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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's called being Chinese = exceedingly polite.

We get it, hardly anybody at YY cares that most of the kids speak strange, crappy Mandarin. Parents don't even care that the admins don't speak it. Parents think their kids are fluent if they hire a tutor and don't care how they will perform on international baccalaureate tests. Draw your own conclusions.

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[b]I have traveled to China (Beijing, Dalian, Shanghai and HK) several times, and I wouldn't call the Chinese "exceedingly polite."  Quite the opposite, really--often pushy and rude.  However, that's for another conversation.  [/b]

That said, I don't think that it should surprise anyone that native Mandarin speakers would say nice things about your child's poor Chinese.  Honestly, very few people, no matter their native tongue, will tell a parent that their child doesn't speak the non-native language very well.  If the child's Mandarin, Spanish, French, etc. sucks, the native speaker will most likely say nothing (to your face) or they will lie like a rug.     [/quote]

Lumping all these diverse cultures into one and calling them rude - maybe the common theme is you?[/quote]

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