[QUOTE=Dale Dugas;2660641]There is really no need to go to China.
There are such a plethora of teachers with skills here in North America, Canada, and the UK that are much easier to meet and train with.
Also why give the communists any more money to keep up with their craptacular regime?[/QUOTE]
And why study in the US, the (by far) biggest asshole bullying fuckwits on planet earth, number one for making war, prison inmates, pollution, consumption… (let me get started on real bullshido, the chicken hawks that ran us into Iraq, Kuwait, Panama, etc etc), run last by felon Cheney and now liar Obama?
As a Chinese lady told me many years ago, our government isn’t me.
Cheap good food, cute girls, what’s there not to like?
Yes one should go live in China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia etc etc. It broadens one’s understanding - for instance did you know that from bases in Thailand, US planes during the Vietnam war would drop any unused bombs on Laos when heading back from Vietnam? And that and ten gazillion bomblets and mines we left make it so that on the average day one Laotian, usually a male child, gets killed and several get maimed? GO USA! GO USA! When asked about MIAs in Laos (and there are at least several) the Laotians pretty much said, go fuck yourself, we have 300,000 MIAs and it’s your fucking fault! So yes, travel Asia and get pissed at the arrogant asshole French, the drunk Aussies, the drunker Russians, the Chinese buying SE Asia, and all the ugly white American men with their little slant eyed wives. And in Chungking you can even go to the museum of USA manufactured torture devices that “we” gave Chiang Kai Shek (aka corrupt gangster of heroin / leader of “Free China” etc etc); good stuff!
When my daughter lived outside Chendu the fad was TKD - the local CMA guy was teaching TKD as no Chinese wanted to pay money to do CMA. So she did TKD. In Yongshuo I found a decent Tai Chi / wu shu school (with largely western students) and I saw people working out in various Chinese cities (usually before dawn) but didn’t look like anything I’d spend too much time with (kata based stuff). In Hong Kong there’s everything, but it’s pricy.