Beth
- 2014-11-12
I was in Taizhou in 2010 and I had a friend who worked at Birmy (Terry Bradshaw) whom I spent a lot of time with during my time in TZ. He was happy and enjoyed working for Birmy. It wasn't a great school, not many are anywhere in China, but it was certainly better than a lot in the area, to the point I had considered joining the staff there before I made my decision to leave TZ for Dalian.
I honestly believe a lot of the problems people have with TCs is that they arrive expecting western standards of living, and in a place like Jiao Jiang that is never going to happen. Then they're expected to actually lesson plan and try get frustrated as they are not really teachers, just people looking to fund a trip to Asia. The school is often to blame for not making living conditions and workload clear during the interview, but this is a question of managing expectation. For a Chinese person the apartments and workload given to FTs must seem western, as it's a damn sight less than Chinese staff are expected to do in terms of hours and the apartments are much bigger and less crowded than those Chinese staff live in!
And yes, unfortunately they do practice 'white worship', especially so I found in TZ where they really weren't used to foreigners; I was followed around by gaggles of Chinese folk wanting pictures with me when I first arrived as I was one of only 6 western women in the local area in 2010! But a school can't really be blamed for the attitudes and beliefs of a nation.
Cultural Annihilation and The Birth Of Modern China
- 2014-11-12
Blame it on Chinese, not on Caucasians, don't try to find any way to blame this on the colonial era or some Western propaganda.
The truth is that Chinese worship money, thus they worship Caucasians because White countries tend to be the wealthiest. They worship money because they are faithless, religion has been outlawed and the temples destroyed or closed for so long that the communists have succeeded in China where they failed even in Russia, they have created a godless society. Mao has been far more cruel than any other communist leader in history. Thus the only value in today's post communist China (only communist by name) is wealth (and materialism). People want to get rich to gtfo of here, 60% of the wealthy Chinese have already emigrated or are in the process to do so. Chinese don't trust anyone, certainly not their leaders who already took people's assets from the banks, and not once. The goal for most Chinese is still to obtain a foreign citizenship (preference for North America, otherwise Europe) to get out of the grips of their government.
Another reason why Chinese worship Caucasians is because in the past white skin was a sign of prosperity and high social status, only farmers were tanned and had dark skin because they worked under the sun all day long.
A Teacher
- 2014-11-11
Yep, schools and parents in China blindly practice "white worship".
My white American teacher friends with years of experience in China told me white High School grads get the Foreign Expert Certificate with no problem. But Asian-Americans with degrees, forgit-about-it.