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Volume 82 – No. 3

The Development of Civility in Taiwan

David C. Schak

DOI: 10.5509/2009823447

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Since the 1990s Taiwan has seen rapid and profound changes in public sphere deportment, labelled below as civility. Prior to that time, despite a government campaign beginning in the 1960s to improve public morality and behaviour, there was little if any change until democratization and the growth of civil society were underway. Aside from better treatment of strangers and caring for public spaces and facilities, the changes include identity shifts from subject to citizen and from belonging to a closed, primordial community to membership in the Taiwan polity, movements which empower minority political interests and benevolent government interactions with the populace. These changes indicate a democratization in Taiwan that has taken root not only at the government level but also at the grass roots.

Le Processus de la civilité à Taïwan

Taïwan a vécu depuis les années 90 une transformation profonde et rapide dans le comportement des citoyens dans la sphère publique, définie comme civilité. Avant cette période, malgré une campagne gouvernementale qui débuta dans les annés 60 afin d’améliorer le comportement et les attitudesn des citoyens dans le domaine du public, il y eut peu de résultats sinon aucun, cela jusqu’à l’avènement de la démocratisation et de l’expansion de la société civile. Hormis un meilleur accueil aux étrangers et un entretien soigné des lieux publics et de leurs infrastructures, les changements s’étendirent à une transformation identitaire du sujet au citoyen, ainsi que l’appartenance à une communauté fermée et archaïque pour l’adhésion aux politiques taïwanaises, au travers de mouvements qui donnèrent plus de pouvoir aux intérêts politiques des minorités, ainsi que par des interactions gouvernementales bienfaisantes avec le peuple. Ces changements témoignent d’une démocratisation qui a pris racine à Taïwan, non seulement au niveau gouvernemental mais aussi au niveau du peuple.

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