The Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation has been working on promoting face equality in Taiwan for years. It believes that “everyone deserves to be treated fairly and kindly,” and this can begin with not judging others’ looks.
The foundation has been conducting surveys every three years since 2013 to observe how people’s looks affect how others treat them. This year, it collected more than 1,000 responses from Taiwanese people aged over 20. The result showed that around one in seven persons in Taiwan has been treated unfriendly because of their appearance. 13-15% of respondents had been mocked, given unwanted nicknames, or criticized based on their looks.
The good news is we saw remarkable progress as compared with ten years ago, showing that people in Taiwan are becoming aware of the importance of face equality.
多年來，陽光社會福利基金會（The Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation）持續在推動台灣「臉部平權」（face equality）運動。用他們的話來說，他們認為「每個人都有權利被公平且友善地對待」，而這件事可以從「不以外表評論他人」開始。
基金會從2013年開始，每三年就會做一次調查，觀察外表會如何影響他人對待一個人的態度。今年，他們收集了超過一千位20歲以上台灣人的回應來做統計。結果顯示，在台灣大約每七個人中，就有一個人因為外表而遭受到不友善的對待。大約有13%到15％的受訪者曾經因為外表的關係，被嘲笑、被取他們不想要的綽號、或是被批評。
好消息是，跟十年前相比，我們還是看到了顯著的進步。從調查結果的變化來看，顯示台灣民眾正逐漸意識到「臉部平權」的重要性。
deserve (v.) 是「值得、理應」的意思，後面可以直接接名詞、不定詞或是動名詞。但要注意的是，deserve會因為語境的不同，而有偏正面、或負面的意思。例如時常聽到的You deserve it，若是當同事因為完成了一個案子而獲得主管的讚揚時，說這句話代表恭賀他「這是你應得的！」；但當朋友不聽勸告、硬要挑戰蒙面騎腳踏車卻摔車時，這句話的意思則是「你活該！」
例句：
Full-time mothers deserve praise for devoting themselves to their families.
全職媽媽們全心全意為家庭奉獻，值得大力讚揚。