Hi there, my name is Charles Wu and every once in a while, I write about some of my recent thoughts or projects.

I am Taiwanese.

Posted: March 23rd, 2010 | Author: Charles Wu | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: |

Bored and nostalgic, but mainly bored, I went over some footage my dad took for last Summer’s trip to China and Taiwan. I decided to turn that boredom into a cause for good: proving my legitimacy as a 100% Taiwanese-born-American. Why does that matter? Oh, you don’t need to watch a video to believe in my rightful Taiwanese heritage? Great, this isn’t for you. This is for the others. Some people don’t believe this truth; shucks, some people don’t even believe I’m Asian (I’ve gotta be at least half, right?). How outrageous!

So, if you could sit back, relax, and take two minutes of your time to convince yourself of this fact, I think both of us will benefit greatly.


Actually, more than anything, I just wanted to check out the quality of the Canon Vixia HG20 my dad shot with. No hard feelings to all the doubters. The cool thing is that this isn’t even the best this camera can do; this video was only shot on its 2nd lowest video quality setting (out of 5). It makes me excited for my next video project, which will probably be a little more God-honoring :)

I am Taiwanese, though.

8 Comments on “I am Taiwanese.”

  1. Jay
    1 Jay said at 2:31 am on March 23rd, 2010:

    Is this for funsies or is for a class (art250?). good stuff. what’d you edit the globe graphic with?

  2. Bill Ren
    2 Bill Ren said at 4:00 am on March 23rd, 2010:

    china > taiwan

    There is no ssuch thing as taiwanese, they are run away chinks

  3. Charles Wu
    3 Charles Wu said at 12:18 pm on March 23rd, 2010:

    Thanks Jay, this was just for funsies. If you wanna check out something I did for class, the post before this talks about a mustards seeds video I made :)

    The globe graphic is actually just an iMovie 09 effect. They actually have a bunch of maps you can choose from that has that effect, which I thought was pretty pointless until now lol.

    Bill, I used to think that (more or less), but not anymore. Taiwan is a totally different nation with a different culture. If being departed from another country keeps a people from being a different nation, what about America? Are we just ‘British’?

    I’m not that adamant about it though, much love to China nahimsayin.

  4. Teyu
    4 Teyu said at 5:59 pm on March 23rd, 2010:

    wait, so Bill’s comment is supposed to prove China>Taiwan? I love the irony. Ignorant kid.

  5. Teyu
    5 Teyu said at 6:03 pm on March 23rd, 2010:

    I still don’t believe you Charles.

  6. Elana
    6 Elana said at 8:23 am on March 24th, 2010:

    LOL… love the pandas… and love that you had to make a movie to prove it… ha

  7. Oliver Peng
    7 Oliver Peng said at 2:00 am on March 26th, 2010:

    The movie proves nothing ;) and I could use some good Taiwanese street food right now…

    love how the comment sections turned political haha!

  8. Jeff
    8 Jeff said at 5:54 pm on April 2nd, 2010:

    hahahaha. nicely done. you got me convinced. i love the “i practiced my chinese a lot” part– aunt: “blahblahblah.” charles: *nodnod.

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