Sunflower Student Movement Case Study

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In this essay, I will focus on the community development in the Taiwan situation by using the Sunflower student movement. In the beginning part, I will introduce the background of the incident and the role of different stakeholders. Then, I will focus on talking about the short-term and long-term impact towards the communities and finally I will share my opinion towards this incident.

Introduction of the Sunflower student movement
In the March 18, the university students have occupied the Taiwan Legislative Yuen. The Legislative Yuen has been occupied for more than 20 days, and it ended in the April 10. Owing to the dominant of the university student towards the movement, and the sunflower has been the symbol of the movement, people called
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The society dissatisfy of the ruling party KMT for the decision of deviate public opinion. Also, the public criticize the opposition part DDP did not pay effort. The leader of the protesters starts participating in the politics. They form the political party, like the Taiwan March, Taiwan citizen union, New power party etc. Moreover, due to the dislike to the traditional political party, the citizen chose the amateur politician instead of the politics from the traditional political party. In the Taipei mayor election, Ko Wen-je won and he is the first non-party mayor. Due to the anger towards the ruling part, the floating voter vote for the DDP and thus, the DDP can get 13 Mayor in the Taiwan local election. The sunflower movement change the political environment of Taiwan, and it provide opportunity for the public to change the …show more content…
The idea of civic nationalism focused on the nation instead of the citizen. Some of the Taiwan civic nationalist believe that Taiwan will become better if the KMT fails. The civic nationalist thought the identity of the Taiwanese and democracy institution are equivalent important (Pan, 2015). Although the former President Ma insist the 1992 consensus, which is one Chine respective interpretations, the Taiwan citizen, especially the new generation do not agree that Taiwan is a part of China and thus they have great gap and mistrust to the Chinese

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