Are English Teachers Traitors?

I think so. You teach them a skill that will be used in business to help them make money and take a job away from a fellow countryman. China is not an ally to the West; they lie, cheat and steal, yet you empower them, by teaching them our language. Why not teach to a country that is Western friendly rather than in a communist country where all you do is help them or go home and teach ESL to foreign immigrants?

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Permalink Reply by Zen on my back on November 12, 2011 at 6:09pm

Good point, even just to stir some shit up, but why not broadening this question to all the companies that in the last 20 years have moved or outsourced here to cut the expenses down, to avoid taxes or civil rights for their workers? Why just the poor English teachers? Why not the rich businessmen, the ones whom have made money impoverishing their own countries and stealing jobs to their national people to make China rich and powerful as it is today? Why not, Cynic?

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Permalink Reply by JD on November 12, 2011 at 6:25pm

Hey, don't forget the politicians and the government that made it possible for the companies back home to outsource....

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Permalink Reply by Cynic The Troll on November 12, 2011 at 9:41pm

difference is; a businessman exploits the Chinese for low cost products through cheap labor. An English teacher only empowers them and gets nothing in return expect some warm, fuzzy feeling.