Discrimination歧視 in Taiwan

 My 7th graders are doing a group presentation on discrimination in Taiwan. I am taking a break in our Civil Disobedience Unit, we had just finished The Civil Rights Movement. They must come up with an example and some solutions. I had to show them examples as many of them didn't believe Taiwan had racism or ageism.
Vocabulary:

1. Aboriginal people  原住民 
2. Westerner 西方人   Otherness 不同性
3. Wheel chair access 輪椅通道
4. Pay gap  (性別的)薪資差距     salary 薪資   sexual harassment 性騷擾 
5. Second generation immigrants 第二代移民
6. South East Asia 東南亞
7. Disabled people 殘障人士
8. Ｒent 房租     Landlord 房東；地主         Tenant 租戶；佃戶；房客
9. Gender性別　equality 平等/ inequality　不平等  
10. Victim 受害者    harass使煩惱   harassment 騷擾行爲      
11. abuse (n./v)   verbal abuse 辱駡
12. punishment 懲罰   EX:  jail, fine, community service （志願或代替服刑的）社區服務
13. LGBT (Lesbian女同性戀 Gay男同性戀  Bisexual 雙性戀 Trans 跨性別)

Think About:

• How can we help disadvantaged people? 我們如何保護弱勢的人？

• How to enforce change? 如何實行改變？具體方法？ New laws? Punishments? Education? 
• Be specific 特定的； 明確的 !  

歧視	EXAMPLES	SOLUTIONS
Racism 種族歧視
Sexism 性別歧視
Ageism 年齡歧視
Disability殘疾 discrimination
Religious 宗教 discrimination
Sexual orientation 性取向 discrimination

Their grading rubric for their presentations is here:

Discrimination in the University dorms and lack of Gender Studies

Example Videos: Many thanks to my co-teacher Alii for finding most of these videos.

Second generation immigrants 第二代移民

 (English news with Chinese subtitle)

Second generation immigrants strive to overcome discrimination in Taiwan

Aboriginal 原住民

1. Discrimination against aboriginal people. Stereotype and racial discrimination.
2. House renting ad refuses aboriginal tenants.
3. A military camp commander said ‘’you aborigines all love alcohol, and that is what you learned since you were kids)

Gender Discrimination

1. Gender Discrimination in Taiwan. Girls love shopping?  Single women cause danger, Pay gap, Taiwanese women earn 82% of men.   Men suffered from discrimination too: they must be tough, cannot cry…

Age discrimination

1. USA: Social Experiment: Age Discrimination Food Truck  (English)
2. UK: Areporter suited BBC for age discrimination (English & Chinese)
3. Taiwan: A lady was refused by her sports centre when she turns 77
4. Taiwan: The elderly face difficulty renting house, 2 
5. 1.    Taiwan: Driving class: pay extra 1000NT/2000NT fee if you are over 40/50!
6. Taiwan: Discrimination in job application
7. In Taiwan, Many/Most job application forms ask people to disclose their personal info including age, sex, marital and family status, even height and weight.

Disability Discrimination

1. Train station staff discriminated against a disabled lady.
2. McDonald discriminated against a down-syndrome customer and kicked him out.
3. Laundry store with 90% disabled employees was complained by the neighbors.  

Religious Discrimination

1. USA: Social experiment Muslin clerk (English)
2. Taiwan: two American Mormon teachers were fired because of their religion. The Catholic school was fined by the govt.
3. Taiwan : the Festival of Fast-breaking   (Eid al-Fitr) Chinese
4. Taiwan: Employer forced Muslim migrant worker to feed pigs
5. Taiwan: Muslim immmigrant workers do not eat pork
6. Taiwan: a NGOworker advocated that Taiwanese must  treat migrant workers  fairly

Sexual orientation

(English & Chinese subtitle) A famous tragic case: In 2000, a 15-year old boy Yeh-Yung-Chih 葉永鋕was found dead in blood at the school toilet.  He had been bullied for a long time in school but teachers ignored it.  After his death, Yeh’s mother became a brave activist in the struggle for LGBT rights movement. 

POST PRESENTATION: What Other Countries Are Doing
Gender Pay: Iceland
Affordable Housing: Germany
Creative Housing for Elderly: Holland
Good Samaritan Laws:  好撒馬利亞人法   USA,
Hate Crime Laws: UAE, USA (45 States have a Hate Crime Law)