底下国际法眼尖："Yao" obviously comes from the habit of using pinyin.

”let's start with ...." - typical作文写法。

"outside civilized world" - are you kidding me? 老美faculty不会这么说。

"my feeling" 如何 - 老美小孩才这么说。

其他的如罗嗦：”as a faculty member and researcher" - 废话。