On White Privilege in Taiwan

Ihave lived here in Taiwan for over four years. Overall it’s been a great experience. However, I wanted to share something that’s a bit less talked about: the case of white privilege in Taiwan. When I studied Mandarin here, I got a stipend from the government. I was told rather jealously, by a Taiwanese-American classmate that the same scholarship was unavailable to him despite the fact that he was born and raised in America, and was also learning Mandarin as a second language. At first I did not believe him, but sure enough, the all three of the government-sponsored scholarships explicitly state that ‘overseas Chinese’ students (i.e. students of Chinese or Taiwanese descent) were not eligible. [Note: To be fair this scholarship was available to people from other Asian countries, as well as from South America or Africa so it’s not strictly white privilege. But it does illustrate the alienation that some Taiwanese feel towards certain policies.] <a href="https://medium.com/@laura8mc/on-white-privilege-in-taiwan-9e482d12638">Click Here</a>