Comments on: Pride and Shame: Student Assaults Foreign Teacher in the Name of Putonghua https://thenanfang.com/pride-and-shame-student-assaults-foreign-teacher-in-the-name-of-putonghua/ Daily news and views from China. Sun, 28 Jun 2015 02:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: WhatDidYouSay https://thenanfang.com/pride-and-shame-student-assaults-foreign-teacher-in-the-name-of-putonghua/#comment-11262 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:53:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=31448#comment-11262 I mean – at 26 years old and unable to settle things like a gentleman…to attend a university that teaches predominantly in english and attend a lesson conducted by an englishman. As with all other exchange students around the world, you take it as an opportunity to improve yourself, carrying around your personal translators in hand to aid yourself in your quest for greater knowledge. 改变一个人…用拳头是最有效的方法吗?斗智不是更光荣中国吗..

]]> By: WhatDidYouSay https://thenanfang.com/pride-and-shame-student-assaults-foreign-teacher-in-the-name-of-putonghua/#comment-11261 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:44:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=31448#comment-11261 When making an official complaint to the university’s main office is for some reason not the logical way to raise dissatisfaction with the mode of teaching.

]]> By: charlesliu https://thenanfang.com/pride-and-shame-student-assaults-foreign-teacher-in-the-name-of-putonghua/#comment-11247 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:34:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=31448#comment-11247 Sarah Caroline Gillette says:

Who do you think you are? I am an Chinese expert. I passionately love China and Putonghua. My husband is Chinese, my grandmother, my grandfather, my son, they are all Chinese — You just wouldn’t understand.

]]> By: Sarah Caroline Gillette https://thenanfang.com/pride-and-shame-student-assaults-foreign-teacher-in-the-name-of-putonghua/#comment-11240 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:49:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=31448#comment-11240 你以为你是谁？ 我就是中国通。 我热爱中国，热爱汉语。 我老公是中国的，我婆婆，我公公，我自己的儿子也是中国人–你才不懂。

]]> By: Truthful https://thenanfang.com/pride-and-shame-student-assaults-foreign-teacher-in-the-name-of-putonghua/#comment-11235 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:27:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=31448#comment-11235 You were treated like trash? Maybe your Mandarin is not as good as you think? Perhaps the people you dealt with just don’t like YOUR self-entitled attitude? Ever consider that? Of course you didn’t.

The fact is that Hong Kongers speak Cantonese- as do most people in Guangdong- and that they have the right to speak the language of their ancestors in the land of their ancestors.

“that poor student” ==> are you delusional?! He assaulted a professor for doing his job! Are you condoning his behavior? Idiots like you make me sick.

I don’t particularly care for Cantonese people/language/culture/etc, but you are just wrong here.

]]> By: Sarah Caroline Gillette https://thenanfang.com/pride-and-shame-student-assaults-foreign-teacher-in-the-name-of-putonghua/#comment-11229 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:46:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=31448#comment-11229 HK’ers are also seriously discriminant against anything and everything Chinese. I’m not even from mainland China, but when I visited HK I tried to speak Mandarin and was basically treated like trash. People, especially young people, would pretend to not understand or say that they weren’t Chinese at all. I can’t imagine how that poor student must feel going through that on a daily basis. HK’ers have an undeserved sense of entitlement and treat outsiders poorly, not just Mainlanders. Is this the monster the Brits intended to create? They have no culture left. They are a homogeneous pot of nothing but suits and ties and commercialism. Is that something to be proud of?

]]> By: Zen my Ass https://thenanfang.com/pride-and-shame-student-assaults-foreign-teacher-in-the-name-of-putonghua/#comment-11227 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:29:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=31448#comment-11227 I thought Cantonese was HK’s main language.

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