about me self (ie neouto). i was born in taiwan a chinese speaking country that is on unfriendly terms with china. i lived there for the first 12 years of my life then i move to Gold Coast, Australia to study. I stayed in australia until my return to taiwan on the october 20th 2006, except a year of exchange study in japan. I am now 28 years old. i speak all three languages, english, chinese and japanese.
moving on, about my education background,
i was a doctoral candidature with university of queensland, my research area was on the political economy of japan and taiwan.
i also have,
master of international relation and asian politics from university of queensland,
bachelor of international business from Griffith university, and
diploma of business studies from Russo institute of technology
to some of u who ask, why do i call my self neouto?
the following is my response to the above question asked a few years back.
Its neo and utopian
Before u start thinking that i believe in fairiesIn the last 100 years, our life expectancy almost doubled and for people from the developing countries, life expectancy more than doubled. If there is an index of happiness than life expectancy has got to be the most fundamental and the most universal indication of happiness. According to our life expectancy we are almost 2 times happier.
Ok let me put it this way.
If you go in to any pub, 100 years ago and say 100 years later any of the fallowing will happen people will think you are crasy:
“France and Germany will be using the same currency and they will be in the process of forming a supranational entity”
“Japan and many other developing countries and develop countries will see their life expectancy almost doubled or more then doubled”
“Peace without a foreseeable war between developed countries”
In fact, if you describe almost any aspect of modern life to anyone 100 years ago, they will think you are a fairy believing utopian.
We are living in that utopia.
i believe a better world is not only possible, but it is at least as probable as the progress we made since 1900s. Depending on whom you read, things have never look better.
For a rosy yet realistic view of the world try “the skeptical environmentalist: measuring the real state of the world” by Bjorn Lomborg
But before u start believing in fairies, there is still a daunting room for improvement in our still rather crude world. the last time i check 50% of the world population have purchasing power of less than US$2, thats about the underdeveloped southern hemisphere].
thats it for my self introduction to the wordpress community.
p.s. my last english blog is with blogger, wordpress.com is so much better except for the lack of free template customization.
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INTRO
現在University of Queenslandで日本と台湾の政治経済研究している博士候補です(休学中）
僕は
歌うのが好きやけど、
友達中で音痴と有名
映画命なのに、
俺が描いた猫は人面犬に見える
３．５か国語を喋れるけど、
母国語はちょっと微妙らしい
自称現実的で真実を見る男だけど、
ゲームの非現実な世界に夢中
まぁ矛盾している人生な訳ですよ
ところで、俺の日本語ちょっと可笑しいでしょう
言語障害じゃなくって
外国人です、台湾生まれオーストラリア育ちです
PHOTO
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NAME
僕の名前も色色あります
お母さんにはビンハンって呼ばれる
僕の友達は僕の事スティーブンって呼ぶ
初めでの語学学校の先生にとっては俺はティームだ
パスポート上はHSIEH Ping－Hanって書いてある。
サイバーの世界はneoutoがNeo*utO
ゲームの世界の世界はさらにヤヤコシイ
Kofia, Ilsima、Rashamoon、Dawyn または Betrix
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BLOG
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以下のブログもよろしく！！
Global Standard
色色（日本語だけのブログです、ネオウトより明るいで感じ）
OTHERS
っあ！
そういえば
もし僕みたいにくだらない事が好きなら
俺との恋愛相性テストもやってみて
１００％の相性がでたら是非結婚お願いします
じゃじゃ、ではでは
READING
[I think I am a neoutopian because I believe a better world is not only possible, but it is at least as probable as the progress we made since 1900s. Depending on whom you read, things have never look better.]
Call me a cynist, but utopian is a far fetch world from the one we are living in now. I believe that utopia is not only a world with good economic progress or the improvement in standard of living,but as well as peace and harmony, equality and spiritual contentment.
This,perhaps prove utopian to be impossible.
thank you for your comment,
“peace and harmony, equality and spiritual contentment.”
In the past 60 years, no developed democracies has had a war with one another, so at least with in a circle of states relationships are very peaceful and stable.
I am not forgetting about the rest of the world where many states are in war, but the historic trend suggest that more and more states will join the ranks of developed democracies and expand this circle of peaceful states.
your other criteria are in my opinion subjective and debatable.
“spiritual contentment”
is this meant to suggest that an ideal society has to have a religious component? or was it meant to mean something else?
like being generally happy or something.
“equality”
a market economy is pretty much by definition unequal.
in most cases market forces will reward people depending on the value of their contribution to the society. This is a discriminating process where some people will be rewarded with more, some with less, but on the whole everyone in the society should end up living better.
however, where market forces fails corrections will be made by representative governments (where everyone gets equal amount of power). This system ensure equality, if it does not its only because people choose not to vote and forfeit their right to equality.
“harmony”
Depending on what you mean by harmony, but i think most developed democracies has never been this harmonious. Crime rates are incredible low if you compare it with what it use to be 100 years ago. In fact if your take a historic perspective, its hard to argue that our lives are not getting better almost all the time.
it’s quite interesting how different people defines “spiritual contentment” “equality” “harmony”.
In my opinion:
1. Spiritual contentment does not have to be religious. It should be the personal joy in one’s existence. It does not mean that I am a Buddhist or perhaps a Christian, I would have the spiritual contentment. It should come internally from oneself, the worth that one feel for living.
2. Equality. Does discrimination equal to equality? Does free market economy really ensures that people are living better? Are people too caught up in the paper/rat chase that some are not being “equal” to others?
3. Harmony could not occur with discrimination. Yet, discrimination occurs from prejudice. Why causes prejudice then? The difference in people. Be it the colour of our skin, hair, eyes or our thinking, belives, iq,eq…. With prejudice, would there be total harmony?
Yes, I do agree that statistics show that our lives are getting better. However, the statistics have loopholes. They do not reflect the intrinsic values in life. We could only infer them from ironically the cold hard data. Yet, I believe that an utopian society does include the intrinsic aspects of human life.
Yo Steve!
Nice Blog Dou!
Cool man!
Let’s go Sing KTV next time man!
Later,
Peace Out!
Peter XD