If you’re white and have been battling the American job market to no avail, consider packing up your bags and moving to China. Chinese companies are willing to pay a premium price to rent white people anywhere from a day up to two months to play the role of fake business partners or employees. It apparently lends more credibility to the company and makes it look more impressive.
Zhang Haihua, author of “Think like Chinese,” explains the thought mechanics behind this phenomenon:
“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.”
They hire guys with aliases like Brad Smith. Smith posed as an architect from New York and was assigned to give out museum design plans to local officials in Hangzhou. Sometimes they’ll hire a white person to sit near office windows so that customers will get a glimpse of the foreigner and assume he or she works for the company. If you’re a woman, you might be hired as a fake foreign girlfriend.
Anybody want to rent a half Japanese, half Chinese girl to pose as a CEO? You know how to reach me!
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LOL, how sad! I am white and trust me, if they knew some of the white guys and gals I know they would not think they are smarter than anything.
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