About one in seven Taiwanese have been treated in an unfriendly manner due to their external appearance, a survey has found.
Since 2013, the Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation has been conducting the survey every three years to understand how the external appearance of Taiwanese affects how people treat them.
The latest survey, which was conducted in March, used a stratified proportional sampling of the nation’s cities and counties to collect the responses of 1,110 Taiwanese aged 20 or older, the foundation said.
The results showed that 14 percent of respondents had been made fun of due to their appearance, while 15.3 percent had