Eindrücke und Meinungen einer jungen Europäerin
When I came to Taiwan for the first time last January which feels like an eternity ago, I couldn’t but fall in love instantly. I visited the city of Taipei during the Chinese New Year celebration and got quite a wrong impression at first sight: so many closed stores and empty streets. But I loved …
Everyone travelling to Asia can relate: The scenery is stunning, the food is amazing, the history is thrilling and the people are welcoming and friendly. Besides, East Asia is known to be safe and clean. But there is more to Taipei than just that.
In February 2015 I met a young man with a wild beard in Vietnam. The man was French, a well-educated engineer who had, because everybody did it, set up a LinkedIn account only to realize that there was not much to his person except for education, internships and his work experience. Also, because he felt …
Just when I thought equal rights were about to improve, become the norm – at least in our so called progressive and modern European society, this happens. There is no week passing without another discusting case about victim blaming. The latest event is a video issued by the Hungarian Police about how women could pretend being raped …
With the whole discussion about dubious methods of public sexual harassment covered as “the art to pick up women”: some thoughts. I normally don’t do stuff like that, but I just unfriended some guys who were posting videos defending Julien Blanc’s methods of how to “pick up girls”. They argue that “he is succesful”, “he …
This text is about a part of Chinese-Taiwanese history, without making a claim for academic quality, but simply being based on my seven weeks experience and the exchange with people in this wonderful, but politically very controversial country. Taiwan is a country with its own history and its own identity which is obviously created upon …
Europe was for me, a young, curious and open-minded woman, always more than just home. Europe was for me as well the – pretty decently practiced – idea of cooperation, democracy and, most of all, peace. I found my idealistic hopes and dreams realized in the European Union and passionately begun to organize all my …
How I ended up in Kanazawa, Japan I moved to Japan when I was 20 years old and (rather) madly in love with a lovely Irish man whom I had met a couple of months before in Krakow where I spent some time for a European Voluntary Service. He had always been fascinated by the Japanese …
Bosnien und Herzegowina war für mich leider lange Zeit ein Land, mit dem ich nicht viel außer eines Bürgerkrieges, der für kurze Zeit Thema im Politikunterricht war, in Verbindung bringen konnte. Dementsprechend war ich doppelt erfreut über die Einladung zur International Youth Conference „Mlada Evropa“ in Sarajevo zum Jahrestag des Attentats auf Franz Ferdinand 1914, …
The protest in Taipei goes into the second week. On Tuesday one week ago, the 18th of March, a group of activists stormed into the legislative Yuan, the parliament, of Taiwan. Since one week they barricade themselves in the congress. Their protest is supported by people occupying the streets around the building.
