My understanding is that anti-Japanese sentiment in Taiwan is not as strong as in other former Japanese possessions, because of its status as a “model colony”. For example, doing the same thing with a Korean music video would probably be very offensive.

What’s lost of the anime in that pastiche? What’s lost of the music video?

My translation of the description for Africa is somewhat different: Mom says if I don’t finish the meal I’d be sent here (not the meal). It’s a common strategy to intimidate children to finish their meals (otherwise they’d be as unfortunate as those children who cannot afford to eat).

As for Alaska, I don’t know why it’s called paradise. I’d put ‘penguins’ or ‘polar bears’ instead of ‘paradise’ there.

Thanks for the youtube links. I finally understand why the India is labelled that way. If I were to label it I’d say 印度阿三, meaning ‘Indian dudes’.

Thanks to Lynn for the further clarifications and corrections!

First of all is an answer to the question you posted about the Pineapple Bun Sea. It’s called that because we translate Baltic Sea into “bo-lo-te” sea, and since it makes no sense to us with just the pronunciation translated, we might as well call it the bo-lo bread sea then (jokingly), with bo-lo bread a type of bread (the pineapple bun).

Second is a slight correction about translation of the Vietnam areas. The
Chinese is actually something like: “These countries look the same to me” instead of “some OK countries”. For a lot of people, these countries seem to be places that are cheap enough for a graduation trip, but otherwise we have no idea what’s what.

Third is answers to two comments.
Persian cats are blond babes because we all “know” that Russia exports beautiful blond babes, and they also export persian cats. So that’s why people call these beauties Persian cats.
And Korea is infamous for claiming that most Chinese traditions are invented by them, most traditional holidays were also invented by them, most famous historian people are actually Koreans, and so on and so forth.

Last but not least is a reply to the famous Michael Turton, who’s blog I read on a daily basis ^__^. A lot of Taiwanese, including myself, do not really view the whole of America as just guns and blacks and place with no culture. We ironically say that the US is the “world police” and we all know that the war on Iraq is a war for oil, and that Bush is trying to pwn the world. The US is infamous for not signing the Tokyo contract, and for selling us weapons while stopping us from changing the “status quo” of the Taiwan Strait. As for Alaska, I quote what my grandma says all the time: “It’s a place I must visit before I die! All the northern lights and spectacular glaciers!!” and what my friends say: “If I’m going abroad for my honeymoon, I’m going to Alaska or Hawaii!” So that explains “heaven”, though I won’t name it that way, but as merely a must-go-or-regret place.

Also, the India thing is not a Bollywood reference at all, but to the infamous Daler Mendhi vid “Tunak Tunak Tun (Da Da Da)”.

Why is “Persian cats” translated as blonde girls?

But anyway…Funnny! Thanks for sharing!