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[ChinaEFLteacher]

thanks for the reply, ex
there are some people who will judge a person on the country they're from, though. with those people, we americans have will have less respect due to bush. it's nice in china because the people care so little about politics, although at the inception of the iraq war i was constantly asked my opinion. of course i said, bu tong yi(don't agree), but i wonder what the reaction would have been if i'd said i agree. regardless, i agree, we're all fundamentally responsible for our own behaviour and should be judged as individuals first; but no one can be completely free from the actions of their govt.

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China, just so. And it so happens that I was indeed asked once in an Adult English class what my thoughts were of our war in Iraq. I asked very politely not to be confronted with this question. They pressed me. Several times I tried to beg off, telling them, "I can assure you that you don't want to hear what I'd have to say." Still, they pressed me. So I told them. Pissed some of them off. We stared each other down until I finally asked them to answer this question truthfully, if indeed they dared: "Just what do you think Beijing would do if it were attacked by Middle East terrorists?"

China Person, you're in a sometimes extremely uncomfortable, even untenable, place. But if it becomes too uncomfortable for you, you have something the Chinese can only envy: a foreign passport and the means and freedom to use it in plenty of other venues.

Very Best of luck to you!
ex

[Roger]

[ChinaEFLteacher]

reply to ex,
although it might be uncomfortable here, it's not much worse than the land we both call home.
you might want to check your facts, but bush and his cronies are not from the middle east, therefore why should we have started a war there? we need to be looking closer to home for the real criminals, much closer.