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| Vote for which nationality of ESL teachers seems most represented in Japan. |
| Australians |
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26% |
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| Americans |
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34% |
[ 9 ] |
| Kiwis |
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3% |
[ 1 ] |
| Brits |
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15% |
[ 4 ] |
| Canadians |
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15% |
[ 4 ] |
| Irish |
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3% |
[ 1 ] |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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Location: Hong Kong
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 Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: Nationality of most ESL teachers in Japan? |
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| Just trying to get a feel for the expat ESL crowd in Japan. Vote for which nationality of ESL teachers seems most represented in Japan. |
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drifter13
Joined: 27 Mar 2007
Posts: 124
Location: Fujisawa
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Proud Canuck over here. I kind of messed up cause I didn't read the question right, but I'd say in my area there are more Australians and UK guys, followed evenly by Canadians and Americans. |
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Mahik
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Won't this only really cover the few members of these forums who decide to respond?
I always thought that teachers in Japan were mostly Aussies. |
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wabisabi365
Joined: 04 Feb 2007
Posts: 111
Location: japan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Canadienne... go Habs! |
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Eva Pilot
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 351
Location: Far West of the Far East
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:50 am Post subject: |
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I saw a poll and I thought LARS was back. 
Australian here by the way. |
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Miyazaki
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
Posts: 635
Location: My Father's Yacht
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| drifter13 wrote: |
| ...I'd say in my area there are more Australians and UK guys... |
I don't know when this happened, or if it's always been this way, but I have worked in schools where the entire teaching staff has been Australian or mostly British.
For such a small country (population wise), how did Australians get to dominate the EFL industry in Japan?
NOVA head of foreign staff is an Australian, for example, as are many of their AM, AAM, Head Trainers, etc.
British are right up there also.
Yet, you go over to Korea, and the Canadians have a stronghold on the EFL scene there. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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Location: Hong Kong
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Miyazaki wrote: |
| Yet, you go over to Korea, and the Canadians have a stronghold on the EFL scene there. |
SO TRUE. Everything is Canada over here in Korea. Most of the institutes and teachers. Most assume you are Canadian until you tell them you are not, and then they forget five minutes later they refer to you as one of the Canadian teachers.
It's a Canadian's world over here in Korea.
Interesting that Australians are commonplace in Japan. |
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Mahik
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd assume that's because Australia is relatively close to Japan so perhaps more Australians are willing to travel there for work? And don't the Japanese prefer to learn British style English? |
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southofreality
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Mahik wrote: |
| I'd assume that's because Australia is relatively close to Japan so perhaps more Australians are willing to travel there for work? |
I'd have to agree. Most Australians are probably not willing to sit through the extra 40 minutes or so it takes to make it all the way to Korea so they just tend to settle down in Japan.
In fact, Many Aussies just settle and move to even-closer destinations like Vietnam and Thailand so they can row home on the weekends. |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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I always thought there were more Americans than anybody else, nationwide, teaching EFL.
The JET program is heavily weighted to Americans, Japanese people are always asking where in Amelika you are from, more than half of the private ALTs I know are from the US.
I think certain areas might have pockets of other nationalities, but Japan's love affair with the States doesn't seem to be ending. I blame the stripes on the US flag. Japanese people always make circus tents out of the interior of places when they have celebrations by hanging these red and white striped paper around the entire thing. So now they when they see the US flag, they somehow think it's going to be a party. That, plus the fact that life in Japan revolves around power relatioinships and the US won against Japan in a war. If Korea had beaten the Japanese down, then entered Japan and put them into slavery for forty years, then right now the Japanese would LOVE Korea.  |
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Apsara
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
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In my experience, Americans, followed by Canadians and Australians about equally, then Brits, then Kiwis, then Irish. Australia isn't that much closer to Japan than the US is, by the way, you're still looking at about 9 hours flying time.
Any ideas why South Africans are so under-represented? I don't think I've ever come across one here. |
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flyer
Joined: 16 May 2003
Posts: 539
Location: Sapporo Japan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| yeh I don't meet too many fellow kiwis |
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RingofFire
Joined: 22 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:39 am Post subject: |
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| Mahik wrote: |
| And don't some of the Japanese prefer to learn British style English? |
I don't know if the boards around here have a "fixed your post  " tradition, but there it is...
My nationality is New Yorker, btw. I teach New York English. American is some other thing. Some of my students have preferred British English, only because they have had British teachers. Most of the time, though, they are amused by the semi-"cosa nostra" accent. |
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cornishmuppet
Joined: 27 Mar 2004
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Location: Nagano, Japan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| I seem to meet mostly Americans/Canadians. I think the fact that a lot of markets, i.e. Europe, are off limits to them due to visa issues and therefore are laden with UK nationals has something to do with it. |
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chollimaspeed
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| Why didn't you have "Other" in the poll? |
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