VOCAL HERITAGE: You Si-kun warned that Hoklo would disappear if nothing is done to save it, while William Lai encouraged people to learn other languagesBy Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff writer, with CNA
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Vice President William Lai (賴清德) and Legislative Speaker You Si-kun (游錫堃) yesterday encouraged Taiwanese to celebrate their languages and culture on International Mother Language Day.
The day is observed annually on Feb. 21, as designated by UNESCO.
“Taiwan’s various languages and cultures make Taiwan unique,” Tsai said in an interview on ICRT’s We Love Hakka program, the United Daily reported.
Tsai encouraged Taiwanese to communicate in their mother tongues and identify with their roots.
Promoting mother languages is not only a global trend, but a great way to understand Taiwan’s various cultures, which can unite Taiwanese and make them feel
More than 350 streets are named after Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) or his son Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), due to an edict issued during the nation’s authoritarian era, a study by the Transitional Justice Commission showed.
The survey of the Ministry of the Interior’s records of road names, online search engines and archival material found that 316 roads are named “Jhongjheng” (中正), a name adopted by Chiang Kai-shek, the commission said.
Twenty-eight roads are named “Jieshou” (介壽) which is an abbreviation of the slogan “long live Chiang Kai-shek” and 11 are named “Jingguo” (經國) after Chiang Ching-kuo, it added.
The survey was conducted
By Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerMore than 350 streets are named after Chiang Kai-shek （蔣介石） or his son Chiang Ching-kuo （蔣經國）, due to an edict issued during the nation’s authoritarian era, a study by the Transitional Justice Commission showed.
The Taiwanese Cultural Association recently celebrated its centennial anniversary. On Friday and Saturday, the Ministry of Education also held a conference on local cultural education to dig beneath the surface into Taiwanese culture and “indigenous education”; the conference was rich in historical significance.
Since the association’s establishment in 1921, the concept of “Taiwan belongs to Taiwanese” has become a core spirit in Taiwan-focused cultural education. However, indigenous cultural education was interrupted for more than half a century by “imperialization movements” first under Japanese colonial rule, and then during the Martial Law era under the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime.
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