I (like many teachers) are on the side of honesty, documented history, accurate information, and fairness. Or you can say the only side I'm on is my side. In other words I do what I need to do to take care of myself and family. Through my posts on this site I try to help my fellow teachers (from whatever country) avoid hurt and harm.

One poster delightfully calls out the "laowei" as a self-centered individual who has delusions of royalty. First, to be a foreign teacher is the absolute anti-thesis of royalty. We know in any country our words and work will always come last to the local people. Secondly, we also know we have no protection from: attack, scam, identity theft, and other atrocities carried out under the front of culture. So actually yes one could correctly say "the poor laowei". However I don't consider myself poor as long as I can work and do an honestly good job with students who quite truthfully could care less about learning English or doing work for or in my class.

About Chinese creativity. Since you're so excited to waive the flag if China in the face of the world let's talk about this creativity: 45 million who were worked, starved, or beaten to death from 1958 to 1962 (a third of which who starved because their homes were turned into fertilizer), retribution for tiny thefts (such as a child stealing a potato) included being tied up and thrown into a pond; parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off, Tian An Men Square, and cannibalism during the Cultural Revolution. In FACT as many as 80 million died from unnatural deaths due the CREATIVE policies of the Communist Party. Journalists who try to speak out against the government in China are: imprisoned, murdered, their property seized, and their families can be imprisoned or murdered as well.

These historical FACTS have been recently uncovered by CHINESE scholars. Since YOU opened this Pandoras' box I hope YOU can take the fall-out. But please regale and delight me with the tales of "Chinese creativity".