Taiwan was where my father was born, where it was still a third world country when he was born in 1959, to after he left in 1973 to escape from the Taiwanese military draft. When the Japanese took over Taiwan during World War II, it began to help modernize them Taiwan, but it stopped after the Japanese signed the surrender treaty (Hays). The people who lived in Taiwan still lived in wooden houses, traveled by rickshaw or animals, and still had rice farmers (though there are still today). A few years after World War II had passed, Taiwan started to modernize itself without the help of the Japanese (World War II). For example, there were more cars that were driven around, they started to export goods after the first industries were formed, and…