Saturday, August 2, 2008

PRC Tourists



This is a political advertisement from Taiwan. It was paid for, I believe, by Chen Shuibian's party. The basic idea of the ad is that if people from the mainland come they will trample and rampage all over the island. The caption runs something like "Public parks change into public toilets, a conversation becomes a spitting contest." The second bit about spitting can't really be translated because its a clever pun, but you get the idea. Some of the Taiwanese politicians for some reason believe that their constituency can be made to believe that tourists from the mainland will immediately proceed to make the whole place stink by urinating and tossing garbage about the entire place as soon as their plane touches down and that everyone in Taiwan will die from the infectious diseases that flood the island as soon as the hapless tourists got there, mostly due to tuberculosis from all the aforementioned supererogatory expectoration. I found this picture some time ago and meant to post it, but forgot. Since then I haven't heard much about Taiwan, so they are either all dead from tuberculosis, rabies or some other complaint, or I need to bone up on my current events.

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