At one point in my life, I thought about going back to Taiwan to teach English. (I left when I was six, and my Chinese is probably as bad as a foreign expat’s Chinese skills living in Taiwan.) But I was discouraged with this article and the experiences of a few of my Taiwanese American friends who moved back to Taiwan to teach English: discriminatory pay. Is this still common practice? taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar … 6/04/38772
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Discrimination and racism are never going to go away. If you can select your race like you select characters in video games, choose to be a White guy if you are reincarnated; I know that i will.
Plenty of students at my school prefer Taiwanese teachers so they can use Chinese instead of English in class.
Some people also told me if I dye my hair black they’ll be less nervous around me since I’ll be more Asian.
Also everyone wants to speak Chinese with me in stores and stuff, they never try to practice their English, like I hear from other foreign people.
Sometimes I think I live in Bizzaro-Taiwan. Though regular Taiwan might be “Bizarro” enough in some ways, so Bizarro-Taiwan should be really normal.
Being white places a lot of pressure on a guy. If we screw up we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Guy + Taiwanese-American is by far the worst combination you could possibly be for finding an English teaching job. You could be a Haitian and have French as a primary language and have a better chance at getting a teaching job.
I’m Taiwanese-American and got an English-teaching job just fine. I went with a larger branch though, so maybe they were not as picky about looks. I did get turned down (over the phone!) when asked for my name and she asked me “Are you caucasian?” and then never called back.
I was on the same pay scale as white foreign teachers, but was requested to tell the students I don’t speak Chinese, otherwise they would be lazy about trying to practice English with me 
It’s such a shame to hear that things haven’t changed. It’s such a bummer.
Being white places a lot of pressure on a guy. If we screw up we have nobody to blame but ourselves.[/quote]
Nah, you can blame others and use your good looks to sweep things under the rug. Most people worship you as gods.
They do??? 
:roflmao:
The hammer of justice needs to come down on the heads of these bigoted schools.
Ah yes … the mighty hammer of Justice … Taiwan style. Behold! I am Thor! But only because I didn’t use enough vatheline.
Discrimination IS justice. Justice is defined by those who have power, and if they want to discriminate, then discrimination is justice.
They do??? :roflmao:[/quote]
Hells yeah! I haven’t been to Taiwan for a while, so I don’t know how that compares to China, but my buddies and I went on a tour of China some years back. We were walking through the Forbidden City, and these cute college age girls walked up to us and asked to have their pictures with us. But when I got in like I normally do, the girls all kinda freaked out, and said something to me. Not understanding them, they used hand gestures to shoo me away.
Yeah, that was an eye opener and a blow to my ego. LOL So yeah, white people totally get worshiped! Oh, and here’s another example. I made an acquaintance in the first class section of my flight to Shanghai last year, and we decided to meet up for dinner. While walking through the Nanjing Dong Rd, we stopped by a shop. It was raining, and the store employees gave my white companion a plastic bag for his umbrella, but not me. I simply ignored such a rude gesture, but after taking a few more steps into the shop, the same employee yelled at me while pointing at my umbrella. I pointed at the pile of plastic bags and asked in English, “Why didn’t you give me one?” She grabbed one and rudely handed it to me, while rolling her eyes.
Man, I wanted to smack her upside the head, but being a Taiwanese American, I didn’t think that could be a good thing.
So yeah, being white gets you lots of worshiping… And I won’t lie. I was kinda envious! LOL
They do??? :roflmao:[/quote]
Hells yeah! I haven’t been to Taiwan for a while, so I don’t know how that compares to China, but my buddies and I went on a tour of China some years back. We were walking through the Forbidden City, and these cute college age girls walked up to us and asked to have their pictures with us. But when I got in like I normally do, the girls all kinda freaked out, and said something to me. Not understanding them, they used hand gestures to shoo me away.
Yeah, that was an eye opener and a blow to my ego. LOL So yeah, white people totally get worshiped! Oh, and here’s another example. I made an acquaintance in the first class section of my flight to Shanghai last year, and we decided to meet up for dinner. While walking through the Nanjing Dong Rd, we stopped by a shop. It was raining, and the store employees gave my white companion a plastic bag for his umbrella, but not me. I simply ignored such a rude gesture, but after taking a few more steps into the shop, the same employee yelled at me while pointing at my umbrella. I pointed at the pile of plastic bags and asked in English, “Why didn’t you give me one?” She grabbed one and rudely handed it to me, while rolling her eyes.
Man, I wanted to smack her upside the head, but being a Taiwanese American, I didn’t think that could be a good thing.
So yeah, being white gets you lots of worshiping… And I won’t lie. I was kinda envious! LOL[/quote]
I think you misunderstand. If they’re gods, they’re the monkey king. Chinese girls want to take pictures of random white tourists because they think they’re amusing. Look at the funny bignoses with their, like, big noses and stuff! It’s like taking a picture with a hippo, except for the getting mauled to death part. Have you never seen a white tourist posing for a photo with some random Taiwanese aboriginal person or African in tribal gear? Same principle.
As for the umbrella thing, she just assumed you were Taiwanese and knew the drill, whereas your white friend was a retard who wasn’t up-to-speed on the various creative methods of trash generation in Taiwan.
Ah, the reverse culture shock!
The mother of all payback.
Chitown262, don’t sweat it. Roll with the punches, to get to what’s real.
also, don’t “get in like I usually do”. Play more of a subtle array.
[quote=“TheGingerMan”]
also, don’t “get in like I usually do”. Play more of a subtle array.[/quote]
Skirt the perimeter and take their rear by surprise 
LOL Shockers are best given when you know what you’re working with.
[quote=“TheGingerMan”]Ah, the reverse culture shock!
The mother of all payback.
Chitown262, don’t sweat it. Roll with the punches, to get to what’s real.
also, don’t “get in like I usually do”. Play more of a subtle array.[/quote]
Yes, the reverse culture shock is the mother of all paybacks in culture shocks! As to entering a store? I have no clue as to how to enter a street front store any differently. Should I walk in like FlavaFlav? 
[quote=“finley”]I think you misunderstand. If they’re gods, they’re the monkey king. Chinese girls want to take pictures of random white tourists because they think they’re amusing. Look at the funny bignoses with their, like, big noses and stuff! It’s like taking a picture with a hippo, except for the getting mauled to death part. Have you never seen a white tourist posing for a photo with some random Taiwanese aboriginal person or African in tribal gear? Same principle.
As for the umbrella thing, she just assumed you were Taiwanese and knew the drill, whereas your white friend was a retard who wasn’t up-to-speed on the various creative methods of trash generation in Taiwan.[/quote]
Hmm… I never thought of it that way. Both my ex-roommates who went to China on a tour with me were not anything unusual for Asians. Their noses weren’t big, they weren’t tall (I’m the unusually tall one being 6’). If anything is unusual for a local person other than their white color, it was their non-slanty eyes.
Precisely.
watch your six, though.
