I feel your pain bro. The level of meaness and stupidity is mindboggling ( mind you I'm from the USA where a cartoon Character is Gov of California and the President is a former cocaine sniffing born again idiot) as we speak I am sitting in a room in Guangzhou waiting for my pay which is 7 hrs late. (Hey Fish howyadoin'). Heres' how I see it . Most of the smart people here split in 49 or got in tight with the commies leaving the reast to flounder in a sea of bullshit and uncertainty . Lucky for me I was born in just that sort of enviorment (South Bronx) so hell, for the most part I get along fairly well here. In sort I am a nigga'. Now don't get upset. But in order to live with people like this you must understand the nigga' in them. They feel inferior to westerners so they want to hurt you or at least make you feel bad too. These people have been eating lies and crap since 49 so they feel its thier turn to dump on someone . Now here you come. making more money than they do acting cool and all that. Well naturally they get an attitude. The can't take their aggression on the real source of thier misery(the government) so they pick on us lowly teachers. Yellow on white crime. In order to get along with anybody you must first understand thier pain. The way I do it is I first recognize that I came here for an expereince good or bad. Then every day no matter how bad I find a way to fall in love with China and last I focus on the kids not the crap.

Luv

Soul bro