Tuesday, October 23, 2018

20181031 What could be the new directions of the growth of our identify, i.e., new Taiwanese identify.

This is the initial draft of an outline. I found this too complicate for a 30-minute talk. I will re-draft a preview in Mandarin Chinese for sharing through email before the meeting on the 31th. 2018/10/23 15:39
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Outline:
1.          Introduction: Directions vs. destinations / the orientations of FAPA vs. other organizations
2.          Many types of identity: Ancient identity; ongoing identity; future identity; given identity; identity of choice; changing identity;
3.          What’s coming
4.          What’s desirable
5.          What could we do?

A、     Introduction - Directions vs. Destinations / FAPA vs. other organizations

a.          Dealing with direction other than a fixed destination is essential at this stage of exploration

1.        for developing a field rather than a line of thoughts,

2.        for gathering people rather than separating people into multiple sides.

3.        for maintaining flexibility to adjust to the ever-changing scenarios.

b.          The orientation and methodology of FAPA – mobilize the energy in the USA, especially those in the government and the legislation systems.

c.          What is identity – political, social, cultural are three major kinds of identities affecting us and our future. Racial and ethnical identity are fading away, especially in the immigrants circles. We need to and can work on cultural identity.

B、     types of identity

C、     What’s coming

D、     What’s desirable

E、      What could we do?

a.          Get to know what have been in our identities

b.          Get to know what might be coming

c.          Get to know what’s cooking

d.          Get to know the value and the potential elements involved

e.          Get to know the targets: a system vs. a fixed product and the FAPA methodology

F、      FAPA methodology

a.          Mobilize the Taiwanese Americans to form a common power

b.          Mobilize the USA system for the benefit of Taiwanese Americans, the Taiwanese, and Taiwan.

c.          Utilize legislations vs. spontaneous assimilations (legislations affect how we think and behave.)



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