Taiwan - Taipei Street Scenes, Junior High Mural

Passed this mural on the street one day...looks like it was on the campus of a junior high school.  The theme here embodies the still-innocent culture among the youngsters of the island.  Put something like this on the wall of the junior high in the U.S. and it would be totally defaced, if not destroyed, within a month.

And it is so, so different being in Taiwan around this relative innocence and respect on a school campus.  Remember vividly how amazed I was at some of the things I witnessed in the Houston area teaching on a jr high campus for the first time - the things kids were allowed to get away with and the tolerance of blatant disrespect were shocking.

So it is always a salve to my soul to simply be in a place where children demonstrate real respect for teachers and parents.  And where, by extension, the crime rate is so low and fear is virtually absent when walking down a street, even at night, in any part of the city.