They are quick learners the Chinese, they learn all the malpractices from the west. Best we as foreign teachers keep our noses out of how the Chinese market themselves and concentrate on the teaching we are hired to do in Asia. We have two teachers. They don't teach they just complain about Asia and spend all the time they should spend on lesson preparations moaning on Dave's Caf, or some such other awful whinging website.

So what you are really are saying is: Sell your soul for your 20 pieces of silver?

No thanks, I am not as desperate as you.

You have some decent points, I will give you that. But there are boundaries to one's tolerance.

I also don't like it when newbies either moan/cum in their pants about everything that is different from back home, but at the same time I have found that too many people obsess about multi-cultural adaptability for the sake of it. Contrary to what they might teach you at any business school, sometimes it might be better to remember that there are certain aspects of your home country's culture that are actually worth hanging onto, that are even superior to that of your host country, as prejudiced as that sounds. Besides, if it wasn't for their flaws, these Chinese companies would have no need to hire expats to solve their problems!

Sure, it is good to keep your nose out of office politics too if you can; I have personally suffered due to that shit in the past but... if you have morals, you might not want to flush those down the toilet.

Then again, maybe I am being too polite to you. Are you just another wumao with a bullshit western style name trying to suppress the influence of esl websites, that allow teachers to realise what a load of bullshit the Chinese ESL industry has become?