Forums > Living in Kunming > Discrimination in ESL Could be, Dudeson, but for those relatively few ESL students who will go abroad to study in English, a little introduction to what they're getting into may not be such a bad idea. And some universities are not quite like high school, and a lot of them don't have to be, for the student. Students going abroad to do postgrad work will need to pick up a bit more about academic writing in English than they may have had before.
Not that all this affects the average foreign ESL teacher much.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Discrimination in ESL @ tiger: on privileged kids: understood, yes, there are exceptions.
@ tiger on giving advice: yes, but plenty of teachers, ESL or otherwise, have been to Chinese universities, where most students of English are likely to go, and foreign ESL teachers are not necessarily the best advisors concerning them.
Forums > Living in Kunming > How do you guys feel about this? (a) & (d) are often important, but it can also be done decently, if you really know what you are doing and are devoted to the 'sport' and are not a jerk, with fellow climbers of whatever origin on a basis of equality and mutual respect and personal responsibility. The idea that 'nothing bad can happen to me' is dangerous and is one held by people I would never climb with. Climbing can be a wonderful activity if you are nuts enough to be fanatical about it, and an absolutely crazy masochistic obsession if you are not.
Choose your poison, but don't use people in the process - only shits disregard the lives of others, and Sherpa guides have a long history of not being shits.
PS: I'm not pretending to have any experience with really serious high-altitude mountaineering, but only referring to climbing per se - and there the disposable wealth is not always necessary - Mt. Everest is somewhat different.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Bilingual swimming lessons? Obviously, I hope, the language and verbal explanation are not the most important things.
Kunming scientist works to change world with perennial rice
发布者Now THAT would be something!
Report: Communally owned forests hold key to healthier China re-greening
发布者Note practical functional adaptation to forest regrowth and re-use of land for agriculture practiced by slash-&-burn (swidden) mountain groups before their territories were restricted, which required re-use of same land in much shorter periods - and they knew, through their cultural history, that this wouldn't work, and said so - but of course the explosion of the human population made continuation of these traditional long-period of regrowth practices impossible. Now they are blamed for being ignorant and ruining mountain slopes (in China, Thailand, many places).
Fact is, there are simply too many people.
Interview: Brian Eyler on Baihetan, China's second largest dam
发布者And note the comment about owners making money simply out of selling stock.
Human efficiency is an interesting concept.
Interview: Brian Eyler on Baihetan, China's second largest dam
发布者And forget about air conditioning in a city where it's never needed.
Interview: Brian Eyler on Baihetan, China's second largest dam
发布者The Curmudgeon says: Maybe the Western dam experts criticisms of just about every dam in Asia are right.
In vis-a-vis arguments concerning fossil-based, nuclear and hydroelectric sources of energy, perhaps the shining truth behind them all is simply that this particular species of animal consumes too much damn energy for the good of the planet, including that of our particular species. Perhaps solar, tidal, etc. development will prove me wrong. In the meantime, walk, get a bicycle or ride the bus. Healthier and less socially divisive too.