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Flying Upside Down would probably be more interesting if I knew how to fly airplanes--I'm not directly knocking him for this but he uses a lot of jargon to describe the specifics of what's going on in his anecdotes, so I found myself skipping paragraphs that I just didn't understand. It's not the whole thing that's like that, there are plenty of stories that revolve around people not listening to instructions, or getting stupidly huffy with each other in the office. He does refer to one of the airline employees as the HNIC so, yeahhhh.....
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Here in Best China the schools that are (theoretically) properly run and teach to Western standards, aiming to produce well-rounded students who will get into American or European universities on honest merit are the international schools, which are only open to foreign passport holders. A lot of their students are dual-citizen holders of both Taiwanese and American or U.K. passports, sometimes because their parents deliberately flew to LA to have them. They're pretty good--not that they don't have their problems, but any high school can have problems. For the most part they have hiring standards comparable to schools in western countries, or stricter. They do pretty good work. Every so often you get a kid coming out of one of them who's been in an English environment so long they've forgotten how to read and/or speak Chinese. Teaching in a public high school here also has tighter standards than most jobs, so I haven't heard much about how it is, outside of some anecdotes from people who have done substitute work and said it seemed pretty much like a high school class in any country.
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I read that as meaning "tropical island country" tbh and even that's only really true for some parts of Taiwan in my experience
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JaucheCharly posted:How chinese is Taiwan? This is a really broad question that could mean lots of different things, so the answer could be "very" or "not at all" or "somewhat" or "mildly."
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