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I've always noticed that classes I teach where the English is good, the students are usually open-minded, critical of Korea, keen on different countries, and realistic.

Then the classes where the English is just brutal, the students are crazily nationalistic, rude, and often have the "teacher is foreigner and I don't have to listen to him" kind of attitude.

So what comes first? Does being open-minded and willing to change result in good English, or does good English result in an open mind and easing of nationalism?

Yes I realize this is hardly a scientific argument, full of generalizations and flaws, and I'm not exactly working on my thesis here, just wondering if others notice this.