Haha it's amusing when you accuse me of being racist, you must feel that I'm using the old White Man's Burden argument and that I've always looked down on chinese people or wanted a reason to, nothing could be further from the truth!

I will spare the novel that is my life of how I've always wanted to visit and work in china and how I took it upon myself to learn chinese to the point of fluency, not that you care. It was my time working in china that turned my world upside down. The chinese are the most socio-economic obsessed group of people I have ever met! This goes hand in hand with racism which most of them practice as well! All of the ugly adjectives you accused me of being would be a much much better description towards the local Chinese.

The last training center I worked at, a Chinese American commented how embarrassing it was for him to make a salary that was 25 percent lower than that of a fellow white faced teacher who wasn't as good at teaching. Why don't you call him racist as well?

I want to treat everyone equally, I expect respectable and civil behavior in return. This does not include prying into someone's personal life for personal gain, dumping on others to promote a certain political agenda, promoting barbaric behavior such as child abuse and sexism, and a general disrespect for boundaries including taking other people's possessions without asking them. I have unfortunately experienced all of these living in china. I have also met a few good people who were both expats and chinese whom I still keep in contact with.

Your problem is you're not willing to step into other people's shoes and think even for a second that another person's life might be different from yours. What only matters are the things that you yourself have experienced. I know for a fact that a majority of Chinese think like this as well, which leads to tripe and nonsense replacing compassion and empathy. But you're amongst folks who think like you, so no wonder you're so grateful and comfortable. I will tell you it's got nothing to do with me. I prefer to spend time with people who are more reciprocal no matter what they look like.

You would be surprised at how many ethnic Chinese people who have immigrated to other countries do not think about China on such favorable terms. Having both read and spoken with some of these people you might be calling them the KKK or Aryan Nationiites! LOL!