<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">It would be interesting to know the source of that "primitive culture" quote. The Taiwan experience with Japan was very different from that of Korea. Taiwan did not exactly appreciate the demands, from time to time, from Beijing and was far more amenable to Japanese rule than was Korea. Japanese culture penetrated deep into Taiwan in ways that it never did in Korea -- a legacy that continues to this day.<br>Don Kirk<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann@koreanstudies.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 26, 2013 1:03 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [KS] Japan-Korea, France-Algeria: Colonialism and language policy<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br clear="none">By 1945 about 80% of the population of Taiwan was speaking Japanese. <br clear="none">And Taiwan, let us not forget that, was considered a "primitive <br clear="none">culture" in the late 19th century when the Japanese colonized it.<br clear="none">Just something to think about.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">See:<br clear="none">Catherine Shu-fen (Yu) Fewings, "Japanese colonial language education <br clear="none">in Taiwan and assimilation, 1895-1945," PhD diss., Curtin University of <br
clear="none">Technology, 2004.<br clear="none">(<a shape="rect" href="http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=15269&local_base=GEN01-ERA02" target="_blank">http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=15269&local_base=GEN01-ERA02</a>)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<br clear="none">Frank<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt6035600422" id="yqtfd29835"><br clear="none">--------------------------------------<br clear="none">Frank Hoffmann<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://koreanstudies.com/" target="_blank">http://koreanstudies.com</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>