You do have a point. I was thinking more in the lines of people who are classified as being from "native" speaking countries. The teachers who are from the Phillipines aren't categorized as native speaking teachers, yet. To be fair this categorization isn't a good judgement on the part of people. However you are right with what you say about them in general, at least the ones in china. The ones I have worked with are always the quickest to run from a problem or issue, spread rumors at work about expats, and kiss up to the criminals who run these "schools". They may think it's a good excuse to justify being from a poorer country and how they must put up or how lucky they are, but they should look at the people in china who actually do stand up for themseles (Chinese and Foreign).