Pretty sure I explained this already.
Iāl bet youāve never seen a white westerner working construction either.
Do you think thereās 15 to 20 white guys bangin on the foremanās trailer door every day beggin to get hired on for NT$110/hr and they get turned away because the boss is racist???
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I heard some of them can do quite well. And construction is booming industry here. Maybe the whitie has nothing else going on. Youāre not making convincing arguments.
yours?
The kids are alright
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What westerner would come to Taiwan to work a min wage jobs?
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Sounds like a great gimmick. 
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How much do missionaries earn? 
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They earn a place in Heaven. 
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It would never be 110nt an hour for construction . Iām not sure of the rates, but that wouldnāt attract anybody to do hard work surely. The basic construction wage (legal workers ) is higher than minimum wage which is 150nt/hr.
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I heard some can do quite well
Yeah, but itās a long train journey. On a scale from riding on the roof of the local service to sitting in first class high speed, where are (western) missionaries in Taiwan?
Yeah, they make a lot more than that. Itās dangerous and low status work, and people arenāt stupid. Most people would much rather take lower pay for an office job.
Donāt they just come for a year or two though? Itās not a dead end option like being a furriner working at a Famima in Aichi Prefecture.
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Yeah, this is pretty uncontroversially true. The racism my wife experiences in her limited time in Europe (specifically, from worst to least, France, Spain, Italy, and England) is far greater than anything she faced in living in the US. Iāll add that virtually every Asian country weāve been to has been much worse than the US as well.
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Yeah, well, France is France ā no argument there! 
But today the SCMP has an article about Chinese Italian entrepreneurs suffering racism and violenceā¦
ā¦and yet there is nothing in the article to support the racism claim, neither anecdotally nor scientifically. I need to see something with substance to take the claim seriously.
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in the summer you could find ex white constructors in the emergency burns unit. They barbecue easily on the 15th floor in mid June.
The racism claim is attenuated, but there is certainly evidence of it in the article, even if it isnāt dispositive. The song lyrics and the saying about Chinese behavior certainly point to racist attitudes. The Chinese-Italians claiming that their interests arenāt being protected by the government also speaks to this.
However, the article title, and even more so the claim that racism and xenophobia are on the rise, arenāt sufficiently supported in the article. I suspect, though, that it wouldnāt be too hard to find evidence that it is true.
The song certainly can be interpreted as racist. (Btw what āsaying about Chinese behaviorā is mentioned in the article?)
āChinese bars are everywhere, and the cappuccino is in a state of shockā. So go the translated lyrics of a slightly xenophobic 2013 Italian pop song by the Milanese duo āIl Genioā about Chinese migrants taking over neighbourhood cafes in northern and central Italy.
But if it were about blacks/Syrians/Afghans/etc., Iām sure at least one regular around here would describe it as a song about culture, not race.
I donāt know Il Genio, so I donāt know what theyāre trying to express. I donāt trust goo-tran, but I would welcome a genuine Italian opinion.
The lyrics btw: https://genius.com/Il-genio-bar-cinesi-lyrics
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