mhager

Nov 23, 2015 20:57

Around China : mhager commented on news Netizens Puzzled by 100 kg Woman with Beautiful, Thin Face

If you read the comment above you can see that the line was taken directly from it, it was a parody of that. Full Comment>>

mhager

Nov 23, 2015 20:25

Around China : mhager commented on news Netizens Puzzled by 100 kg Woman with Beautiful, Thin Face

Typical foreign elitist behaviour, taking something where the reaction would be the same in any western country and pretending that this is somehow only a problem that would occur in China. I would suspect that most of the negative comments on this story come from people who have a inflated sense of western ... Full Comment>>

mhager

Nov 06, 2015 20:15

Articles : mhager commented on news Kindergarten Accuses Parents of Libel for Complaining about Russian ESL Teacher

' What does it matter if the cat is black or white so long as it catches the mouse.' That is a false equivalency, catching a mouse is binary the cat either does or doesn't, where as teaching English is not, it is about how effective the teacher is at all aspects of their teaching. A non-native speaker can never be ... Full Comment>>

mhager

Jul 16, 2015 15:21

Around China : mhager commented on news Life-Like Robot Abe “Apologizes” to Chinese at Shanghai Exhibition

For decades the Australian Government refused to apologise to the Aboriginals for their treatment after the British arrived until Kevin Rudd was elected and he very quickly made a public apology for what the past governments did. He was not responsible for what happened but he understood that as the leader of our ... Full Comment>>

mhager

Jul 12, 2015 23:48

Blogs : mhager commented on destinyeric 's blog Choosing a Foreign English teacher in China

Thank you for taking almost 3 months to answer my long and detailed post with something you read on the back of a fortune cookie once. Come back with a real response that adresses my points if you want a real debate. I assume you won't as can be seen in your pervious responses you just say what you want to say and ... Full Comment>>

mhager

May 20, 2015 19:19

Blogs : mhager commented on destinyeric 's blog Choosing a Foreign English teacher in China

How exactly do you know anything about what is happening in MY classes and how interested MY students are and how well MY students perform when you have never seen any of MY classes. Maybe the foreign teachers that you see are terrible, there are a lot of them in China and I doubt that anyone will deny that. But to ... Full Comment>>

mhager

May 15, 2015 23:13

Blogs : mhager commented on destinyeric 's blog Choosing a Foreign English teacher in China

No one deserves to have dug addicts as their teachers that goes without saying (if any of what you said is even true as you provided no links to the story) but that has nothing to do with what we are talking about and for that matter crime is not limited to only white people. There are good and bad people of all ... Full Comment>>

mhager

May 14, 2015 16:02

Blogs : mhager commented on destinyeric 's blog Choosing a Foreign English teacher in China

I think you misread my post, no where did I say that someone changes from a native speaker of one language to a native speaker of another language. I said that immirgrants come to Australia with their native language and then their children speak English and possibly their parents native language also. But then when ... Full Comment>>

mhager

May 13, 2015 19:49

Blogs : mhager commented on destinyeric 's blog Choosing a Foreign English teacher in China

You are painting with a very broard brush here. Yes there are probably people here from America or England (or Australia where I am from) that came to China because it provided more opportunities than were available at home. However to say that everyone is here because of desperation is clearly untrue. Some people ... Full Comment>>

mhager

Feb 02, 2015 17:05

Articles : mhager commented on news Spring Festival Travel Guide to Destinations and Buying Train & Airline Tickets

If you live in Shanghai stay here and enjoy the best time of the year because so many people go home and the city is much emptier in general. Still probably a good idea to skip any big tourist destinations though Full Comment>>

mhager

Oct 29, 2014 16:47

Blogs : mhager commented on adb2014 's blog Just Eat It!

People taking photos of their food always seemed dumb to me but its easy to ignore so I don't care one way or the other. But I have to say as an Australian I have seen people take photos of their food much more in Australia than China. Full Comment>>

mhager

Aug 05, 2014 18:15

Blogs : mhager commented on hadleyj09 's blog China: First Year Finished

My wife is from Shanghai and she does not want to move to Australia until both her parents are retired. Also we like living here so we are not in a rush to leave. Full Comment>>

mhager

Jul 25, 2014 20:16

Blogs : mhager commented on hadleyj09 's blog China: First Year Finished

Overall I found this blog interesting Hadley but there is one point that really sticks out to me. You mention that English teachers in China are privileged to work in China and that if we were not for certain counties we would not be able to do this job. Now while it is true that many English teachers in China did ... Full Comment>>

mhager

Jul 18, 2014 19:38

Blogs : mhager commented on adb2014 's blog Raising an International Child in China

I would say that this line was what caused the down votes "One thing that’s really struck me about being a parent in Guangzhou is the friendliness of the locals, and their lack of inhibitions, especially from other parents" There are people who are very anti-china or chinese so saying something positive about the ... Full Comment>>