Colin please point out the "hatred" you are referring to, and I will point out to you that I have done nothing but inform potential applicants to the teaching position in luoding just what they are in for upon arrival. Perhaps you would prefer that I describe luoding as some sort of utopia. I understand that dogooders have serious issues with others pointing out the truth. That is too bad as I will not be silenced by the thought police. Perhaps you should take up the offer in luoding and after a couple of weeks you can come back here and apologise for accusing me of being a "bigot". You will not find any intelligent foreigners to "drive away any thoughts of homesickness" as the intelligent ones leave. Maybe in your next conversation with Alison you could ask her how many teachers they have had in the last 12 months and what happened to them. Currently there is only one foreign teacher at the college, he has been there just 4 months and has already been fired. So you can forget about any intelligent conversation in Luoding. Keep in mind that when you arrive you will not have my sympathy as you have been warned. Seeing as you are such an expert on judging people you have never met and applying labels to them just because they point out the truth, maybe you could share you vast wisdom with all of us. Please put me in the direction where I can find any evidence whatsoever that counterclaims my views on luoding. I want to see some factual evidence that proves what I have said about luoding is false. Are you up to the challenge? I doubt it.