With the fast-pace development of globalization, the importance of English teaching in Taiwan has been over-emphasized. While importance is attached on global English teaching and learning, the cultural politics of locality and subjectivity seems to be downplayed or ignored. This paper aims to probe, in terms of Roland Robertson’s “glocalization, ” into a variety of ethical and cultural issues as revealed in English teaching in Taiwan. Three aspects will be examined: (1 ) global-cultural flows and local subjectivity; (2) the cultural myth of English teaching in Taiwan and the politics of locality; (3) the cultural crisis engendered by the debasement of Chinese and the cultural hegemony of English as a global language.