A pity, surely a school can decide if a teacher has the abilities they want. There are so many Chinese teachers for whom to teach English is a challenge, so someone from Germany or the Phillippines would have a beneficial contribution.
And yes it's true, often non-native English speakers know English grammar better than native speakers!
Any word yet on whether the other branch, at TongDe on Beijing Lu, has opened yet? Is it likely to be just a counter like downtown, or will it be a restaurant with its own internal seating?
The bus stop for Xi You Dong is called Xi You Dong zhan on Bus C10.
I couldn't believe that Baidu gave the English name for Xi You Dong as "West Hole Park"!
Wow, the map at that link is very old HFCAMPO, it even has the wrong name for the airport. Anonymous Coward feels that lines 4, 5 & 7 are hypothetical, has there been any official revision of the subway plan for the city?
As for the issue of the usage of the term laowai/waiguoren, I also have found back in Australia when I went to Chinatown, i heard Chinese people call me laowai - when I am in fact the local! And with some of my Chinese friends I said that since the word 'yangren' means someone who came from across the ocean, in Australia you Chinese guys are the 'yangren' - they were just totally confused, and said no, we've always learnt that yangren means people like you!
So i think those terms are not related at all to the country in which the speaker is currently located, they are not geographic terms but rather cultural.
So i thought perhaps it is like Jewish people and their term Gentile. Jewish people located anywhere in the world would call a non-Jewish person a Gentile.
So maybe both those ancient cultures have a word that means not just foreigner but more like outsider.
I think creationists also claim some scientific proof for their position (presumably making different interpretations than evolutionists), but also relying upon more than science alone. Existence does not derive or consist of intellect alone, but also of the heart and the soul. Evolutionists usually do not comprehensively address existence in this way. Thus the theories have different purposes, so try and contrast them on a scientific basis alone (even when one cannot fully disprove the other anyway) is only looking at part of the picture. Apples and oranges.
Being tongue-in-cheek I used the emotive term propaganda. If there were ulterior motives of evolutionists, it would be to claim they have through science "disproved" an alternative explanation of origins such as creationism, proponents of which do not usually purport to rely on science alone anyway. However as you agreed, even science has not proven evolutionism. Thus to claim that it has, doesn't that seem something like propaganda?
My comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, following on from the discussion on the other thread recently about evolutionism. I was just saying, like Alien indicated above, that this is a theory not beyond doubt as to its validity, and open to revision and reinterpretation. Other forms of science are verified through experimentation and observation, but that does not apply to evolutionism, for which those methods are not available. Despite all of this, pronouncements by evolutionists seem to be treated unquestionedly as fact rather than speculation and interpretation.
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419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
Posted byI think creationists also claim some scientific proof for their position (presumably making different interpretations than evolutionists), but also relying upon more than science alone. Existence does not derive or consist of intellect alone, but also of the heart and the soul. Evolutionists usually do not comprehensively address existence in this way. Thus the theories have different purposes, so try and contrast them on a scientific basis alone (even when one cannot fully disprove the other anyway) is only looking at part of the picture. Apples and oranges.
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
Posted byEvolutionism is not fully proven, yet many people still believe it. Belief without full proof is also faith! Just a thought.
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
Posted byYeah, maybe some are sincere, because they have already been brainwashed! :)
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
Posted byBeing tongue-in-cheek I used the emotive term propaganda. If there were ulterior motives of evolutionists, it would be to claim they have through science "disproved" an alternative explanation of origins such as creationism, proponents of which do not usually purport to rely on science alone anyway. However as you agreed, even science has not proven evolutionism. Thus to claim that it has, doesn't that seem something like propaganda?
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
Posted byMy comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, following on from the discussion on the other thread recently about evolutionism. I was just saying, like Alien indicated above, that this is a theory not beyond doubt as to its validity, and open to revision and reinterpretation. Other forms of science are verified through experimentation and observation, but that does not apply to evolutionism, for which those methods are not available. Despite all of this, pronouncements by evolutionists seem to be treated unquestionedly as fact rather than speculation and interpretation.