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No registration or sign in before the meeting is requested.
1. Introduction：
Bliss English Club is a wonderful and cool place running since 1997
where you can learn English, make friends and have fun.
2. Venue：
Emperor Café in Emperor Hotel 1F
No.118, Sec. 1, Nanjing E. Rd., Zhongshan Dist.,
Taipei City 104, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tamsui-Xinyi Line (R Line 2, Red Line)
-> Zhongshan MRT station -> Exit 6 -> 7min by foot
3. Time：
Almost every Saturday 14:30~17:30
4. During the meeting：English Only !!
Hosts are the souls of BLISS meetings. Any member can host a meeting.
The topics can be various as well as the ways conducted in the meetings
We have group discussions, role plays, recitation, book reviews and so on.
Other than English learning, we also like to make friends.
We hold colorful activities such as dinner meetings,
quarterly outings, and year end parties forming friendships.
Bliss is not only an English learning group,
but also using English to explore the world.
Welcome to join with us:)
5. Topic: Any topic !!
From Astronomy, world innovation, literature to art.
Any topic that the host feels interested to share !!
6.Admission Fee：
Minimum charge 120 NTD/ 10% service charge per meal/ Complimentary pastry
7.<Bliss Meeting Notice>
Recap of “Xenophobia” by Kevin Ting on 3/4
Host: Kevin Ting
Date: March 4. 2017
Subject: “Xenophobia
Participants: Kevin Ting, Serina, Annie, Brian, Angel, Daniel Yang, Ellen Huang
Meeting photo
https://goo.gl/ko2Axh
In the New Meeting Place, 國王飯店 , our ever-intellectual senior Blisser, Kevin Ting, arrived earlier and proceeded the meeting more fruitfully than expected.
“Xenophobia”
“Xenophobia” is an innate hatred toward foreigners or immigrants, regarding them as intruders, potential advantage-takers, horror-makers, burden-carriers, etc., the mindset of which is deliberately hidden among native adults but shown abruptly rude among the teenagers
Examples of “Xenophobia”
1. Hilter’s Holocaust to Jews in early 19th century;
2. British News describing Irish as low-raced criminals;
3. Asian-faced people are usually taken as low-educated law-breakers.
Unfair discrimination
1.Some participants said it existed when Asian-faced people role-taking shifted from cash-distributors to business competitors.
2.Others said it never happened when getting lost in Europe but receiving warm help from them.
Anti-immigration attitudes in the US:
1. Defined Irish as “Foreign devils” filthy equally as lowest Blacks
2. In 1800s, Italian immigrants menaced in strip cartoons as “Italitanos”
3. Humiliate “Mexicans” to shove it as lowly-paid workers.
4. In 1963, Africa-Americans were racially segregated.
5.“Forced Acculturation” banning Middle-Eastern headscarves from imperiling public schools
6.“Social Exclusion” segregated in “ghettos”, a breeding bed for crimes.
2016 Global Peace Index:
Terrorist-victimized Zone-covers Russia, Turkey, North Korean, etc., excluding Taiwan. What a relief!
Refugees’ problems
Many refugees died on the way while fleeing from Syria and Africa. When staying illegally in the host countries, they were vulnerable to sexual exploitation, labor abuse, and unfairly discriminating employment while lacking shelters, lawful protection, medical care, food and some others, sometimes enduring the traumatic split with family members. To pursue better lives, they need to apply for legal asylum in the host country.
Asylum seekers