@Alien you are completly right in what you say. I am only pointing out a fact that makes me think about how Inconsiusly they push us away. At the same time i am aware that by the time China becomes more multicultural educated (if ever), i might already left, so i accept is not going to change. And i am also aware that there are plenty of foreigners which don´t try very hard either.
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@alien I like your way of making this issue into something positive, like a kids english corner and doing business for the Bar. It is a really nice way. Maybe will never happen, but just the propose of it is really nice.
And somehow what does kids do at those places go against all values that try to integrate foreigners. No education(no personal blame on that, but a reality) and no respect to the foreign community. At the same time, not a bid deal either. There can be many other worse stuff to do. But just saying my opinion.
Maybe is because of my background that i know what it takes to include someone in the local language. Not an easy job.
My place in earth is nowadays in a diglossia situation.
I have worked with kids and with people that is being trained to work with kids (in Europe), and to those people learning how to treat kids are told to speak to them in the local language trying to go behind the skin color.
It is a way of giving what we have to the visitors or exptas or whatever. And somehow you preserve the local costums.
@jopasny most of my speech was off topic, i must apologize again about it. I was not talking about those kids so much, and more about the standar conversation with chinese people.