臺中舉辦稀有姓名的活動
Taichung hosts event for people with uncommon last names

Hey Jacob, do you know what the most common last name in Taiwan is?

Uhh… is it Lin?

No, Lin is number 2!

Well, number one must be Chen, right?!

Right! Chen is the most common last name in Taiwan, and about 11% of people
in Taiwan have that last name.

And numbers three, four, and five are Huang, Zhang, and Li.

Together, those five names take up about 36% of the whole population of
Taiwan. 36%台灣人姓其中一個這些最常見的姓：陳、林、黃、張和李。

But what we don't know as much about are the very rare last names.

Taichung recently held an event for people with some of those last names.

It was meant for participants to explore the origins (來源) of those rare
names and to help them make new connections with each other.

Former Taichung Deputy Mayor Linghu Jung-da (臺中前副市長令狐榮達) said that
the 100 most common last names in Taiwan make up over 96% of the population.

That means, there's only 4% left over for the other names.

Linghu organized the event.

He said that he started to be interested in this topic because his own last
name is quite rare.

More than 80 people attended the event.

Some of the surnames included were Chuko (諸葛)...that's 諸葛亮的諸葛...

Tsun (寸)... that's 寸土的寸...

So (索)... which is 索取的索...

Sheng (繩)... like 沖繩的繩...

and Yen (鄢)... which is like 中國河南省鄢陵的鄢.

Participants talked about family stories and their ancestral heritage (祖先).

Data shows that Taiwan has 1785 last names total.

And the top ten take up more than half of the population.

And the ones that aren't so common?

For some of them, only one person has them!

For example there is only one person each with the last name Pa
(八)...七八九的八...and Chang (唱) like 唱歌的唱 in Taiwan.

There's also over one hundred last names in Taiwan that only two people have,
like Ju (入) as in 入口的入...
and Hsia (下), which is 下車的下.
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In this episode's bite-sized break, we hear from 13-year-old Ivy from Yushan
Junior High School in Chiayi City.

***BITE-SIZED BREAK***
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德國將貢獻十億美金 協助照顧納粹大屠殺的生還者
Germany to give over $1 billion for Holocaust survivors in the next year

Maybe some of our listeners have heard about the Holocaust (納粹大屠殺) in
school.

It happened a long time ago, but many victims (受害者) of the Holocaust are
still alive today.

There's an organization called the Claims Conference.

They help victims of the Holocaust to get compensation (賠償) from Germany.

Recently, Germany announced that it would give more than 1 billion US dollars
to pay for Holocaust survivors' home care around the world.

That's more than they have given in the past.

The Claims Conference says that the average age (平均年齡) of Holocaust
survivors that get home care right now is 88.

Many of them have complicated health problems, like Alzheimer's disease,
Parkinson's disease, and dementia.

目前許多生還者罹患一些棘手的慢性疾病，例如阿?海默症、帕金森氏症和失智症。

There's another group of people that will also be able to receive home care.

They're called "Righteous rescuers."

That's a group of people that are not Jewish, but risked their lives to save
Jewish people during the Holocaust.

除了大屠殺生還者以外，還有另外一個團體會收到金錢援助；就是志願的拯救人員。這些人不是猶太人，但還是幫助援救猶太受害者。

And there will also be money to pay for Holocaust education.

Experts say that there is less awareness (意識) about the Holocaust and more
and more antisemitism (反猶太主義), so it's very important to keep teaching
about the Holocaust.

This money will be used to train teachers, do research to learn more, and use
new forms of media- like movies and VR- to teach people about the Holocaust.

Experts say it's very important to invest in (投資) Holocaust education while
there are still survivors alive today who can share their experiences.

The Claims Conference said before that there are about 200,000 Holocaust
survivors still alive today.

One Holocaust survivor who is part of the Claims Conference is called Colette
Avital.

She says that it's very meaningful that, even 80 years after the Holocaust
ended, the German government still keeps its responsibility (持續負責任) to
care for people who suffered during that time.
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Recap

So, in today's News Bites:

Taichung hosts an event for people with uncommon last names.

Some of the rare last names at the gathering included Chuko, Sheng, and So.
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And,

Germany agrees to contribute to Holocaust survivors' long-term care.

Many survivors of the Holocaust are getting older.

They may need special care at home for some diseases.
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News Flash

In today's News Flash, our vocab word is "to contribute."

That's a verb, but we can also say "contribution."

"To contribute" means to give something like money so that some goal can be
achieved.

Like in the news story, we talk about how the German government is
contributing to Holocaust survivors' long-term care.

And "contribute" is called 貢獻 in Mandarin.

And now you know!

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