Taiwanese Culture Related To American Culture

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I appreciate your discussion related to the Taiwanese culture. I’m a product of first generation of immigrants from India. Fortunately, my family was very well off in the Indian community. My mom’s side family has many connections with the rulers of their times and my dad’s family had highly educated members. Since India was under a British rule for many years, my dad and his sibling education was mainly completed in England or under the British rule. Having this type of educational background my family was in my dad’s mind destined to migrate to England for his children’s education. However, God has other plans, instead of migrating to England we migrated to the United States and became citizens. As you stated, ‘People in society

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