly. As a young kid, nice melody was always the first thing pleasing your eardrums that made you a day! Who cared the lyrics at that stage of life?

As growing a little bit older as a middle-school girl, then suddenly what the song trying to say did mean something. But they were almost the same, describing the wonderful things in China which we had never seen, never touched, or felt - from my reminiscence, in fact, it was quite a healthy way to cultivate the capacity of imagination as a young kid.

Furthermore, the war between the Nationalists and Communists caused the brutal separation of the new Immigrants' ties with China. They mainly comprised soldiers, bureaucrats, business people and commoners with an approximation of 2 million to swamp into this Island to be the Ruling Class during the chaotic transitional stage of 1949. It created a unique type of domination of low-quality Minority ruled the high-end majority due to the historical mischief and international irresponsibility. Any contact with people in China would be severely jailed or executed. Then you might be able to comprehend why these songs, poetry, and the rest of mind-feeders were so desperately needed with tremendous influence on people's daily thinking and behaving in Taiwan during those 4 decades (to Chinamainlanders and the rest of the populations). These happy and wonderful images typically depicted the OLD China's cornucopia with lovely 4 seasons, the magnificent landscapes, the sweet family, the sentimental love stories and so on so forth, and then suddenly the Communist Bandits destroyed everything….burring, looting, and plundering like the wild beasts… and we should be courageous to fight for the Nationalists to arrest and kill all the Communists, such as Sha Zhu Ba Mao (殺朱拔毛, slaughter Zhu Der and Pluck the hair of Mao Tse Dong)…
As an adult, recalling those various type of socio-economic-political domination and controlling both from Japan and China onto Taiwanese, one is hard to deny the power of Ideological manipulation via "Mandarinization" in addition to its predecessor of "Japanization" throughout Taiwan's modern herstory.

To understand the Mandarization process, it had better for me to brief the Japan's imperial-colonialism (1895-1945). In the early stage of Japanese oppression onto Taiwanese was brutally bloody to tame the socio-political dissidents (both the aborigines and the early immigrants). After the resistance was subdued, the Japanese colonial government implemented series of Japanization policies to transform/reform Taiwanese into the Emperor's loyal subjects. To render the few Taiwanese intellectuals, she prohibited the socio-cultural elites from studying Law, Politics and Economics. A tiny group of privileged Taiwanese were encouraged to study Science and Medicine and then selectively recruited or absorbed into the Japanese's system.

After World War II, a couple of unresolved Treaties from Japan's surrender suspending Taiwan's international status in uncertainty (the controversial issues of De Facto vs. De Jure status). The Nationalist Government left China after defeated by the Communists. As to the early stage of Chinese Nationalists' domination on Taiwanese (since 1947), it was not so well planned out as that of Japan's (a mutli-level socio-economic-cultural chasms and chaos resulted into a massacre with casualties of 20,000 Taiwanese. Majority were social elites. Detailed info could be found in my thesis - A Multi-Level Analysis of 228 Social Movement (A Massacre) of 1947 in Taiwan, deposited in the General Library of UW-Madison, 1993. After the socio-econ-cultural clash was suppressed, the long term witch-hunting Taiwanese started resulting in the White Terrors era - the Chinese style of McCarthyism imposing on Taiwan for more than 4 decades.

Here is a snapshot to recall some tiny events that most of us experienced:

When we were young, we were not allowed to speak our mother tongue at school (Taiwanese which, in fact, could be traced back its root relating to Fujianese, a dialect of the Fujian province in China). Japanese was denigrated as some older generations were taught and sometimes deemed as disloyal or traitors for using a foreign language. Majority of the curricular subject matters were all about China and Chinese - in a nutshell, NOTHING about Taiwan.

These were routine themes in daily learning of the curriculum, such as the Chinese style of Pledge of Allegiance to China, vows to reclaim China, recitation of National Zestiest, obeying all sorts of authority and doctrines. Had I ever questioned something??? Or anyone else? Ohhh, yes, ask those dare-devils (if still alive) who questioned, either disappeared from the community or found in the prisons. Silence was golden- a universal truth, as my mother constantly worried us children saying something wrong and innocent while persecuted. Thus, you saw, you listened, but kept mouth shut - there was never ever a question questioned by me throughout my student life in Taiwan for being such an "academically achieved one" and the winner of several great scholarships! Indeed, we lived in a question-free society!! What an out-of the-question wonderful world!

I was so good at learning about China, a pure successful product of the "Reclaiming Recovering China Educational Policy" - the poetry, literature, arts, music, history, geography, politics – all the 4000 years package of wonderful knowledge that instilled into me, I could regurgitate precisely as the teachers and all the tough exams wanted.

With so much great knowledge learned at schools, I barely knew the land, the culture, the history of this - Ilha Formosa - that kept me alive as a 5th generation Taiwanese.

Now I found this old and familiar song "My Home Is In China Mainland" that I sang it so often when I was a kid which indeed gave me lots of imagination yet without the required emotion or feeling about a great country that I should embrace dearly.

Now I am in the US, and I am trying to sing this song with feeling, just like other foreign songs that I love to listen and sing. I try to be mature enough to empathize the emotional part of those early Nationalist immigrants in Taiwan during those awkwardly separated time, just as I am here now. But listening and singing an another country’s song, you can be very much carefree and appreciate more in the melody, while those songs learned from early school days were so heavily loaded with socio-political ideologies foie-grased into the little brain so seamlessly, beautifully, and unforgettably. To songs, I was defenseless. Maybe, like most kids of my age, listening, singing repeatedly the songs with implanted love, imaginary care, and illusory ideologies, we might have become to believe - Yes, all the Taiwanese, one day, will reclaim China for Chinese! How glorious and grandiose mind-set it was that once occupied my tiny heart with such a strong belief :)!

By the way, why I sang and mentioned this song at this juncture? Well, here is the trigger in addition to the book that I just know a little bit- "The 400 Years Herstory of Taiwan" by Mr. Su Beng who is one of earliest "Questioners" and escaped persecution in exile for 6 decades. For these 2 weeks in my Diversity studies classes,


we have been focusing on how Ideologies dominate the markets of thinking and behaving; why and how certain people purchase/sell, produce/consume specific types of ideologies to recognize or justify the constructed world.

This Unit is the toughest one among the all for this spring semester, because it deals with Ideologies!!!!!!!!

When I was preparing for my lesson plans, the tune of “My Hometown is in ChinaMainland” suddenly lingered in my ears. Then I got this uhha moment for this short writing as my teaching materials.

Now, getting back to the serious part: So what is ideology? Hard to find a consensus.

Here is only a general definition of ideology which is a widely shared belief or idea that has been constructed and disseminated by the POWERFUL that primarily reflects their experiences and that functions for their interests.

Ideologies are anchored in the experiences of their creators, thus they offer only a partial view of the world. An good example of Ideology is how popularly and deeply believed notion of “Meritocracy” ( I wrote a couple of synopses posted on my fb and blog before). The two legs of an ideology are Natural Law Language and Stereotypes which keep ideologies penetrating and mobile.

In the singing case, for example, if anything applicable, it would be the song and lyrics which were constructed by the ruling elites from China to “Educate” Taiwanese people for being patriotic to reclaim China regardless the Taiwanese were barely breathing from Japan’s occupation. The songs was so pervasive in the culture, in particular education and mass media, and then was carrying on the duty of being one of the hegemonic ideologies.

But the most pervasive power of sustaining ideologies’ fluidity is the omnipresent Social Institutions which echo natural law language and stereotypes. The major social institutions include the family, religion, law, science, politics, economy, military, medicine, pop-culture, and now the most powerful one- the mass/social media.

Taiwan's pan-military policy parented the rest of social institutions before the martial law was lifted in 1989. Some people might argue that “social stability” was the great virtue contributing to Taiwan’s economic success. Let me make this statement as a question to end this short writing.
IS IT an ideology?


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A friend (I know her British Ethnic Background as an American citizen) asked me "are you a Taiwanese or a Chinese - regarding the origin?" I jokingly said "how to count the 5th or 6th generation in Taiwan that thrive socio-politic-culturally self-sufficient and independent... well, just for fun- are you an Englishwoman or an American - regarding the origin?" !

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道, 可道, 非常道; 史, 可史, 非常史-歷史啊,歷史-真是個剪不斷理還亂的 愁,惆,&籌.全世界也許再找不到比臺灣更有骨氣與精神 的國家!!!
The Whole World is Waaaaatching - Who is that Courageous and Strong ORPHAN of the Far-Eastern Asia, fighting her way against last 60 years' international and domestic repression and oppression; Who is that DAVID challenging the intriguing Goliath day by day??? Who has the collective GUTs to resist the deadly temptation of the world biggest Fly-Trap!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is - Taiwan - ILla Formosa! The democratic peaceful Warrior -defending humanity's liberty, freedom and justice - at the very FRONT LINE!
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Crystal Huang 騎強者, 既得利益者, 高枕無憂者, 隔岸觀火者, 米虫者, 危恐天下不亂者, 剝富罵街者, 暗渡陳娼者, 以及裡應外和者........也祝福您! To those coward, privileged, advantaged, fence-riders, parasites, blessing you - not to block the way that people are fighting for your freedom and democracy...
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March 29 (Sa), 2014 與是土斯民談情論愛- Somewhere my love: This is your land, this is my land..... I am renting on this piece of land

與是土斯民談情論愛-
人有悲歡離合,
月有陰晴圓缺.
有緣有義的相聚;
無理無情,
該離就散!!





江 差 恋しや   戀歌  (Japanese Oldies Love Story of Esashi )
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作詞：高橋掬太郎
作曲：飯田三郎

江 差 恋しや   別れ て 三月
夢も あの娘 の     ことばかり
沖 の 鴎の 鳴く  声 聞けば
逢えぬ    つらさが        え─ゞ身に    しみる

思戀你思戀你呀，你我離別三年啦。
昨暝的夢猶原也是你的夢。
港邊的海鳥，怎樣打醒阮眠夢。
啼哭聲音悲哀會給人，心內憂問。

飛んで  行きたい 心は   あれど
船頭する身は     船まかせ
無事で    いるかと    鴎に問えば
泣いて  いるよな     え─ゞ声がする

江 差 恋し   や   別れ  て 三月
夢も あの娘 の     ことばかり
沖 の 鴎 の 鳴く  声 聞けば
逢 えぬ   つらさが        え─ゞ身に    しみる

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星影のワルツ星月的離別 (Japanese Oldies: Starry Night Blues)
作詞：白鳥園枝
作曲：遠藤実
#68

別れることは　つらいけど
仕方がないんだ　君のため
別れに星影のワルツを　うたおう......
冷たい心じゃ　ないんだよ
冷たい心じゃ　ないんだよ
今でも好きだ　死ぬ程に

一緒になれる　幸せを
二人で夢見た　ほほえんだ
別れに星影のワルツを　うたおう......

あんなに愛した　仲なのに
あんなに愛した　仲なのに
涙がにじむ　夜の窓

さよならなんて　どうしても
いえないだろうな　泣くだろうな
別れに星影のワルツを　うたおう......
遠くで祈ろう　幸せを
遠くで祈ろう　幸せを
今夜も星が　降るようだ

March 29 (Sa), 2014 Happy Youth Day! 當自由民主開放的素養...

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- of courage, integrity, and determination !

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Crystal Huang Happy Youth Day - to the courageous builders of the Nation! Song for Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE4H0k8TDgw

Pete Seeger - This Land is Your Land
Today, May 3 2009, is Pete Seeger's 90th birthday (Note, he passed away on 28th, 2014 at the age of 94). I can't make the big concert at Madison Square Garden to celebrate it, so this is my small tribute to him,...
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小丫頭我, 實在沒能耐敲邊鼓- 才打幾個方塊字, 就像烏龜爬門檻, 真夭壽地磨人慢:)! 不過我倒有些不成熟意見, 向朋友請教:

有些情況, 可當朋友, 則當朋友. 雖然有時候, 大朋友們, 陰陽怪氣, 欺饜高髒, 難以伺候, 我們小朋友還是要走一步, 算一步 (記不記得那首叫做 - 小草並不小的歌 ???) - 再者, 以利合!! 稱兄道弟是還好- 尤其是有酒有肉的時候:D!. 但是不能找人- "作阿爸"! 孤兒不論再窮再沒勢 不宜認匪做兄, 認賊做父 (no matter the East 阿爸 or the West 阿爸, 除非是百分之兩百五 自由心證下地心甘情願 :)!- 看看這裡一些無可奈何的寓公寓婆, 為子女拋頭臚灑熱血的可憐天下父母心, 以及為孔方兄出生入死的拼命三郎三娘- 而我自己也是日子有時候也是過得滿頭大汗地ㄋㄟ- 比如說, 教社會科學眾說紛紜, 有時候也是污七嘛黑 你是知道地.  文字獄思想獄, 餘孽還是有.  想想50s年代, 這兒 抓匪諜比臺灣的白色恐怖 毫無遜色, 只不過是別有洞天. Anyway, 處處是危機. 尤其是偶而同事學生聽課, 不知是那根葱, 那根筋對不準, 聽不爽時, 我的汗兒會 大珠小珠落獄磐- 有時是不好完地!!
歹命喔, 誤入歧途...    但是除了當教書匠還能做舍- 真是行不得也哥哥姐姐得哦.  唉...這種工作還是要繼續咬緊牙關繼續做下去得..又感慨萬千... 為什麼, 天下大勢 與 個人小事, 是這麼個剪不斷理還亂地ㄋㄟ!!!

真是勞騷一牛車!

 In fact, 有些 作阿爸, 不但做享其成, 且一旦不爽 or, 心血來潮, 會獰虐孤兒- 至精神死亡, if not physically!!! - 歷史上例子多多!  近的嘛, 香港卻不是個合適前車...

自己會成長做個頂天立地得好爸爸. 再者我不反對結交國際國內有義氣的義兄義父義母義姐 - 並且是愈多愈好.

Though I might not have the right or privilege to say that "things that cannot break you, make you stronger", 如果 humanity 有情有法有理, 終會給臺灣一個歷史上的公道. I know I might sound Pollyanna-ish, but, still Keep hope with rational-collective actions if one desires it strong enough...Be Strong -夾在兩個強梁之間, 動則見咎- 不是好玩地, both to the Government and the People in Taiwan!!!(- sandwiched between the Hyena and the Wolf, plus the Sheep in the lead)...

There might not have feasible solutions available for a certain period of time, but the world is constantly in change - and change comes from hope and actions for a better future and a humane world...
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Crystal Huang Approaching to - 當自由民主開放的素養- 如臃成蝶- 有目共睹於世的時刻 !!!!!再加上這麼多年的 莊敬不自戕, 杵變不矜的 - "殺豬拔毛" - 氾軍事政治經濟教育策略下的 靂練 !! So far, the most significant and biggest democratically successful Country in the Far-Eastern Asia!See Translation
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Crystal Huang 要比財大氣粗, 也許沒那個雅興! 國際間並非完全瞎朧, 文明素質指標還是到處用得上 - 決定一國的國格, 器勢, 與前途!!Than in richer, maybe not in the mood! International is not entirely blind, Oboro, civilization character pointers is used everywhere-decide on a country's national dignity, potential, and future it! (Translated by Bing)
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March 28 (F), 2014 An Oldies Night !

My native language is Taiwanese.
Like Spanish is significantly popular in the US, so as Japanese in Taiwan :)!
Learning via Singing your neighbors' languages might be the best way to enjoy peacefully co-exiting :D! It might SAVE the WORLD - no kidding!   語言學習, 是知彼知此的一個最好工具.

#65
夜空
作詞：山口洋子 作曲：平尾昌晃

あの娘 　どこに 居る  のやら
星空  の続 く　あの町あ  たりか
細い     風 の    口笛 が
恋の傷  あ  とに  しみる
アアアー　あき らめた  恋 だから
なおさら　逢いたい　逢いたい
もう一度
夜は　いつも　独りぼっち

あの娘　帰っておいでと
流れ星に 乗せ　そっと 呼んで  みた
誰も  答えは しないよ
白い  花が  散る ばかり
アアアー　とどか ない  夢だから
なおさら　淋しい　淋しい
この胸よ
夜空　遠く　果てしない
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Mandarin Version
作詞：慎芝 作曲：平尾昌晃

忘了吧　再想他又有什麼用
還不是煩惱多一重　還不是有始無終
來匆匆　沒想到去也匆匆
昨夜夢　卻見你含情笑容
啊　啊　啊
漫長夜空　星月無蹤
夜空之下只有我在回想著往事如雲煙
忘了吧　還是把希望託夜空
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#66
濑户の花嫁
作曲：平尾昌晃  
作词：山上路夫

濑户は日 暮 れて，夕波小波，
あなたの岛 へ，お嫁 に  ゆくの，
若いと    谁もが，心配 するけれど，
爱が   あるから，大丈夫  なの，
段 々   畑と，さよなら   するのよ，
幼い弟 ，行くなと 泣いた
男     だったら，泣いたり    せずに，
父 さん母さん，大事に  してね。

岬 まわるの，小さな船が，
生 まれた岛が，小さく  なるわ，  
入 江の向こうで，见送る   人たちに，
别れ   つげたら，泪が   出 たわ，
岛から岛へと，渡って行くのよ，
これからあなたと，生きてく私，
濑户は夕烧け，明日も晴れる，
二人の门出，祝っているわ。
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いとしあの星 (Japanese Oldies 懷春曲)
 #67
作詞：サトウハチロー; 作曲：服部良一

馬車が行く行く　夕 風に
青い柳に　ささやいて
いとし  この身は　どこまでも
きめた  心は　かわ  りゃ  せぬ

暗いランプの　灯のかげで
たより書くのも　なつかしや
いとし返事は　なんと来る
母も行くよと　くる  かしら

ロバの鳴くのに　起こされて
窓を開ければ　朝の星
いとしあの星　あの瞳
今日の占い 何と出 る
夢で見た見た　いつかの夜
夢で話した　その人は
骨も命も　この土地に
みんな埋 めよと　笑い顔



星影のワルツ星月的離別 (Japanese Oldies: Starry Night Blues)
作詞：白鳥園枝
作曲：遠藤実
Sung by Xena Crystal Li-chin Huang #68
別れることは　つらいけど
仕方がないんだ　君のため
別れに星影のワルツを　うたおう......
冷たい心じゃ　ないんだよ
冷たい心じゃ　ないんだよ
今でも好きだ　死ぬ程に

一緒になれる　幸せを
二人で夢見た　ほほえんだ
別れに星影のワルツを　うたおう......

あんなに愛した　仲なのに
あんなに愛した　仲なのに
涙がにじむ　夜の窓

さよならなんて　どうしても
いえないだろうな　泣くだろうな
別れに星影のワルツを　うたおう......
遠くで祈ろう　幸せを
遠くで祈ろう　幸せを
今夜も星が　降るようだ

March 26 (W), 2014 Songs - that carry heavy His/Herstory 孤戀花 (White Magnolia)

Songs - bring you back to Herstory...revealing the specific socio-economic ambiance.



孤戀花  White Magnolia
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作詞：周添旺
作曲：楊三郎

風微微　風微微　孤單悶悶在池邊
水蓮花　滿滿是　靜靜等待露水滴
啊......啊......
阮是思念郎君伊　暗想思　無講起
要講驚兄心懷疑

月光暝　月光暝　夜夜思君到深更
人消瘦　無元氣　為君唱出斷腸詩
啊......啊......
蝴蝶弄花也有時　孤單阮　薄命花
親像瓊花無一暝

月斜西　月斜西　真情思君君不知
青春欉　誰人害　變成落葉相思栽
啊......啊......
追想郎君的情愛　獻笑容　暗悲哀
期待陽春花再開

March 25 (T), 2014 Is marriage easier than divorce in the International Matrimonial Market? 天下大勢, 合久-不正不義: 畢分; 分久- 有利有益: 裨合.

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Crystal Huang
March 20
Pop-quiz for today:
Under what kind of circumstances, is an International ANTI-Bullying Law possible? (plain languages only, no buzzwords, such as imperialism, neocolonialism...etc. ! !)
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James Kimbrough For mostly capitalist based societies..any anti - bullying legislations must be enforced through severe monetary penalties or expanded sentences within correctional facilities...change can be supported through improved support of psychological research.
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Charles Barnard Frankly, I doubt that such a law can exist and be enforced.

For starters, most actions taken by large organizations towards people seem to be closely related to bullying..including all governments....See More
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Crystal Huang International Bullying Behaviors have many Versions, some blatant, domineering, invincible, while others, intriguingly subtle, deceptive, and invisible- in addition to the old-fashion of Imperialism, Neo-colonialism, and the rest!!
The latter, the intangible Bullying 3.0, is much more detrimental, as 食髓不知畏引龜入甕陰陽謀袖裡錢坤大, 連孩子與＂孫子＂也知道個兵不血刃. Don't compare Pineapples with the rotten 人蔘 [臺灣與韓國 (這個 the latter, 管理它很會簽約)- 不同], the latter 不會和牠統!!) Taiwan has been contributing too much for her socio-economic success for last 3 decades - 搖醒睡屍給虎插翼, and what have you gotten for these 奶媽抱孩子 affairs - Too Much Ado About Nothing except growing some domestic fence-riding Fat-Cats and 無骨觀獠!! ( sorry, my dear feline majesties !. I shall not use your title for name calling !)
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Crystal Huang So what are the potential solutions?? - me too, have been schizophrenically searching and suffering for several decades....in a long-term work-in-progress mode to figure out the intriguing interface of the degree of the Self-Determination vs. the power of "Other's"-Determinations!
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March 25 (T), 2014 I am always allergic to the textile factory fires - On this 103rd Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire!

103 years ago today, 146 young working women died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City (March 25, 1911). This tragedy changed America's perspective on occupational safety issues.
But, in the 21st century the similar sad stories repeatedly happen in many low-income countries (- just recall recent Pakistan and Bangladesh textile factories tragedies...)
http://awareness-time.com/?p=2083

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Crystal Huang News relating to Textile factories always catches my attention- and makes allergic, too!!
My dear eldest (an unfortunate birth order for a female at that time) sister 秋子 (Akiko - a "legacy" of Japan's Imperial-Colonialism in Taiwan during 1895-1945) worked as a child laborer until she got married (with an occupational lung disease) at a couple of International textile factories -exporting orientated light industry in Taipei in the 2nd wave of "Free-Market, Free-Trade Capitalistically dominated GLOBALIZATION" during the Nationalist Government's Martial Law ruling (from 1947, to 1989).

In reminiscence, how scary and lucky it was that she could come home safely with her tiny paycheck for my mom and family (approximately 10 cents per hour...). She is truly an adorable and respectable MIT (Made-In-Taiwan) 71 years old sister ! !

I know she does not like to be mentioned regarding those dreadfully "glorious" days, but, sometimes I have to apologize, because without sacrificing to reveal these personal privacy and real life stories to expose what truly happened in the not-very-distant-past, His/Herstory may continuously repeat itself. And in fact, it is still repeating....

Maybe not until the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, the last drop of oil is drilled, the last river stops running, and the last air is polluted... will the one-way-train of the globalization, expansion, materialistic success, as well as the exploitation/human tragedies take a break?

Getting too serious.... Hehe, don't worry, surely, I am not so gloomy as the described! With awareness and the will to act/change collectively, progress is on the way - all the time !

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Charles Barnard And every few years since, similar horrors occur in similar workplaces around the world...but only recently have things begun to change in those places...

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Crystal Huang Just browsing 黃麗月's page (my fb friend, not my third eldest sister. They share the same name ! ), I found a suppppperb terrrrrrrific picture. I have to share ! It says - "Though unity is not strong enough, we still live together."- Stop and See ! ! Note, accidentally, the white space in the photo is the shape of Taiwan which nurtures different ethnic groups and various waves of immigrants to this ILL-AH Formosa!
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Crystal Huang Haha, just found an interesting fb page/Association
中華民國職業米蟲協會 ! (The Association of Professional Occupations of the Rice Worms (Parasites) - living in the Republic of Taiwan) !

March 24 (M), 2014 亞細亞的孤兒在風雨中奮鬥!! The Orphan of the Far-Eastern Asia has been fighting too long!

Crystal Huang   亞細亞的孤兒在風雨中奮鬥
Only Me

Here is Taipei, not Tiananmen Square-
International (behind the scene, the 資本,帝國,法西斯主義- capitalistic imperial fascist puppeteers) + Domestic (upfront-puppets) bullying student groups....


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Crystal Huang Internationally speaking, which country will resist the temptations of this big treasure island's lure, the world largest sweet fly-trap, not to mention Taiwan (the true Catalyst of the early stage of China's economic development).

Those capitalistic Big Fat cats (食髓不知畏) along with the no-backbone bureaucrats and oscillators/opportunists in Taiwan have been trapped by this deadly decoy for a while - no fear of the requiem - this could be a major cause of the students' protests.

Surely, the "adult world" always concern "the scene" behind students' organizations - but this is another story. Divide-and-Conquer is popular and cheap strategy as well. Skip here. Now go to the news:

The New York Times : http://www.nytimes.com/.../anger-grows-in-taiwan-against...
"TAIPEI, Taiwan — Demonstrators who have occupied Taiwan’s legislature since last week expanded their protest of a trade deal with China on Sunday evening by invading the government building nearby that houses the offices of the prime minister.

The protesters, including many students from local universities, have accused President Ma Ying-jeou and his allies in the governing Kuomintang of forcing through the trade measure without allowing a review of its details, which they fear will give Beijing too much influence over the island’s economy. http://www.nytimes.com/.../anger-grows-in-taiwan-against..."...



Anger Grows in Taiwan Against Deal With China
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Crystal Huang As posted previously, not many Nations/Countries in this world have the "insight and determination" to resist the world biggest honeyed fly-trap, not to mention to engage the David vs. Goliath's warfare... Taiwan is not a big Country, but with tremendous experiences (mostly learned from the historical oppression of the Imperialists, Colonialists, and illegitimate regimes) and GUTS...
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Crystal Huang Thanks to 彌喜樂 likes this. Let me sing a song -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd0vXF83srkTitle- "National Dignity or Blood"
Not about any specifically political "ism". Just sounds energizing?!
The Burning Blood (熱血歌) was published in 1937 - the inception of World War II in the Far Eastern Asia, triggered by Japan in the Northeast part of China/Manchuria.
The song writer was Mr. 黄自 (a great composer) and lyrics by Mr. 吴崇海. The song was influential during China's (either the Nationalists or/and the Communists ?!) fighting against Japan's invasion right before World War II.
Answer fb friends' question about my language(s):
I was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan and speak Taiwanese - like my ancestors several generations before me. Mandarin has been mandatory beginning in elementary schools, since the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan after Communist China won the civil war in 1949. Though the older generation(s) in Taiwan did/do speak Japanese (occupied by Japan during 1895-1945).

熱血歌
熱血滔滔, 熱血滔滔,
像江裡的浪, 像海裡的濤,
常在我心頭翻攪。

只因為史實未解, 疑豫難消。
兩千萬同胞啊 (note, some don't identify themselves with these 兩千萬, even parasitically living in and exploiting/plundering Taiwan) ! 灑著我們的熱血,
去增光耀!

熱血熔溶, 熱血熔溶,
像火焰般烈, 像旭日般紅,
常在我心中洶湧。

快起來為己解疑, 為國盡功。
兩千萬同胞啊 (note, some don't identify themselves with these 兩千萬, even parasitically living in and exploiting/plundering Taiwan) ! 拼著我們的熱血,
去爭光榮 !




熱血歌 National Dignity or Blood Sung by Crystal Li-chin Huang (黃昶) #22
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March 21
International Bullying Behaviors have many patterns, some blatant, domineering, invincible, while others, intriguingly subtle, deceptive, and invisible- in addition to the traditional Imperialism, Neo-colonialism, and the rest!!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/taiwan-student-protests/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook
Hundreds of students occupy Taiwan's Legislature to protest China pact
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Hundreds of students remained barricaded Wednesday in Taiwan's legislature in protest of a trade pact with China that...
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Crystal Huang "...The demonstrators, mostly university students, are protesting against the ruling party's push for a trade pact with China, which they claim will hurt the island (Taiwan, Illa Formosa). The movement has been dubbed the "Sunflower Revolution" by Taiwanese media..."
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Crystal Huang 032114 (F) "...The demonstrators, mostly university students, are protesting against the ruling party's push for a trade pact with China, which they claim will hurt the island- Illa Formosa. The movement has been dubbed the "Sunflower Revolution" by Taiwanese media..."
A song to share: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9quPWDoLxF0
...../\„,„/\......//^ ^\\ Live simply
....( =';'= )...(/(_•_)\) Speak kindly
..../*♥♥*\....._/''*''\_ Care deeply
..(.|.|..|.|.)...(,,,)^(,,,) and Love completely
- Have a nice weekend! Happy Birthday to you! 願您 慈悲為薪, 智慧如火♥!




Johnny Cash sings The Battle Hymn Of The Republic

From the Sept. 27, 1969 episode of The Johnny Cash Show, Cash is joined in the s...See More
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Crystal Huang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrG0AwUJQDQ
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on

The Battle Hymn of the Republic Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
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Joseph Lai God bless Taiwan...
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Crystal Huang Thanks to Marcie Bakker, James Kimbrough, and D Eby MSpitz's like this.
How to survive in an International Anarchism? The ghosts of Global Social Darwinism has been reincarnated into many forms and shapes (the obvious globalization via multi-national military-business-VERYcomplex corporations - is one of the convenient tools), and - in disguise across Continents, in the past, present, and hard to avoid - in the future...
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Joseph Lai " protesting against the ruling party's push for a trade pact with China"..?? it seems to me, they are protesting against the "anti-due democratic progress"..??
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Crystal Huang Perhaps, "Democratic Progress" means different things to different groups of people. In short, not many Nations have the GUTS to exercise David vs. Goliath''s type of battle. From my understanding, most people in Taiwan have the tremendous GUTS, while both the international and domestic environments have been embedded with lots of histori-political intriguing dynamics - either being wimpy/ calculative, or entangled with complex vacillating psychic ?

The global and interior Chess Game moves the Pawns less effortfully played by behind the screen. Domestically speaking, the socio-politically privileged and BIG business-financially advantaged few in Taiwan can be (surely have the right, just as those disadvantaged, and underprivileged's, to be) indecisive, or to be 西瓜倚大片/騙 ??!!. The Referendum is cumbersome, if not troublesome...But no one shall be deprived the Right to HOPE, and most importantly the Will to ACT-collectively, to choose where they could find and build what they believe in pursuing life, liberty and happiness!

These are social facts repeatedly proven in history that nothing seems possible until it is done. Yes, there are many hurdles ahead, but history reveals that social change, though slowly but surely, is inevitable toward better conditions.
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Crystal Huang Free music - Waiting for a long long Morning Breaking 破曉....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPoyArf5P6U...



Morning Has Broken 破曉 by Xena Crystal Li-chin Huang #60
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克里米亞公投對台灣的啟示
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Lo Chi Yuan 執政者傲慢不仁
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Lo Chi Yuan 執政者は傲慢で慈しみがありません
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Crystal Huang 天下大勢, 合久-不正不義: 畢分; 分久- 有利有益: 裨合.
East + West Germany,
United Vietnam,
Crimea to Russia...
Then, the dissolution of Soviet Union into 15 post-Soviet States, the breakup of Yugoslavia into 5 new States; East Timor's independence from Indonesia...and more world Marriages and Divorces will take place on the global Matrimonial stage based on the International Conjugal Benefits and Cost.

Coming up some renowned "divorcing" cases are:
Scottish independence referendum, 2014;
Quebec referendum again, 2014;
Venice organizing online vote to become independent from Italy;
Catalonia lawmakers having asked Madrid for a referendum on the region's future.... and more to come.
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