My Teacher Friend from China

She is very opinionated and swears lol so sorry if that offends anyone.

Email 1

any specifics on poverty?
here's what came right to mind:

70% of the chinese population is composed of farmers that grow the food for their massive population. these people are shit upon. same with construction workers. girls use umbrellas in the sun - light is good, dark is bad - because it means you work outside. same reason why men grow out one or all of their nails to show that they don't to physical labor & get their hands dirty. Good for communism for succeeding in brainwashing these people to believe they are farming for their country, and proud, and committed and not pissed off that they are sh*t on.

there are virtually no facilities for handicapped people. if you are deformed - you won't get a job and HAVE to beg for a living. if you have a visible scar - you also won't get hired in a high paying job, or even a job as a hostess. the chinese are super judgmental & discriminating.

you have to have money to leave the country (obviously) but money=status=no status= no hong kong for you (i think they fear that the poor (farmers) will see western civilization and then revolt, because they are sh*t on - i can almost guarantee that there will be some sort of civil uprising in china in our life time)

poverty level is so much different in china in comparison to here. to me, except in the big cities, every one seemed poor, with VERY low standards for hygiene. I lived in rural china. I suppose I am confusing dirty with poverty. everything is dirty there. but ifs a matter of "lacking material comforts" sh*t - the majority. not as many people seeming destitute - but sure as shit they would always come begging to us foreigners. I would always give money to the deformed, especially children, knowing that they were never going to be allowed to work.

check your food labels - if it was made in china - i wouldn't eat it.

i am sure i will think of some more stuff. i will check your page for an email address, but if its not on there - send it to me and i will send you pictures.

Email 2

Heya, heres that email: 1- and by dirty................. 2-beijing side street 3-trash (chinese people throw trash everywhere - I never got used to that. but china has created jobs such as: people who pick up garbage (plastic gets recycled and is worth money), people who sweep the highways with a broom in pic 6 4-street by school 5- my favorite dumpling shop 6-chinese broom 7-beijing pollution 8-did I say dirty? guess i didn't take pics of many of the invalids or nastiness :) bunch of chinese albums on my fakebook page I had a heater and a nice enough apartment- but thats because I was a foreign teacher - no heat/heated water in the dorms, no heat in my classrom - I literally wore my winter coat ALL class period during the winter and bought myself a pair of fingerless gloves so that I could still write on the chalkboard. yet - somehow I miss it now. did any of this help? questions?