Maybe ask ipa that next time because she knows all about it.
Ipa. I-P-A.
As in Ipanema. "Ipa Chiu" is her full name.
Yeah, shortened to ipa.
Inspirational...
Yeah.
Maybe. Also there's this tendency to call Mandarin "Chinese". Instead of saying we speak Mandarin and write traditional Han characters, people would say that they speak "Traditional Chinese". Then it sounds very Chinese. [laughs]
I know, traditional English. Not simplified English. [laughs]
I know.
Yes. That's because there's a cultural layer that covers basically the Sinophone or even the Sinosphere, like people writing Kanji, literally the "Han characters". Anyone who uses the Han ideographic writing system could have called themselves Chinese... That's the thing. Because it used to be that the ideographic characters were used to make communication possible between seven or so very distinct languages .
The ideographic characters nowadays, of course people call it kanji or "Han characters" now, but for the longest time people would just call them "Chinese characters".
That's what kanji means?
I don't know. "Kan" refers to a dynasty. Anyway...
Technically, it means a dynasty and groups that identify with the dynasty's culture. You can also call a cultural group "Tang" or whatever. These are dynasty names.
Exactly.
Oh, wow. I see.
Nowadays the term "Chinese" has been re-politicized, that problem should solves itself real quickly.
Because we've been talking about gold card, we...
Gold cards. We discussed here actually quite recently because we're a new ministry. We may get to set -- if we want -- our gold card policies.
What kind of people should we give gold cards to.
Gold card.
Basically the idea is that, for example, the Ministry of Economic Affairs will look at your income level. Once you reach a certain income level, they grant you a gold card.
The National Science and Technology Council will hand you a gold card if you make research contributions, or they decided that running a startup counts as related to research, so they also hand out gold cards for successful entrepreneurs.
Between these two, now for moda, what kind of digital nomad should we hand gold cards to?
A small what?
I know... Isn't it like all bloggers are digital nomads?
I see. [laughs]
The Birthright program?
If you were born...
The Love Boat.
People who have one side of their parents came from Taiwanese origin?
Love Boat for everyone.
Free love.
Yes, of course. Instead of regulating hate speech, we would promote love speech.
We'll change the Twitter like button -- which is heart-shaped -- into love.
I don't know. Maybe new leadership?
The lab where the viralness came from. [laughs]
Do that.
Of course! Usually, we...
I'm sorry?
It's Creative Commons Zero, no copyright reserved. Do whatever. We say at most 10 days, but if you take just a couple days to finish editing, then feel free to tell us to publish sooner. Then you can put however you want.
I don't know. [laughs]
I don't think we talk anything that is trade secret or confidential. No.
Not international terrorism.
Tour for three weeks. Get your free gold card.
...it's a three-week group summer program.
Yeah, only a metaphor.
It's not a cruise thing.
