China, China, China…
“Look at herself lah. She’s yellow too.”
“Yellow” as in Chinese. My [subject] teacher never fails to boost my already immense disgust for her. She’s already deemed me as a “slacker”, which is false, from the New Zealand school trip 2 years ago. But long-held vendettas aside, she just sucks ass. God, I wonder where the hell they find teachers like her these days. There’re some teachers who really ought to leave us as we are and stop acting as though they care, because it’s obvious that they don’t. They despise kids, I can tell. They are the sort who wouldn’t come to work if it weren’t for the salary.
Anyway, about this teacher. I learn nothing which isn’t already printed in the notes or textbook from her. In fact, I’m learning something new about China every lesson. Yes, China. No, scratch that, I’m learning something about how cunning and merciless China is in every lesson.
China this, China that. China’s copying Singapore’s method of improving the economy, China’s people are killing animals for chuckles and giggles, China is the epitome of ripping-off products, China tourists are rude and loud, China still practices communism, China’s contributing so much to pollution, China’s people eat cats and dogs, China copies Starbucks, yadidada.
Today was the real clincher.
“They [China people] kill bears for gall you know. Dunno why people in China keep killing animals and eating dogs and cats, maybe that’s why they die easily. It’s retribution for killing those animals.”
What. The. Fuck.
She has just brought my disgust to a whole new level – Disrespect.
I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard that, she had just flippantly accused China’s high mortality rate [whether or not it's high, I don't know. She would say it's high] due to karma for killing animals. The problem with her statement is that she assumes she’s morally superior than the China people because she doesn’t kill animals, thus she won’t “die easily”. She’s no a vegetarian. How is eating a dead animal, killed by those very China people she loathe so much, more superior than killing it?
I hope her words will come back to haunt her in a form of a cruel irony, like choking on a piece of $90 New Zealand steak which was slaughtered by a 90 year old Chinese peasant.
Then I realised that all the little, seemingly harmless judgments that she had slipped – such as concluding that the people who leave behind popcorn in cinemas are stupid, thus wasting a whole half-hour of the lesson – all hit the same bottomline: She thinks she’s better. She boasts about her parenting skills and accuses others for harboring elitist prejudice while hypocritically, she practices prejudice herself, no matter how “rational” she may try to reason.
Oh, and does the word “responsibility” ring any bells to her? It’s unethical to influence your students’ judgments with your own biased ones. You may say it’s what the students make out of her words which count, but there’s no freeing her from fault. She’s still carelessly revealing her ideas which she is probably unconsciously trying to instill in us.
Not that I’m defending China. All of what she says about China is probably true, but it’s her intentions behind it and the lack of open perspective that is the problem. Every country, including the most developed ones, has their own screwed-up shit, I don’t understand why she’s being particularly critical about China. China people may eat dogs and whatever other weird things, but there’re crazy people in places like Germany who practice cannabalism, so why throw all the crazy talk on China? Maybe some China tourists like, I don’t know, accidentally bumped into her while she was on her luxurious trip to the Alps, and her fur coat got dirty or something.
She portrays China as some copying-crazed country. But whatever. I believe China has some good qualities too, take that and smoke it, anti-China teacher.
So Sarah said, “She seems to have forgotten that her ancestors were from China too. And she’s yellow lah, she thinks she’s so ang moh.”
If she reads this and complains to the year head, I don’t care, because I have every right to lose respect for her.
Where have all the good teachers gone?! Teachers who don’t disdain China.
3 Responses to “China, China, China…”
we hate her toO!
Haha! Hi Royce. 4C hates her too 
Errr almost.
totally agree. she sucks to the maximum.she bitched about the people on the MRT and how they hogged the poles the lesson before our MYEs