8:03 pm - 02/19/2013
On TLC's three-part special, 19 Kids & Counting: Duggars Do Asia, the Duggar family -- yes, all of them -- leave Arkansas behind to taste the offerings of the Far East. And by tasting, we mean getting freaked out by scorpions on a stick and learning to roll their own sushi.
"It was scary!" says matriarch Michelle Duggar. "Their toilets were very different," observes another family member.
Can they find enough rickshaws to transport them all? Do geisha outfits come in extra-tall sizes? Check out this exclusive sneak peek of the special to see how the family fares in China and Japan:
The 19 Kids & Counting: Duggars Do Asia three-part special kicks off on Tuesday, March 12 at 9/8c on TLC.
Hannibal
The Duggars Invade China and Japan!
On TLC's three-part special, 19 Kids & Counting: Duggars Do Asia, the Duggar family -- yes, all of them -- leave Arkansas behind to taste the offerings of the Far East. And by tasting, we mean getting freaked out by scorpions on a stick and learning to roll their own sushi.
"It was scary!" says matriarch Michelle Duggar. "Their toilets were very different," observes another family member.
Can they find enough rickshaws to transport them all? Do geisha outfits come in extra-tall sizes? Check out this exclusive sneak peek of the special to see how the family fares in China and Japan:
The 19 Kids & Counting: Duggars Do Asia three-part special kicks off on Tuesday, March 12 at 9/8c on TLC.
Hannibal
(interestingly, my taiwanese friend insists that a lot of taiwanese people aren't as bitter towards japan as korea and china are, because according to him, when japan came, they saw nothing really to take over and demolish because taiwan had no distinct culture or anything of note - i find that hard to believe, but i'm not exactly a scholar on taiwanese history - and so they were a lot less forceful/harsh with taiwan than they were with korea. i can't say how accurate my friend is tho.)
I had a Taiwanese friend who said he wasn't bitter about Japan, but a mutual friend from mainland China was quite vocal about her dislike with Japan. Then again, she hated everyone.
I know less about Taiwanese history than I should but I think that the Kuomintang wasn't initially much better at running the place than the Japanese and the Japanese weren't as brutal in Taiwan as they were in China or Korea . . . so while I wouldn't say the feelings are warm and fuzzy, it's maybe not so bad as the Japan/China or Japan/Korea relationship.
Can't say the same for my Korean friends.
I may not have this right because I only learned about it in a non-educational way when I was 14, but some Korean descendents would be forced to go to a Korean school where they were not allowed to speak Japanese or enter other Japanese schools. A Korean school was having a festival there and I was blindsided by some young reporters wanting my opinion on this as I am obviously American. I had literally been in the country for a few days and had no flipping clue that this was a thing Japan did. Note: I really am not knowledgeable on this so if anyone can correct me, please do.
On the other hand, that's sorta true tho since the Japanese did a lot of fucked up stuff back then.
That's not to say the same about the other countries tho...