Keep your head up bro. This is a very big world we live in. In the global world we are all connected and the things countries do will come back more quickly and bite them on the arse. If things don't ever change in our lifetime we can learn slowly but surely to move on with our lives and do bigger things than the people we left behind can ever imagine. While living for the better, we can all share our experiences so that we may find others who have had similiar experiences to lean on and provide support for one another as well as to show people who may not know much about this place what they should or shouldn't get themselves into. It is our responsibility now, and more power to us for having it.

This is something that I mulled over a lot during my final year in China, and ultimately,led to my decision to leave it all behind and begin life anew. I grew tired of amoral people telling me that my salary should be X amount as per the contract and all the ways they can cut it down, meanwhile the school leaders are driving shiny new Audis around and thousands of RMB for fancy dinners for next to no reason at all. Tired of being told it's wrong for a foreign teacher to have Chinese women in his apartment,because this is China (yes that old gambit!), yet all the chinese girls working in the office are wearing miniskirts that leave nothing to the imagination, the kind of clothing that would make a muslim cleric blush, and knocking shops all outside educational institutes. Just tired of the double standards, we are meant to respect their confucian system, but they don't respect ours!

The points you mentioned are perfectly valid, but will things ever change for the better?

I agree that charging the foreigners over double totally sucks. Sadly it's an all too common practice in China...