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CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

Notes &

-22: You are your own garbage man in Taiwan, with help from Beethoven

Fur Elise, blasted from blown speakers of Taiwanese garbage trucks, is your cue as a home or business owner to scurry to the street with the day’s trash and recycling in tow.

The trucks generally appear to be the same type used in America, but here, they travel slow enough for each resident to wind up and swiiiing their heavy bags into the gaping bin.

Taiwanese and expatriates alike learn to enjoy the nightly classical siren, audible through all walls and windows.


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