tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post516887070950658341..comments2024-03-29T07:31:49.016+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: them heathen ChineeKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-66859759227810583272007-11-04T08:38:00.000+09:002007-11-04T08:38:00.000+09:00I have tried to send this comment twice previously...I have tried to send this comment twice previously. I expect to see a note saying it is awaiting moderation. If you receive three comments - sorry.<BR/><BR/>If you comment on the front page of your blog about this comment, I would prefer to be anonymous. Your comments are hard enough to find, that I am not concerned about my name being here.<BR/><BR/>My university has a contingent of perhaps a hundred Chinese Nationals and I teach a class of 15.<BR/><BR/>Not a large number of them, but definitely more than my Korean student classes, will use their cellphones in class, chat while I am explaining things and otherwise devalue the class.<BR/><BR/>Many of the students (I would say most of all, but that would be guesswork- dangerous guesswork, as their employment is illegal) have part-time jobs that they need to pay for their classes and such. For this reason, I am somewhat more sympathetic to their behavior than I would be with my Korean students (If a Chinese student is sleepy in class, I suspect that he worked most of the night. If a Korean student appears sleepy, I assume he was drinking.)<BR/><BR/>It is possible that the calls they receive (possibly send, as well) are work related as are the discussions they have.<BR/><BR/>I am not very sympathetic, mind you, just more sympathetic.kwandongbrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10193395682122475477noreply@blogger.com