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Chinese Companies Rent White Foreigners
The job market may look bad here, but if you're in China, and you happen to be white, all you need is a suit and tie. An increasing number of Chinese companies are willing to pay any price to have a few fair-skinned faux employees walking around. From the article: "'Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself,' said Zhang Haihua, author of Think Like Chinese. 'Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner.' Or rent one."
They rent us because we can pronounce our L's and R's
If the Chinese hire them to hang out around the water cooler, does that make them coolies?
The gift that keeps giving.
This is news?
I rent people all the time in Amsterdam's red light district!
if you throw a party, you have to put out crackers
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Just being realistic about future prospects?
So you say you slept through the Clinton administration? That's a long sleep, how did you do that?
Don't forget - big fat americans must also be rich to afford so much food! That means they are not only hiring foreigners, but wealthy foreigners too!
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The other white meat.
Once they start producing their own generic clones, the price will go through the floor.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
WHERE DA WHITE WOMEN AT!?!?!