Chinese companies rent white people

[CptStern]

In China, white people can be rented.

For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.

Some call it "White Guy Window Dressing." To others, it's known as the "White Guy in a Tie" events, "The Token White Guy Gig," or, simply, a "Face Job."

And it is, essentially, all about the age-old Chinese concept of face. To have a few foreigners hanging around means a company has prestige, money and the increasingly crucial connections -- real or not -- to businesses abroad.

lol that whole part of the world (makes wide sweeping motion with outstretched hand in the general direction of the east) is bizarre


http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/china.rent.white.people/index.html?iref=obnetwork

actually I'm surprised the story wasnt about chinese women renting white men because ....you know

 

[No Limit]

Yeah, I saw this somewhere a couple months ago. How awesome is that? Your only job is to sit there and be white. I wonder how much they pay.

 

[Vegeta897]

Kind of the same mentality in America.

"Look at our company, we hire people from all racial groups, we're diverse!"

China is just being more up front about it.

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[CptStern]

apparently pretty good for a days work:

Last year, Jonathan Zatkin, an American actor who lives in Beijing, posed as the vice president of an Italian jewelry company ...Zatkin was paid 2,000 yuan (about $300) to fly, along with a couple of Russian models, to a small city in the central province of Henan where he delivered a speech for the grand opening ceremony of a jewelry store there.

some of you are even qualified for the job:

The requirements for these jobs are simple. 1. Be white. 2. Do not speak any Chinese, or really speak at all, unless asked. 3. Pretend like you just got off of an airplane yesterday.

 

[No Limit]

Kind of the same mentality in America.

"Look at our company, we hire people from all racial groups, we're diverse!"

China is just being more up front about it.

I think for them it's not about diversity but that white people are successful. And if you have a white guy working at your company then you are a really big deal. Makes sense.

 

[Vegeta897]

I know it's not about diversity for them, but it's still the same idea of using race as a status symbol.

 

[VirusType2]

I think for them it's not about diversity but that white people are successful. And if you have a white guy working at your company then you are a really big deal. Makes sense.

Yeah, I would guess the richest businessmen in the world are predominantly white. It makes their company look powerful and successful to have [what looks like] international ties.

 

[Raziaar]

some of you are even qualified for the job:

And you are qualified as well.

After all, you're a Spaniard. Pretty much makes you a possibly darker skinned white dude. A Caucasian like the rest of us.

 

[No Limit]

Yeah, I would guess the richest businessmen in the world are predominantly white. It makes their company look powerful and successful to have [what looks like] international ties.

That's racist.

Nah, I kid. White people rule.

 

[VirusType2]

It is racist. But I guess if the job qualifications are: Caucasian, then it would be acceptable, even in the US.