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LETTERS: Genius Ma knows dogs

One brilliant stroke of political genius in Taipei has recently come to our attention.

President-elect Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) recently remarked on the differences between the behavior of stray dogs in Taipei and in rural areas he visited during his “long stay” project.

Ma claimed that Taipei city dogs recognize and observe traffic lights, whereas dogs from rural areas run red lights.

Ma’s comment may have been a joke to entertain his elementary school friends at their reunion, but was he so blinded by his own recent election victory that he forgot that dogs are color-blind?

The remark was not unsimilar to his comment to a group of Aborigines in Sindian, Taipei County, during his campaign. “I treat you as human-beings,” Ma said. On that occasion, he seemed uniformed that Aboriginal people are just as human as Han Chinese.

In Ma’s mind, no doubt, there lurks a paradigm of superiority versus inferiority that leaps out at will.

It was therefore not surprising that a gentleman sitting next to Ma when he made the canine comment quipped that city dogs were more obedient than rural dogs thanks to Ma’s exact execution of the law during his terms as Taipei mayor, even demanding that dogs shape up.

That gentleman was quick-witted and knew that his fawning response would highlight Ma’s joke and please him greatly.

An excellent example of brown-nosing.

Yang Chunhui

Salt Lake City, Utah
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