Why? Why so violently? You can also just tell them it bothers you and if they do not respect that so simply next time select different 'eating partner'. Much better for your (and probably also their) meal enjoyment. Full Comment>>

I am of the similar opinion. Many people neglect or are not aware of the real situation of the 'average' married woman in China. The girl after she is married has a lot of duties towards her own parents, towards the husband and also husband parents. It's generally not expected (and also not desired) that she will ... Full Comment>>

Dear RiriRiri, the point I was trying to raise is that I really doubt Confucius Institutes would try to indoctrinate their students. I can hardly imagine any reasonable way how could they do it and I cannot see any benefit for anyone even in highly unlikely case they would really try that. But apparently this is not ... Full Comment>>

Common. Majority of universities in Europe receive money from government which by definition are political institutions. Also trying to establish a mutual cooperation with another universities who are supported by another political institutions. On top of that I find the argument that Confucius Institute politically ... Full Comment>>

Honestly Eorthisio I believe you are the first real masochist I ever met.Spending so much money, effort and time to come to the country which annoys you so much ...There must be a reason behind it and I can hardly imagine, based on your posts, any other one Full Comment>>

I fail to understand what is the trouble having a reasonable cooperation with language institute financed by another.government. In Europe there are plenty of such institutions. All these "news" about "communist indoctrination" sound ridiculous. Till the time the average student of Chinese will ... Full Comment>>

Dear Hotwater, thanks for acknowledging the main point of my initial comment and let me now discus with you the bad manners. I usually have a natural suspicion if somebody uses very general and inclusive terms to describe certain, large, group of persons or objects. Eorthisio talked about long term China immigrants ... Full Comment>>

Dear Hotwater， did you border to read the original article prior to replying my comment? I guess not because otherwise you would realize, that it has nothing to do with goodor bad manners. Nevertheless I still do not exclude the option that you did read it... Full Comment>>

Even though you may be right in certain cases (what in China due to the population quantity always means in many cases :) ) I still fail to see the connection between introducing a relatively innocent cultural topic with raising of criticism towards certain Chinese ... My Christmas were great - now looking forward ... Full Comment>>

I admire your bravery to come directly to lion's den! Bravo! But really do not envy you your feeling while being in China. And just out of curiosity can you tell us what made you to connect relatively innocent cultural aspect with unsupported critisism of Chinese tourists? By the way are you aware of the trivial ... Full Comment>>

Mateusz, there is a saying: "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" Nothing wrong with your standards and wish you a lot of friends with same ones. I would just be much more careful with calling it general, common humanity etc. I always prefer the free choice of each individual. Full Comment>>

laowaigentleman, it's still her free will to let herself influenced by her family, environment or even other guy. In case it's not her free will, meaning she is actually forced into such behaviour, so it's currently illegal in majority of the countries, including China. On the other note why do you think that all ... Full Comment>>

Mateusz, yes, I would not have any issue with it. If the girls is willing to spend 10 years with a guy without knowing he can do such a thing so there is something wrong with the girl, not with the man. Or another alternative is the girl knows that quite well but she gets in her opinion adequate value so it's anyway ... Full Comment>>

laowaigentleman, can I ask you what's wrong if the girl decides to drop one guy and select another? Don't you think that this is her free choice irrespective if you agree with her motivation? For any such relationship should be two people who willingly engage themselves. If one, for whatever reason, wants to seek ... Full Comment>>

May be it has no connection with the words meaning but rather with the way how they are used. Shouting on somebody on the street that he/she is Chinese/American/foreigner is certainly not considered a proper behaviour in China despite of its frequent happening. Nevertheless if you would ask your colleagues if they ... Full Comment>>

I fail to understand this 'laowai evergreen' obviously preferred by many contributors of this forum as it appears again and again. The only explanation I can think of is that majority of these contributors mother language is English and they mostly travelled just to English speaking countries. My job took me to more ... Full Comment>>

I am always amazed how people who explicitly express their intolerance/disdain of other than their own point of view ('Those who are here for the "love of China" are a bit nut and have some psychological problems') are complaining about China intolerance ... To be fair this particular message just shows ... Full Comment>>

If we talk about adult person so this person should be able to control own behaviour and if this person is not the rascal so not to behave in contradiction to the valid rules and regulations. Apparently there are a lot of guys with adult body but highly immature way of thinking. As a remark let me add that probably ... Full Comment>>

Yes, Englteachted. This is one point. Another could be that I assume that ignoring or breaking the law is simply a wrong thing to do (as long as the person has a free choice of eventual accepting or rejecting the situation when the law applies to the person - what all foreigners in their host countries have). It may ... Full Comment>>

And can you pls explain me what has the other people wrong doing in common with, eventually (and without accusing you :) ), a certain person improper behaviour? Full Comment>>

I see the problem in certain arrogance of some foreigners. I witnessed a guy walking his dog to the park where no dogs are allowed. When stopped by security so he just walked on pretending he does not speak Chinese. His Chinese is almost perfect but even if not speaking a word the security gestures and the sing 'no ... Full Comment>>

Ooh - you are right and thanks for reminding me. Then I assume the article makes sense and fulfils its original role :) Full Comment>>

I must say that after reading the title of this article I was very curious how the author tackled such, in my opinion extremely difficult, issue. I believe the topic is very difficult because foreigners are very heterogeneous group - North Americans, Europeans (and one should keep in mind that different countries in ... Full Comment>>

I'm not sure that this is the issue with current Ukraine situation. Ukraine was for quite a while already relatively unstable due to the tensions between the Western Ukrainians and Eastern 'Russians'. Previous Ukraine governments did not do themselves a good service by trying to suppress the usage of Russian ... Full Comment>>

Just out of curiosity - why having preference for one would necessarily have to create a hostility for the other one? I do not think that different is necessarily better or worse. Full Comment>>