One of the things that I always found highly interesting since I moved to Taiwan is the way Taiwanese interact with each other. Communication, politeness, manners, and etiquette are so vastly different from what is common in my country that it took me quite a while to adapt to these new concepts. It's always very challenging to learn all the nuances of a new and so inherently different culture as an adult, because you're already heavily shaped by your own native culture. So to what extent can you really integrate the new values and norms with your own? That really depends from person to person, but for me it wasn't easy, because so many of them are in perfect contradiction with my own. During my early days I made a lot of mistakes, but I learned from them, and gradually improved. I hope that with this post I can offer a useful resource to future foreigners who will come to Taiwan.