Alan. You made a good point. What do you think about people here correcting English to none-speakers who are just making a point? It sounds like if you are in Canada and go to a fast-food place to a buy anything and the cashier perfectly understands what you want, but has to lecture you of the correct English cuz after all English is one of the official languages of Canada. Your comments very appreciated. Sam, I'm a Chinese from TW againts all discrimations.

> you wrote:
> "Anyway, our university has decided against hiring any more
> Africans. Once bitten twice shy."

> ...is that smart? is your school generalizing that all africans speak
> bad english?
> africa is a big continent of over maybe 30some countries (not just
> cameroon).
> do you expect out of so many nations that all africans speak bad
> english?

> will your school hire africans from other african nations? or was the
> twice bitten lesson enough to simply discriminate against all people
> from africa, who apply to teach english at your
> "university."

> my gut feeling tells me it's just a ready excuse to prevent hiring
> africans or african americans..."blacks" as termed by
> asians, from teaching the "queens" english to
> "non-black" asian people.

> believe me sister, very few people speak that level of english
> "queens level"...white or black. although my own ears have
> heard people from africa speak very clear british english. (and they
> were black) (^_^)

> ...but the biggest news is, most "blacks" who do speak very
> good english haven't much interest to teach english in traditionally
> racist countries.

> why would anyone?

> countries like, hmmm let's go down the list...japan, korea and china.

> well, the whole ESL industry seems a big joke in the world today.
> discrimination, bigotry, and corruption seem to be the keywords to
> describe the quality of such an industry.

> i know....i've been there and done that. even been made aware in
> class one time, that i was "black".

> english teaching is not my professional or real skill, though i was
> able to teach because of my so-called good clear english.

> i once remember while in asia, an englishman mentioned to me, that
> the people want to learn english from my mouth, but would prefer i
> had his white face.

> enough said.

> With all due respect, I'm a fourth year student in China and will be