“All of us who work in the EFL industry and take our jobs seriously should be concerned about this behaviour because it reflects negatively on us. Ordinary Chinese people returning home from work who see a drunken foreigner smashing empty bottles on the street, as I have heard foreigners in China brag about doing, tend to generalize and believe that ALL foreign teachers are little more than drunken clowns.”

As an American teaching in China shames me the poor and trashy behaviour of most young westerners that come to China not to teach but just to get drunk, date Chinese girls and have fun in general. Where are the ethics of our good western civilization that we like to brag so much? How can we call ourselves “civilized” when our behaviour in countries like China is so beastly? This “party” was not fun! It was un-moral and disrespectfully.

As for the Chinese participating in this disgraceful party perhaps a lesson in empathy is needed, how would you feel if someone in America held a “Rape of Nanjing party” which featured party goers dressed in Japanese Uniforms shooting others dressed as Chinese civilians.