html Starting from the evening of September 17, an earthquake of more than 6 in Guanshan area in Taitung occurred. Afterwards, aftershocks continued, and disasters of broken bridges and building collapses were also reported in Taitung and Hualien. In addition to earthquakes in western Taiwan, no related disasters were reported.
A strange phenomenon is - if you ask young people in Taiwan: What should I do when an earthquake occurs? There will be a group of people who answered this: Post online.
This is no joke. Recently, there is also "shot of earthquake alarms on your phone".
Most Taiwanese people will continue to work after feeling an earthquake. If it happens at bedtime in the middle of the night, they usually choose to continue sleeping after being shaken.
If you have a little bit of a crisis, you may wear clothes, bring your mobile phone wallet, and then - do whatever you should do.
Why are people in Taiwan "not afraid of" earthquakes?
First of all, it's irritating.
Taiwan is located in the junction of plates. Earthquakes are often frequent. On average, the earthquakes are about 300 times a year. It can be said that it is almost "a daytime shock". If every earthquake is shocked, then the days will really not be passed.
Second, The earthquake in Taiwan is mainly concentrated in places with a small population in the eastern half. Even if there are casualties, the number of people is not large. Over time, it creates an illusion that "earthquakes are not scary".
is relative. When the center of the earthquake is in the western half, due to the geological structure, most of them are shallow earthquakes. In addition, the population concentration often causes large-scale casualties, but the number of occurrences is too few than that in the eastern part.
According to the data, there are only three earthquakes with the 921 earthquake in 1999.
Taiwanese believe in "little happiness". When the incident occurs, Taiwanese people will feel sad and empathize, but they will not learn from it, let alone change themselves, because we think it is too troublesome.
This kind of character that lives today and doesn’t care about tomorrow can also be confirmed from another natural disaster, that is, Typhoon .
There is a kind of activity in Taiwan that is particularly dangerous and even "deathful" by typhoons, called watching the waves.
This is a very strange phenomenon.
Whenever there are typhoons, there are always people who have to go to the beach to watch the waves, and there are always people who are on the news of the next day. The title is: Being swept away by the waves and not being rescued.
This year is no exception. On September 12, the moderate typhoon Canshu passed through Taiwan, and two more passengers on Green Island were swept away by the waves in order to watch the waves. One was rescued and the other disappeared.
However, when the next typhoon comes, there will be people going.
Actually, I remember a typhoon a few years ago. When I called my sister to ask about the disaster in Kaohsiung , she also mentioned that she wanted to watch the waves, but later she didn't go, but now I also asked her curiously why she still wanted to go even though she knew the danger was. Her answer was: It's fun, I always want to experience things I haven't tried before.
Think about it carefully, this is actually another personality of Taiwanese people: they like to take risks.
has this habit, perhaps it is the inheritance of the islander's personality.
Taiwan is narrow and has a scarce natural resources. Therefore, many Taiwanese residents in the past made a living by the sea. At the sea, whether they were fishing, doing business, or even being pirates, was actually "taking risks and making troubles" and must be "not afraid of death".
The results obtained by "fighting your life" will also bring greater satisfaction.
On the other hand, there are factors that are increasingly pursuing excitement because there are too many entertainment methods now, and people's threshold for spiritual satisfaction is getting higher and higher.
So today, when the materials are relatively abundant, although most people do not need to fight for their lives, they do not like the genes of comfort, which will make people want to "take risks" even if they know the danger. For example, watching the waves, are the waves so beautiful? I can't think of it all, the focus is on the romance of "fighting for life" in the process.
The previous slogan of the DPP "anti-China and Taiwan" also greatly utilized the "romantic" characteristics of islanders' personalities. After all, the "anti-China" situation such as "resisting China" must be difficult, and the results must be sweet.
But the reality is not like this, because whether it is about business, pirates, or even watching the waves, no matter whether the final result is cost-effective to outsiders, there is a possibility of "success" in the end
However, "anti-China and Taiwan protection" is obviously absolutely hopeless. Even if it seems very promising at the beginning, it is almost dead end to people.
So the people's current excitement is already inclined to abandon themselves after "despair".
August Pelosi After the visit, the PLA's military exercises around Taiwan, missiles passed over Taipei, but the Taiwanese people did not seem to feel that they would continue to live their own lives. In fact, the Taiwanese people are not afraid or worried, but the reality is that the people are unable to change the DPP's misconduct. Even if they see through the DPP's "anti-China" does not include "protecting Taiwan" but do not want to vote for the Kuomintang, which has no backbone and is swaying in cross-strait policies, so they can only do whatever they want. The mentality of
makes it the best solution for the Taiwanese people, and may also be the "only solution". After all, the current situation will not be worse, so do whatever you should do.
