Sam_6_I
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Street and Elm Street issue really recalls me to some disputations about landmark-naming in Taiwan. Like recently, renaming the Chiang kai-shec Memorial Hall(CKS), became a big issue in the political arena in Taiwan. By now the memorial hall renamed as National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall. However, what I can see is the name changing process cost so much for the society, the attention of the media. The gap between Blue & Green party was deepen by another political manipulation.
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posted by Sam @ 12:37 AM
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Thanks for your comment Sam. It's always interesting to see that issues Americans think of as specifically American are in reality universal.
During my freshmen year, or maybe sophomore year, Muncie underwent a Martin Luther King Blvd. renaming and all of the decades old pain and, to put it bluntly, ignorant hatred was revisited. In the end the renaming issue was resolved, but many parties were presumably hurt by the process and lines were drawn in the community again. It is interesting to see that something similar just occurred in Taiwan.
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