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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
On December 26 2007 01:56 haduken wrote: You have to admit that alot of english teachers are fuckwits. that goes for the ESL teachers in western nations as well. I think there's 'fuckwits' in a lot of professions. What's yours by the way? Saying 99% is IMO drastically overstating the case. Mixed up in English Teacher hatred is often racism and xenophobia as well. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
for example. I'm Chinese and studies at an Australian Uni. I had to put up with people who think that 99% of Chinese kids here are spoiled brats and children of corrupted officials with too much money on their hands. Do you call that xenophobia too? | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
"Hey buddy, You can't help that the bad apples are over-represented. You also can't help that Asians sees English teachers as people who can't find decent jobs at their home country. You can't call that racism, it's just stereotyping. You should see that as part of your job description. for example. I'm Chinese and studies at an Australian Uni. I had to put up with people who think that 99% of Chinese kids here are spoiled brats and children of corrupted officials with too much money on their hands. Do you call that xenophobia too? " Yeah, good point, I would call that attitude at least partially based on xenophobia and just, plain ignorance. Unfortunately there's mis-representation in every country and western countries are far worse than Asain countries. It still kinda sucks though when you're on the receiving end of it. I can't give you details but back in NZ I actually made the evening news protesting against a political party's pamphlet that was making unfair statements about Asian immigrants. I received cards from many chinese who were grateful that I had taken a stand. It was a humbling experience. I'm also really grateful about the treatment I've had in Korea particularly considering I earn more than a lot of Korean graduates and it must be annoying for them to see a foreigner getting paid more than them. Eventually the level of English will be high enough here that they won't need anymore foreigners and I'm fine with that. I'm only planning to be here til the end of next year and then I'm going home to teach high-school English. I guess I just didn't want this thread to degenerate into a bunch of 'lol English teachers are faggots' from a bunch of high-school kids who don't know what the fuck they're talking about, but then I guess I shouldn't take the TL general forum too seriously. | ||
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Trev
United States113 Posts
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JensOfSweden
Cameroon1767 Posts
Do you work out, run, keep in shape? I guess just playing poker/partying could REALLY wear you down soon otherwise | ||
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JensOfSweden
Cameroon1767 Posts
On December 26 2007 03:46 Trev wrote: Nice read! Rekrul doesn't hold back that is what makes him so interesting. Neither does your mom | ||
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CapO
United States1615 Posts
On December 23 2007 00:37 Rekrul wrote: order some food, but not chinese food because chinese food in Korea is worse than chinese food in China. rek, u sure u don't like 짜장면, 짬뽕, and 탕수육? | ||
Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
LOL THOSE ARE THE EXACT THREE THAT MAKE ME WANNA PUKE unless i'm hungover with no other way of getting food while newb bashing manifesto in sc that is | ||
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Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
On December 26 2007 02:05 tomatriedes wrote: I think there's 'fuckwits' in a lot of professions. What's yours by the way? Saying 99% is IMO drastically overstating the case. Mixed up in English Teacher hatred is often racism and xenophobia as well. toma theres no reason to respond to honesttea like you did as obviously his '99%' was just a blah make a point number if u wanna flame somoene about that subject u may as well flame all the shit i said in my post cuz that was all a way lot worse than what honesttea said | ||
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ilovejonn
Canada2548 Posts
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alffla
Hong Kong20321 Posts
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HonestTea
5007 Posts
That was an exaggeration. If I were to come up with a true figure, I'd say 58% douchebag. My apologies. As for the flames, You have me confused with a man who talks about shit I have no idea about. I don't. I've met many hakwon teachers in Korea. Korean and non-Korean. I have good friends who are English Teachers in Korea. I once was seeing a girl who made incredible money writing college essays. Hell, MANI is an overseas English teacher (albiet not in Korea) And I think 58% douchebag is a fair number. And if not douchebag, many are aimless and only it in for the money, which takes a real toll on their soul and hurts them other ways. I seen it. I know that it's not exactly peaches and cream to teach English here as a foreigner. I respect those who are here with the respect and the endurance to make it work. That being said, there are many here with the wrong attitude and the wrong motivations. | ||
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HonestTea
5007 Posts
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Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
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HonestTea
5007 Posts
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eekmice
United States373 Posts
u shouldn't live in korea if you don't like those 3. those are like the top 3 main delivery items in the history of korean fast food | ||
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eekmice
United States373 Posts
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iloveHieu
United States1919 Posts
Yours doesn't, either. | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
I hear ya. 58% sounds about right to me too. I've met my fair share of psychopaths and degenerates over here who really shouldn't be anywhere near impressionable young minds. I hope the new criminal background checks weed out some of the worst riffraff. The reason why they had to introduce the new checks is because a Canadian paedophile was discovered to be teaching here at an elementary school! Its something that should have happened a long time ago. ps- If anybody whose reading this has not graduated and are thinking about coming to Korea to teach on a fake degree, I wouldn't. They're taking that kind of thing a lot more serious now. A Canadian who was teaching with a fake degree got busted and had to serve a 6-month prison sentence before being deported. Its not worth it. | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
On December 26 2007 06:39 Rekrul wrote: toma theres no reason to respond to honesttea like you did as obviously his '99%' was just a blah make a point number if u wanna flame somoene about that subject u may as well flame all the shit i said in my post cuz that was all a way lot worse than what honesttea said Ah yes, but in my view you have 'artistic license' when it comes to posting because your posts are entertaining  | ||
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