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★  Guardian, 2021-8-30: 鬼月中的Covid theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/30/not-open-for-humans-covid-changes-east-asias-ghost-month-but-free-spirits-remain
台灣年輕族群仍十分迷信,  1/3不願在鬼月中加班,  70+%在公司角落聽到怪聲響,  或空無一人的廁所有沖水聲,  等等...  Some suspicions are still common among younger generations. A recent survey of Taiwan office workers found a third of respondents avoid working overtime during Ghost Month. The poll found 40% of office workers had reported strange encounters in the late hours. More than 70% reported “eerie sounds” from office corners, while others said they heard footsteps, saw windows open on their own and elevators arrive on their floor without being called, or heard toilets flushing in an empty bathroom

★  BBC, 2-10-2021, "Why Taiwan has 'luck-improvement services' ": There’s a pervasive idea running through Chinese culture that things aren’t random, Stevan Harrell, emeritus anthropology professor at the University of Washington said, “There’s a belief in order: there’s some sort of order behind everything.” Many people believed in a simple maxim: “tian zhuding” (“heaven decides”).  Some higher power has plans for each person on Earth, traditional Chinese belief also holds that “heaven never seals off all the exits” – there is always a way out.  “We call [this attitude of openness] ‘youbai youbaoyou’,” (有拜有保庇)“, It doesn’t matter if you believe in gods. If you pray, you’ll be blessed.” So, even the upscale Eslite Bookstore has a cosmological self-help section chock full of do-it-yourself fate-improvement guides.  People in the Chinese-speaking world seem particularly preoccupied with luck, from boarding gates to high-stakes baccarat tables and school exams to political races, (Even politicians are compelled to publicly try their luck, visiting temples to draw fortune sticks ...) yet while many countries have their own superstitions and rituals.  brief (Chinese: 為什麼台灣人重視轉運? 雖然許多國家都有迷信風俗，然而台灣從登機口到學校考試到政治選舉，人們似乎特別關注運氣，有時連政 客也被迫公開到寺廟抽籤試運。華盛頓大學 教授認為: 在中國人文化中有個普遍的想法，事情不是随機的，沉迷於過去的歷史使 “人們相信一切背後都有某種秩序”，即"天註定''，但同時，傳統信仰也認為，雖然 天命使臣民之間保持秩序，並進而維持和平，一些 位高權重的人為升斗小民人生製定了計劃，但小民仍想掌握自己命運，"有拜有保庇“，在台灣即使高檔的誠品書店都充斥著改運指南。 有個台灣人從台灣前往中國大陸的大華興寺，迷信認為將硬幣扔進一隻龍石雕的嘴中就會懷孕，不久後，他的妻子果然懷孕了，還是個男孩。 ) http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210210-chinas-enduring-obsession-with-luck  

★  BBC, 2021-4-14, Crisps have a sacred role in Taiwan's office culture.  ‘Kuai Kuai’,  this savoury product  end up assuming near-mythical protective properties... on or around vital machines in many of the island’s laboratories, banks and even hospitals to ensure the machines continue to do their jobs.   the crisps, whose name means ‘listen to me’ or ‘obey’, ‘behave’ or ‘be good’ in both Mandarin and Taiwanese...The bags also cannot be used as amulets beyond their expiration date, so...usually swapped twice a year –  Lunar New Year, and the Ghost Festival . Those in the tech world say the snack shouldn’t be consumed, otherwise you technically void its protective warranty.  Kuai Kuai can even be found at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s premier research institute. (Chinese: 在台灣，一種鹹味零食在辦公文化中具有神聖的作用，且呈現出近乎神話般的保護性，許多實驗室、銀行甚至醫院的重要機器也放置這種袋裝的“乖乖”，以確保高科技機器繼續運作。“乖乖”中文意思是''服從'，但食品到期後神奇功能便會消失，因此通常每年更換兩次-農曆新年初、及七月“鬼節”。而且科技界人士說，不要吃這種零食，否則其保護性也會失效。“乖乖”甚至出現在台灣首屈一指的研究機構: 中央研究院。bbc.com/worklife/article/20210414-the-good-luck-snack-that-makes-taiwans-technology-behave

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★ L.A. Times,  2022-7-31: 中 国的軍事威脅已經火燒眉毛、迫在眉睫，台灣人 只是集體"聳聳肩"，似乎很少人會"挑起眉毛"As tensions flare between the two superpowers — risking the worst crisis in the region in a quarter of a century — people in Taiwan appear by and large to be responding with a collective shrug...The threat of Chinese military action has loomed for so long that few seem to raise an eyebrow when Beijing lashes out, ca.news.yahoo.com/possible-pelosi-visit-elicits-shrugs-170042930.html 
 蔡英文的眉毛，似乎是很難揚起、 挑起的那種。及時宣布兵役改革也好呀? n新加坡李顯龍 (Aug., 2022): 'If we do not defend ourselves, no one is going to defend us on our behalf'. (如果我們不自我防衛，沒有人會來 幫我們防衛) nMiliatry, 2022-8-25: 防禦台灣需可信的軍力與動武的意願，遺憾的是美國兩黨缺乏共識

★  Reuters, 2021-4-16,  Global Times, 2020-10-22 

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