Because someone behaves badly means that I should do the same? Foreigners are cheated, lied to and at times treated horribly, i do not deny that happens. It has happened to me in the past and i am sure it will happen in the future. I will not though justify bad behavior by saying that since they do it so will I. If someone here does try to take advantage of me I remove myself from the situation, someone tries to force me to drink and I do not feel like it i will leave. If they are off to the brothels and i do not want to join them i will not go. It is about personal responsibility and doing what you think is right. Harming people, taking advantage of them or making excuses for your bad behavior is IMO wrong no matter where you are. that being said I choose not to associate with people that if I was in my home country I would not have been with. That woman Lucy speculated that I was throwing a red herring to offset my anti American ideas yet it is obvious there are those who will work at a uni with the intention of hooking up with the young ladies. they do it here because in their home country they would not be given the time of day, western women would see through their feeble attempts in a matter of minutes.

When you have foreigners coming here on sex tours, defiling children and paying off the families and other sundry behavior stating that because the social ideas justify that behavior is crazy. No matter how much some people here try to justify their behavior here the bottom line is they are scumbags, they are scumbags here in China as well as their home countries. i would not care so much if it did not have an impact on me but as it does I voice my opinion. It effects me in my daily life as I have to deal with people that have an even lower opinion of foreigners based on previous peoples vile contempt for this country and the people that live in it.

I do not condone the abuse of innocents in my home country so why would I here? Regardless of how the Chinese treat their own I will not stoop to the level that scumbags here do. If these girl have the life experience and coping mechanisms to deal with these scumbags fair enough but anyone working with these kids knows how easily it is to take advantage of them. Tell them you love them and they will believe it. As for how I know this after plenty of conversations with both foreigner and chinese I know that there are those with no scuples that will say and do whatever they can to get there rocks off.

How you can condone this behavior or even try to justify it boggles the mind.

[Edited by Administrator (admin) Mon, 11 Jul 2011, 07:51 AM]