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Call Me Apple Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:54 am
This is a new fad in China, renting out white people to stand there and look important. Sometimes giving a speech and mingling. Sometimes just sitting in the window of a company doing nothing. Source Many Chinese businesses have figure out that if they have well dressed white people working for them/investing in them ((usually played by actors or models)) other people will want to invest and/or work with them. Quote: "The requirements for these jobs are simple.
1. Be white.
2. Do not speak any Chinese, or really speak at all, unless asked.
3. Pretend like you just got off of an airplane yesterday."
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:01 am
I heard about that on the Colbert Report. Sounds like something I'd like to try out. rofl
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:47 am
xd
I'm sorry, that's just....
rofl
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:48 am
Um...that's just...wow. rofl
Too bad I'm not white, otherwise, I'd apply for that job in a heartbeat, even if I don't live in China. rofl Wonder how much white people would get paid for just...doing nothing?
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:07 am
Too bad I'm Vietnamese and not white. xD That sounds like a job I can do. I barely speak at all, so requirement #2 is a cinch for me. xD
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:20 pm
I guess there is an an advantage to to sticking out like a sore thumb in a place full of Asian people. xd I think I'd be too embarrassed to take that job. White people are probably a prestige symbol in much of Asia I think. It means a company's "international". Why else would Japanese commercials have so many random Westerners? And that's not even counting the Western celebrities . It feels so weird whenever I see a commercial like that. The article was funny though. "Yeah, we have a lot of oil in Scotland."XD
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:24 pm
Maybe I should do that...
pay for my flights to Canada...
I'm whiter than a conservative republican eating Wonder Bread in the middle of the blizzard in Antarctica...
Yes...
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:35 pm
That sounds....interesting, and possibly fun. xd
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Henneth Annun Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:32 pm
I read about that.
I'm jealous of the expats in China now!
White foreigners are used as "window dressing" here in Korea as well, but only to add legitimacy to English academies.
An academy I worked for would hire under-qualified white foreigners over TEFL-certified Asian Americans/Canadians for that reason.
I really wish that would catch on here, though.
I could use the extra money. ㅠㅠ
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:45 pm
LOL yes this is true. Chinese people literally stare at white people xD Which is why I was glad I was Chinese and blended in whenever I went there, now I'm jealous! I would totally take an offer up on that biggrin Never thought this would actually happen ha ha
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:48 pm
Lol, this seems like it'd be an interesting job. How would you tell people what you do for a living, though? Lol.
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:57 pm
I have found my dream job. o:
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:15 pm
I wish they consider Middle-easterners as white people!
So I can do my dream job!
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:36 am
XD If I ever needed a bigger reason to live in China...
Just stand there, look pretty, and speak English? Can do!
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:30 pm
Aratariel I read about that.
I'm jealous of the expats in China now!
White foreigners are used as "window dressing" here in Korea as well, but only to add legitimacy to English academies.
An academy I worked for would hire under-qualified white foreigners over TEFL-certified Asian Americans/Canadians for that reason.
I really wish that would catch on here, though.
I could use the extra money. ㅠㅠ I'm not sure if that's spread to Japan yet, but there does seem to be an odd new commercial trend there. There are all these ones where a Japanese person on on a platform says the features of their product, and then it shifts to show a bunch of Westerners below clapping in awe. I guess it's another prestige thing.
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