Emile comments on Teaching English in Shanghai - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 03 November 2012 02:18:05PM 7 points [-]

When I was in China, my at-the-time girlfriend showed me a Chinese cartoon with two beggars in the street in the US, one telling the other, "Hey, I have an idea - let's go teach English in China".

That should say something about how Chinese students see some English teachers.

Comment author: gwern 03 November 2012 03:45:44PM 1 point [-]

That's also true in South Korea; one of the k-bloggers I follow has a historical shtick where he digs up & translates old articles about 'native English teachers', and also archives comics from Korean newspapers about them (typically xenophobic etc).