NormanTaber on news Why Are China’s Most Talented Overseas Students Not Returning?(11 comments)

Nov 22,2013 03:10 comment|41497|4778

I taught in ten unversities and high schools for seven years. I was not repeat employed in five universities bcause the tonzhers did not like my American teaching of business courses. I was retired at age 70 when I had written two complete courses and an English qualifying examination for a Doctor of Business ... Full Comment>>

NormanTaber on news Go Solo: A Guide to Traveling Alone in China(5 comments)

Jul 11,2013 12:46 comment|38919|4778

I found a travel agent that will schedule foreign teachers on Chinese domestic tours. The first morning the Chinese participants were not to keen about me being on THEIR tour. By the end of the first day the attitudes changed, I was always on time to load for the next move. The others had to wait for Chinese coming ... Full Comment>>

NormanTaber on news 5 Guilty Pleasures in China Expats Secretly Enjoy(37 comments)

May 23,2013 01:22 comment|37461|4778

Memories: It was interesting going to large markets like Carefore or WalMart and have the employees treat one as a foreigner that should go to a smaller store and pay higher prices. Or going to a bank to transfer money and the next day going to computer store refusing to bargain. On leaving, another clerk asking, ... Full Comment>>

NormanTaber on news Drunk Foreigners Caught Peeing in Public; Netizens Freak Out (4 comments)

Mar 28,2013 12:49 comment|36305|4778

Little boys still wear short pants without the croutch sowed up. Once a small child will run down the street without clothes, it is cute. How do you know it is a girl? By her hips. Full Comment>>

NormanTaber on news CPPCC Member: English Learning in China “Destructive” to Chinese Education(23 comments)

Mar 28,2013 01:08 comment|36300|4778

I have taught in private schools, middle schools,and in universities in China. The biggest problem is the giving of grades in English by school administrators to keep the parents paying for classes that their students are not interested in English. Sixty students in an English class is too many, but the English ... Full Comment>>

NormanTaber on news If China’s Fiscal Revenue is Booming, Why Aren’t Most People Better Off?(10 comments)

Oct 25,2012 17:38 comment|32927|4778

The Chinese government is collectiing currency from the rest of the world by having lower wages than the rest of the world. This has retarded the development of domestic consumption that is needed to improve the standard of living for all of the Chinese people. The attraction of foreign companies to produce in China ... Full Comment>>

NormanTaber on news Sticky Expat Etiquette: Dealing with Other Foreigners in China(64 comments)

Jul 06,2012 01:00 comment|29274|4778

I was an older Business English lecturer that was met by exclusion by the younger foreigners. I helped them when they needed it and they went their own way with other young teachers. Having worked and/or studied in Germany, in France, in Ivory Coast, in Somalia, and seven years in China, when I went with a group it ... Full Comment>>

NormanTaber on news Fined & Shamed: Foreign Teacher Who Threw 5 Year-Old in Pool Pays the Price(112 comments)

Jul 06,2012 00:02 comment|29269|4778

The children of the poor in the United States have parents not highly socially developed. which hurts their social advancement in life. Most of their parents have not had accounting for budgeting their earnings. In this situation the children of the poor in China and in America have similar learning problems. ... Full Comment>>

NormanTaber on news The Lessons China Should Draw from the War in Libya(75 comments)

Mar 31,2011 09:10 comment|13733|4778

NT: Mar 30, 2011 Chinese still equate their culture as the best, but do not realize that it has abused the poor and unfortunate population for almost its entire existance. China is applying presure on its neighbors of the South China Sea to take all of the oil production without recognizing the right of the other ... Full Comment>>

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