Thank you for posting this Alice. I originally posted a not so kind response to the MC poster for writing the tripe he did but the admins thought it was too explicit apparently so it was never published. I will revise it and tone it down to this: Many, many middle aged men with nowhere else to go but a place like China need to work there in order to make a living. For all I know I could still be working as an ESl teacher by the time I am their age. But we need to

It hasn't gorn unnoticed, that you are being impolite to me, Dragonised...But never mind, it shouldn't be taken to heart by either of us-now am I right or am I right?

You keep on about my lack of Chinese against your fluency-whereas, I admire you for all the hard work you must have put it, I myself am now trying hard to learn- and like old Major in Animal Farm I say to myself every day, I can work harder, and tomorrow I will work harder-or, specially learned to send this reply(yousee I must respect you) so the same in Chinese-jiu xiang Animal Farm li de Old Major,jingchang dui ziji shuo, wo keyi geng nuli de gongzuo.bingqie cong mingtian wo jiu hui geng nuli de gongzuo.(any mistakes, please correct me)lol