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cheolsu
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If you were born in Canada, why would a white person speak better English than you?
I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 8. I've had some problems getting a job as a dark-skinned male, but they're mostly humourous anecdotes from places I wouldn't have wanted to work at anyway. Incidentally, two of them were SLP hagwons (Bupyeong, Songpa). |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Sex is always an option when it comes to landing a decent job. |
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dyc
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| cheolsu wrote: |
If you were born in Canada, why would a white person speak better English than you?
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Just saying that there is an assumption most people make when they see someone with East Asian features.
Also, I know some people who are first generation Chinese-Canadians that spend all their time speaking Cantonese and have pretty horrid English.
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| I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 8. I've had some problems getting a job as a dark-skinned male, but they're mostly humourous anecdotes from places I wouldn't have wanted to work at anyway. Incidentally, two of them were SLP hagwons (Bupyeong, Songpa). |
So not really a huge issue? |
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Ice Tea
Joined: 23 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| dyc wrote: |
Not to hijack the thread, but I'm ethnically Chinese and look the part. I'm pretty much "whitewashed" though (born and raised in Canada, never learned Chinese, etc).
However, I would like to think that my English ability is better than lots of white people I know.
Would I have a hard time landing a hakwon job? |
American Reality: Results matter.
Korean Reality: The perception of results matter. |
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