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JB, you are someone who wouldn't work in Asia or the Middle East, sure. But that is based on what you have seen while in those regions. You base your stance on facts, in other words.
You may not believe this, but there are people back in the US who have never been to Asia or the Middle East.
Now, make the stretch for me here. Some of these people actually WANT to know what it's like. Unlike you, these folks WANT to come to Asia or the Middle East to work or live. But, being as they've never been to Asia or the Middle East, they don't know what's like and want to know the REAL story about how it is in those places.
That's where I, and my supposedly 'racist' posts, come in.
Back in February and March of 2004, I was sitting hunched over a computer in a public library trying to decide where I wanted to go teach ESL. I didn't find much information I could actually USE. What I did find was plenty of biased BS about how 'great' it is to teach in places like Thailand. Unfortunately, I didn't know back then that that info was biased. I didn't learn that fact until I actually landed here and saw reality didn't fit what I'd read online.
I'm trying to correct this imbalance. Somebody needs to get on the horn and let people trying to decide where to go know how it really is. I try do to do that in my posts.
I'm trying to read some of my recent posts and distill out the 'racist' elements. I don't really see any racism, myself. I only see the truth. The truth someone hunched over a computer at some public library back in states can use to help him or her decide where to go to teach ESL. Maybe some will ignore what they read, sure. But the info will at least be available. Somebody out there will be able to use my info, I'm sure.
As far as the 'culture' clash goes, you can give me a lecture all about it when I come see you in a Thai hospital lying flat on your back with Dehli Belly thanks to some careless Thai who didn't wipe or wash his hands after he took a dump.
I'll bring ya flowers if it'll make you feel better.
Take it easy.
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