Posted on 08/27/2013 8:15:27 PM PDT by TexGrill
If youre Caucasian, have a pulse and all your teeth, youre guaranteed an English teaching job in Asia.
This is a running joke in English as a Second Language (ESL) circles, which is indicative that racism abounds in the TEFL industry in the continent.
For those with fair skin and a university degree or an English teaching certificate, finding a teaching job in Asia is uncomplicated and easy as recruiters actively seek the quintessential all-American. For everyone else, racial discrimination is a harsh reality.
In South Korea and China it isnt uncommon to come across job posts that read white color preferred or only white Americans should apply. Employers in Asia operate under a completely different set of legal rules where its the norm to be asked to submit a photograph with your application, or be questioned about your race, religion or age.
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if i want to learn chinese or japanese, i prefer asians...
i don’t see anything wrong with that.
Fax me a crying towel, will ya?
Not the case in Japan . A few years ago a black woman from South Africa - who learned English as a second language - came over with her 3 year old kid to teach at the local high school for 3 years !
Half the time I couldn’t understand what she was saying .
Yo! Someplace where white crackas are welcome! Whoda thunk? Um... er, I mean. Wow, a nation that welcomes white people of European ancestry. What a breath of fresh air.
A young man at the coffee shop today was studying a textbook, The History of Korea. I asked him if he was majoring in Asian Studies. He said no, I’m going over to Korea to teach and I want to learn about the country.
I did the same thing right before I moved to South Korea. I read some Korea history books too. Little did I know that I would end up in China 10 years later instead.
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