ESPRAT & My Passport Country

Humanities

1. What is the Economic (business) system? 

Our country's business system is separated to tree branches, Level 1 business, Level 2 business, Level 3 business.

Level 1 business: The people make money by their labor, they get the products by nature resource, 

Ex: agriculture, fishing, forestry. But now, this business become weak, because the young people go to

the big for working, and Taiwan added to the WTO is a big strike.

Level 2 business: The people make money by their technology, the Level 2 business is industry include manufacture

and construction. Ex:canned food industry.

Level 3 business: The people make money by their brain, like insurance, government, tourism, banking, retail, education, and social services. Ex: teacher, doctor, lawyer.

2. What does the Social system (daily life, classes, customs, etc.) look like?

Daily life: 1. Monogamy, you just can have one wife or husband. 2. To respect for seniority, you may respect to the

people who oder then you. 3.The sexual equality.

Classes: There is no classes in my social system, everyone is equality before the law.

Customs:In lunar calendar there is three important customs in Taiwan.

(1) Chinese New Year (Eve), at this day we will got some money from our families.

(2) Dragon Boat Festival, on this day we will have Dragon Boat race, and we will eat many Steamed rice dumpling.

(3) Moon Festival: On this day every company will give some gift to their personnel. 

3. What is the Political (government) system? Who has the power?

The government are divide by 5 branches, such as highest level of the executive branch, Legislative Yuan.

The Examination Ministry or Examination Yuan, the judiciary,The Control Yuan.

And the people have the power. And everyone is  equally.

4. What are the Religions? Describe them in detail.

There is no main religions in our country.

Religion	Members	% of total population	Temples & churches
Buddhism (佛教) (including Tantric Buddhism)	8,086,000	35.1%	4,006
Taoism (道教)	7,600,000	33.0%	18,274
I-Kuan Tao (一貫道)	810,000	3.5%	3,260
Protestantism (基督新教)	605,000	2.6%	3,609
Roman Catholic (天主教)	298,000	1.3%	1,151
Lord of Universe Church (天帝教)	298,000	1.3%	50
Maitreya Great Tao (彌勒大道)	250,000	1.1%	2,200
Tian De Jiao (天德教)	200,000	0.9%	14
Liism (理教)	186,000	0.8%	138
Syuan Yuan Jiao (軒轅教)	152,700	0.7%	22
Islam (伊斯蘭教)	58,000	0.3%	6
Tenrikyo (天理教)	35,000	0.2%	153
Universe Maitreya Emperor Jiao (宇宙彌勒皇教)	35,000	0.2%	12
Hai Zih Dao (亥子道)	30,000	0.1%	55
Confucianism (儒學)	26,700	0.1%	139
Church of Scientology (山達基教會)	20,000	<>	7
Bahá'í Faith (巴哈伊教)	16,000	<>	13
Jehovah's Witnesses (耶和華見證人)	6,223	<>	85
The Chinese Heritage and Mission Religion (玄門真宗)	5,000	<>	5
Zhonghua Sheng Jiao (中華聖教)	3,200	<>	7
Mahikarikyo (真光教團)	1,000	<>	9
Pre-cosmic Salvationism (先天救教)	1,000	<>	6
Huang Zhong (黃中)	1,000	<>	1
Da Yi Jiao (大易教)	1,000	<>	1
Total religious population	18,724,823	81.3%	33,223
Total population	23,036,087	100%	-

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Taiwan  

5. What are the various Arts (especially those your nation is known for)?

We can express our creativity by(1) personal, Ex: gallery, (2) to match by private or public.

The painting, photo, glass arts( famous in Hsinchu), are the artwork in this society.

The most famous sports in Taiwan are basketball and baseball.

Cheongsam is the traditions dress in China, but we don't often see that in Taiwan.

6. What are various Technologies that are a part of life in your country?

There are different technologies in every occupation, like accountant, doctor, teacher, machinist, architect.

7. How does Geography affect ESPRAT in your home country?

The Geography affect the economic, Ex:we has sea around our country, so some people's work fishing,

and some people framing in the plain, and plaint the tea in the hill.