[quote]I am sure you have met as I have degenerate FT that are here using their differences to take as much from this country and give back as little as they can. Many of them can be found at the bars complaining about everything Chinese then in the next breath ask where the girls are.[/quote]

I haven't, actually. But maybe that's because I do not visit bars. I drink in my apartment. Drinking in bars in China is an expensive pastime. Of course, alcohol tends to free one from one's inhibitions. Then what one really thinks will come out. I can imagine how boring it would be to listen to the rantings of foreigners in a Chinese bar. Bad enough in a western bar back home, too many drunken morons there too!

I remember running into a group of 50 year old who were behaving as if they were in their 20s. One fella in particular struck me as gross;y immature and I recall thinking to myself how sad it was that this guy acted the way he did and was a representative of Foreign people in this country.

Yes, we are role models for western society when we are here, though some of us don't want to be. But the Chinese are their own worst enemies. They shouldn't be so naive as to base their opinions of western society on the pathetic antics of just one or two western morons. You may blame that narrow-minded attitude on the failings of the Chinese education system, which doesn't focus on encouraging students to use their intelligence or learn anything of use about the world outside of China. However, I'm not here as an ambassador for the west. Plenty of faults there too. I try to behave responsibly wherever I am, but not because I wish to please others. I don't care about doing that. Behaving responsibly is being mature, that's the reason I behave reasonably well in public.

No wonder the Chinese have such a low opinion of foreigners when they see this guy as a typical example.

I don't give a damn what kind of opinion the Chinese have of me, or of foreigners as a whole, for that matter. I just want to do my job, take my pay, and enjoy myself by spending it on my favorite things. Of course I have a low opinion of certain social classes of Chinese here. You'll not be surprised to learn it's not of the lower classes.

Finally, it's true one or two posters have been saying it's okay for male foreign teachers to sleep with girl students whom they don't teach, but not in this thread. I agree with you that that's the behaviour of a degenerate. But some would say I'm old-fashioned! Surprisingly, nobody replied to those posts. Apathy, I guess!

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