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rabidcake
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
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I actually went ahead and sent him an email saying I disagreed with his ability to understand the situation, that it is far more complex than how he describes it.
Unfortunately, the author goes ahead and paints everyone with the same brush. Sadly, he is on the opposite extreme. The goal here in this article would be to state what he feels is a problem and offer solutions, suggestions, something. Instead it just reads like the quotations from whatever blog post he was looking at. |
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ghostrider
Joined: 27 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Schertzer last time I looked on ajarn.com was down in Cambodia messing up those kids.
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It sounds like he went to China after Cambodia in his most recent blog post. Now he's angry at English teachers who marry "third world peasants" though he considered doing the same thing himself.
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While teaching in a middle school in South Korea, I took three trips to the Philippines to look for a wife....
This reality angers me, but I save the lion's share of my anger and disdain for Western EFL teachers who marry financially poor and uneducated women (usually much younger women) from the third-world. |
http://www.ajarn.com/blogs/steve-schertzer/a-permanent-yes-relationship-to-the-world/ |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| This Schertzer guy sounds like the [vulgarity, graphic] . I pity the poor girl who enters into a long-term relationship with him. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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"He didn’t like the well-paved streets..."
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Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Christ, what an awful article. Surely someone who deems themselves an English professor should be able to write competently. He should also be able to make a consistent, credible argument and back it up with facts. What kind of 'professor' writes such rubbish then decides, "Hey, this is pretty good. I really should get this published."  |
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mayorhaggar
Joined: 01 Jan 2013
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| Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm from Canada and have a six-figured bank account |
IPIC is that you???  |
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sendittheemail
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:14 am Post subject: |
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Taken from the author's website:
Deauwand Myers, currently an English professor and Pedagogical Curriculum Adviser at Shingu University near Seoul, Korea, and a nationally syndicated columnist for The Korea Times, amongst other publications, is a graduate and former Williams Scholar and Lodwick C. Hartley Scholar of Furman University, and holds a master’s degree, with honors, in English literature and literary critical theory from the University of Vermont, where he also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and was recipient of the Opportunity Fellowship. He is also an opinions columnist for The Korea Times.
His Facebook page is intriguing:
https://www.facebook.com/deauwand.myers
As Summarized by a Friend:
"He is writing a book called 'Memoirs of a Gay Shawn'. He wants crowd funding for it, he's raised, wait for it, 20 dollars. The whole deal is now over. I think I'm going to die laughing. He's a minority, he can't get published. He wants you to give him money. He's in Korea, acting as a professor. He hates the whites slagging off Koreans. Of course the KT will publish him. The KT will publish, lets face it, the output of my dog, on crack, with a keyboard sellotaped to its left paw." |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| I'm from Canada and have a six-figured bank account |
IPIC is that you??? |
100,000 won? |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Taken from the author's website:
Deauwand Myers, currently an English professor and Pedagogical Curriculum Adviser at Shingu University near Seoul, Korea, and a nationally syndicated columnist for The Korea Times, amongst other publications, is a graduate and former Williams Scholar and Lodwick C. Hartley Scholar of Furman University, and holds a master’s degree, with honors, in English literature and literary critical theory from the University of Vermont, where he also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and was recipient of the Opportunity Fellowship. He is also an opinions columnist for The Korea Times.
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Twice he claimed to be a "columnist", which would be a staff position. Is he actually on staff at the Korea Times as a columnist or is he lying? |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| sendittheemail wrote: |
Taken from the author's website:
Deauwand Myers, currently an English professor and Pedagogical Curriculum Adviser at Shingu University near Seoul, Korea, and a nationally syndicated columnist for The Korea Times, amongst other publications, is a graduate and former Williams Scholar and Lodwick C. Hartley Scholar of Furman University, and holds a master’s degree, with honors, in English literature and literary critical theory from the University of Vermont, where he also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and was recipient of the Opportunity Fellowship. He is also an opinions columnist for The Korea Times.
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Twice he claimed to be a "columnist", which would be a staff position. Is he actually on staff at the Korea Times as a columnist or is he lying? |
yeah he's lying if you are talking a columnist like say Maureen Dowd of the NY Times but if you use Paul Krugman as the example who is also a NY Times columnist then he's not. Remember Krugman is an econ prof at Princeton.
Big difference between this clown (I would use another term that I use to describe Clarence Thomas) and those guys is he doesn't write REGULARLY for the KT unlike professors like Andrei Lankov who do
and don't get me going on him using the title "Professor"
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El Bandito
Joined: 07 Oct 2013
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| dairyairy wrote: |
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Taken from the author's website:
Deauwand Myers, currently an English professor and Pedagogical Curriculum Adviser at Shingu University near Seoul, Korea, and a nationally syndicated columnist for The Korea Times, amongst other publications, is a graduate and former Williams Scholar and Lodwick C. Hartley Scholar of Furman University, and holds a master’s degree, with honors, in English literature and literary critical theory from the University of Vermont, where he also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and was recipient of the Opportunity Fellowship. He is also an opinions columnist for The Korea Times.
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Twice he claimed to be a "columnist", which would be a staff position. Is he actually on staff at the Korea Times as a columnist or is he lying? |
yeah he's lying if you are talking a columnist like say Maureen Dowd of the NY Times but if you use Paul Krugman as the example who is also a NY Times columnist then he's not. Remember Krugman is an econ prof at Princeton then maybe he isn't.
Big difference between this clown (I would use another term that I use to describe Clarence Thomas) |
Ooooh, what term would that be? Long Dong Silver? |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| It sounds like he went to China after Cambodia in his most recent blog post. |
Wow. That was a depressing read.
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"I spent more than 30 years in Asia", said one American man in his 60's. "I have nowhere else to go."
"I remember you telling me last week that you have a brother in Boston", I said to him.
"Yes, but I haven't seen that son-of-a-bitch in 30 years!"
Another man hasn't seen his children in almost as long. And on and on it goes. Foreign expats in Asia running away from something: The issues run deep and are dangerous to dig up. I've met so many of them; young and old alike in Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, and China. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| El Bandito wrote: |
| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| dairyairy wrote: |
| sendittheemail wrote: |
Taken from the author's website:
Deauwand Myers, currently an English professor and Pedagogical Curriculum Adviser at Shingu University near Seoul, Korea, and a nationally syndicated columnist for The Korea Times, amongst other publications, is a graduate and former Williams Scholar and Lodwick C. Hartley Scholar of Furman University, and holds a master’s degree, with honors, in English literature and literary critical theory from the University of Vermont, where he also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and was recipient of the Opportunity Fellowship. He is also an opinions columnist for The Korea Times.
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Twice he claimed to be a "columnist", which would be a staff position. Is he actually on staff at the Korea Times as a columnist or is he lying? |
yeah he's lying if you are talking a columnist like say Maureen Dowd of the NY Times but if you use Paul Krugman as the example who is also a NY Times columnist then he's not. Remember Krugman is an econ prof at Princeton then maybe he isn't.
Big difference between this clown (I would use another term that I use to describe Clarence Thomas) |
Ooooh, what term would that be? Long Dong Silver? |
not sure if I can say it here but the initials are UT (not the Univ of Texas or Tennessee) |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| not sure if I can say it here but the initials are UT (not the Univ of Texas or Tennessee) |
Taking a shot in the dark, but does the first word mean your mother or father's brother and the last word rhyme with mom? |
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El Bandito
Joined: 07 Oct 2013
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| byrddogs wrote: |
| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| not sure if I can say it here but the initials are UT (not the Univ of Texas or Tennessee) |
Taking a shot in the dark, but does the first word mean your mother or father's brother and the last word rhyme with mom? |
Aw man, I was hoping for something racially inflammatory, as in NOT PC. |
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