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Softer: When I took a break from marketing to teach for 16 years. As much as I make jokes about students growing on you like warts, it was absolutely a joy to watch things like the slow but steady development of knowledge and confidence, not to mention those "AHA!" moments you can see in their eyes when something finally clicks.

Colder: Specifically toward the west. Despite having come to China as a complete banana, I find myself increasingly alienated at western parochialism and it superiority complex. The big trigger for this was COVID-19 where the west—EVERYWHERE in the west!—handled it miserably while China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc. did things remarkably well. Yet everybody in the west was talking up Germany or Sweden or whatnot for having handled COVID-19 well despite them being one to two orders of magnitude WORSE in outcomes than the nations I mentioned. That was when I decided to stop giving a shit about people dying of COVID-19 in the west and this has extended, too, to the current political crises popping up all over as fascists are once again rearing their ugly heads and making grabs for power.