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“Manners and the lack of” Baitianming’s photos around Qiqihar, China (heilongjiang)

Preview of Baitianming’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Qiqihar, China Entry Title: “Manners and the lack of.” Entry: “Late Friday night I got a text from the school I work for. This weekend they will not be needing my services as all the local schools figured out that they have days off, too, so they will be working on the weekend. So, all my friends are busy working and I’m completely free. Saturday I went and visited a school that was opening up. I heard about the school through a fellow American and he wanted me to come with not only to help him but to see about work as well. I was pretty much turned off to the idea as we started asking questions. The school is a private school, so I imagined it to be that way. The other guy kept asking questions. The person who was acting as our translator was doing a very, very good job. Every thing she translated was as we had been meaning. However, every reply we got answered not only a question we didn’t ask, but also a question that we didn’t care about. For example. “How many students do you have?” was answered with, “We will start a new semester in the fall and you will teach those students from these books.” “What is the level of English that they will have?” was answered with “You should prepare all of the lessons from this book over the summer.” Generally that’s how it went. It took about 10 …

The Title is a Misnomer.

Note: If this is the only video you will watch of mine, you will not get what I am talking about. China (中国) Playlist: www.youtube.com 1st thing’s 1st, why did I want to do this video?… … Because I got some confusion from my “America, You Made Me Hate Myself!” video and I wanted to clear up some of the misunderstanding. I did that video because of what happened to Jay Park (aka Jaebeom, ex-member of Kpop Idol group 2PM.) Don’t know who he is, go to this link: yujinishuge.wordpress.com …to read what happened. What he said about Korea was stupid, but I couldn’t really judge him because back when I was 18 yr.s old I said the same thing about China. I have said “I hate China, and I’m never going back.” And years later when I had to EAT those words, I found out that I said them out of ignorance and my lack of understanding of Asian culture… The fact that a complete stranger that shared my experience of being an Azn-American from Washington state, that had a similar attitude to his own culture, told me I HAD to talk about this. I wasn’t the only one that thought and felt this way. And then 2 months later the Amy Chua, “Tiger Parenting” debacle happen. (en.wikipedia.org Telling me that what I was doing, my goals for My Channel, were on the right course. There was a hunger out there to talk about Asian issues, specifically about the trauma of what it is to grow up Asian. The Asian blogs that I follow, blew up with their own take and reactions to what Amy Chua’s book …