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[quote=JABAROOTOO              ,11339]Hi Rita, Thanks for your warm and welcome gratitude.  I know a lot of people in China feel this way too.  I know we do not always understand and appreciate your culture and visa versa but one of the reasons so many of us are here is becuase we want to learn about it and to share ours with the people of China.We are different dispite our similarities and we will always be foreigners and that is OK. The facts are there, but is nice sometimes to be referred to as Americans, Australians or French rather than all bunched together under the general term of Lao Wei or Weiguoren which is often hurled at us behind our backs. Funnily enough it is also one of the first if not sometimes the only Chinese word many of us learn because we hear it spoken so often. I learned it early as my first school was the foreign language school. 'wei guo yu xue xiao'Yes it is hard to adjust to all the things you mentioned, we come here having made that choice that we will at least try.  Our lifestyle is still much easier than the average Chinese person and sometimes even better in some aspects than in our own countries, and dispite all the other sacrifices, it has been worth it for me at least and I am sure many others would feel the same or we wouldn't stay.Where else can you get a two hour massage for just $5.00 to name just one of the benifits.  maybe we can start a list of them.[/quote]

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