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• The Incheon International Airport Coporatiin announced that it has installed safety fences to stop Chinese mass line-cutting.
• There have been five incidents in which dozens of Chinese people ignored control lines as soon as check-in counters opened.
• They bent over to push their bags under the barricades or rushed into restricted areas, causing chaos.
• Staff members attempting to maintain order were shoved by the crowd, suffering bruises and abrasions.

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As in, they don't really want to socialize with you after work, and they mostly stick to their own groups. Experienced the same thing with international students especially chinese and korean when I was back in the states. Here local teachers they don't seem to want to meet people of different ethnicities and they never seem to approach or invite us foreigners to hang out.

It basically feels like they see us expat teachers as "the help" (while simultaneously complaining that we get paid too much) and not actually colleagues or equals.

On the other hand I have a foreign friend group at the school that is pretty diverse.

For example they have separate group chats where they plan activities like drinks/snacks or events after work. I've even tried making an effort to join in, but sometimes even when I ask it feels like I am being rejected because "i'm not one of them". Then they will turn around and complain that foreigners don't integrate or learn the language.

It feels like there's this invisible wall and sometimes it's just one of those psychological things that wears you down.

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It's not even criticising the government but actually they are pushing stereotypes about 1.4+ billion people. 99% of the time it's also pakistani or chinese astroturfing accounts doing this too.

So sad that in 2026 people think it's all right to say an entire nationality is dirty, backward, dumb etc. Sure India has it's problems but you can criticize India being insulting. And in fact the country's which are astroturfing the India hate namely pakistan and china have problems that are far worse than India. In fact, if you genuinely care about the issues you claim to care about, you should also criticize thouse country's too.

Hey everyone, I'm curious how many of you do teaching as a side gig. I'm looking to do some online tutoring to bring in some extra money; in-person tutoring too if I can get more free time in my schedule. It would be nice to have some extra cash for vacations and nicer stuff.

What's the going rate in your country and how many hours can you spend doing it?

Also if tutoring is technically illegal in your current location for foreigners (it's apparently illegal in mine unless you get a separate work permit) how do you avoid getting caught?

Why could I post with no problems before but suddenly my posts are getting "awaiting moderator approval" (after being visible for a few minutes) or "deleted by reddit's filters" for no reason? Clearly people saw them and then after a while they were also deleted.

I'm a teacher in an East Asian country. I don’t want to too specific because it's a smaller country and there are only a handful of international schools here.

thing I've become increasingly tired of hearing is this idea that some international teachers like myself are only paid more because they're "foreign".

The stark truth is that no business is going to spend tens of thousands of dollars on overseas recruitment, visas, relocation, flights, housing allowances, and other benefits if it wasn't worth it. Simply put we do what local East Asians cannot. We bring something to the table that local hires cannot, and wpuld necer be ablebto do. For example teaching things beyond rote learning and linear thinking. If local hires offered exactly the same value to the school, they would not even be recruiting internationally in the first place.

Also part of an international package is hardship pay.

Locals aren't moving halfway around the world & leaving behind family and friends. They aren't havingbto adapt a new culture or learning a new language. They are not going to experience xenophobia or racist microaggressions on a daily basis. They can often live at home meaning they're not renting. Also they don't have to pay inflated prices for imported products and foods from home. Local teachers don't have to uproot their entire lives just to show up to work on Monday.

I hear things like, "Why should foreigners get paid more than locals?" That's just a socially acceptable way of saying, "Foreigners are taking our jobs." Dress it up however you want, but it's the same argument with nicer wording.

I've seen a lot of people complain that Reddit has an absurdly high barrier to entry. Especially with things like needing Karma to participate in some subs, New accounts getting comments filtered by AutoMod, and so on.

But I actually think this is one of Reddit's strengths.

The internet is awash with coordinated influence campaigns, commercial spam, and bad-faith actors. Reddit has been a target for state-backed information operations from countries like Russia, Iran, and China, along with general spam farms. Another problem is racist and reactionary hate speechnthat never truly goes away. If it was too easy for anyone to create unlimited accounts that could immediately participate everywhere, every major subreddit would be flooded.

The same friction also makes it harder for communities to be overwhelmed by people who exist only to provoke or spread hate. Racists, homophobes, and other reactionaries often rely on disposable accounts after bans. Requiring account age, karma, and other trust signals raises the cost of that behavior.

If anything actually Reddit should go even further.

At this point Reddit is no longer a niche website trying to grow at all costs. It's one of the largest discussion platforms on the internet. I don't think maximizing new signups should be the priority anymore. Preserving the quality and authenticity of discussion should.

I'd support mandatory phone verification for every account, and I'd even be open to mandatory identity verification similar to Facebook. Your real name wouldn't have to be public, but Reddit itself would know you're a real person with a unique identity rather than someone operating dozens or hundreds of disposable accounts.

People often talk as though being able to post on Reddit or any website for that matter is some kind of right. It isn't. Using any private platform is a voluntary agreement between two parties. Reddit is free to set whatever conditions it believes are necessary to protect the health of the site, and users are free to decide whether those conditions are acceptable. If stricter verification means higher-quality discussions and fewer bad actors, I think that's a worthwhile tradeoff.

Reddit already has a massive user base. It doesn't need explosive growth anymore. It needs to protect what made the site valuable in the first place. In my view, a high barrier to entry isn't a flaw—it's one of the reasons the platform has remained more resilient than many other social networks.