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[Hollywoodaction]

[Hollywoodaction]

[waterbaby]

I met a Korean girl recently who studied in Australia and pretended to be Japanese as most of her classmates were Koreans - she became good friends with a few Korean girls and only spoke English with them (and they with her) and kept this up for her 3 months stay!

[tomato]

Waterbaby, haven't heard from you in a long time!
Where have you been?

Someone on this message board suggested that trick for foreigners in Korea wishing to avoid Koreans speaking to them in Korean: if you have some proficiency in a third language, pretend to be a native speaker of that third language and pretend not to know English.

The people of Argentina are lighter-skinned than most other native speakers of Spanish, so I have sometimes wanted to pretend to be from Argentina. I haven't had the confidence to try that, though.

[PEIGUY]

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[Hyalucent]

Regardless of NB claiming to be seeking immigrants... government says one thing and does the opposite. They also whine about the problem they have filling teaching and nursing positions: so why every few years do they do rounds of lay offs?

There is a program in place now to attract Chinese investors. Any who wish to partner up with a local firm and invest $120k while still maintaining a minority control can get their permanent residency fast-tracked. The company next door to me has apparently gone this route. Still, I posted a while back on how the Chinese students in Saint John were being pelted with eggs and profanity at bus stops from yokels driving by... and SJ is our second largest city. It could be a backlash against "too much" investment, if there is such a thing, as newspaper stories had been talking about a Chinatown growing up in Saint John with the Chinese buying up property there, hand over fist.

On a positive note, the Germans in the bakery accross the street just passed their citizenship test last week so we are getting some immigrants.