Home Blog Shared House Guide Don’t get caught making these mistakes, quick stater guide to taiwan etiquette.
Having lived in Taiwan almost a decade ago and recently taken my first trip back to North America you can't help but being hit with a wave of culture shock , so to avoid making similar mistake here ,this is a quick guide.
Travel doesn't just show you new places—it holds up a mirror to the way you’ve lived your entire life.
When you spend your whole life in one country, you subconsciously accept your hometown’s habits as the global default. You assume subway platforms are naturally loud, that eating a sandwich on a morning train is universal, and that public street bins are just a basic law of physics.
It isn't until you step off a plane in a place like Taiwan—fresh off a trip from cities like Toronto, Vancouver, or New York—that your perspective shifts dramatically. You might subconciosly assume that all big cities behave the same way so people etiquette is also the same. However after a few trial and errors you realize that what one country views as normal, another views as chaotic. Conversely, what looks at first glance like a restrictive set of rules in Taiwan is actually a deeply intentional system designed to make life cleaner, safer, and infinitely more peaceful for millions of people living closely together.
Traveling opens up your life because it forces you to stop asking "Why do they do it like that?" and start asking "What can I learn from this way of living?"
