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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do you think people with black hair will be paid less?
Do you think whites with black hair will be paid less than whites with blond hair?
Anyone have any experience with this? I have black hair.
10 years 43 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Yea often, much, much less! Butt...you can always dye your hair, so you can be paid equally. Here, most of the teachers have white hair. Even Chinese.
OK now, how can I donate my points to a 'noble cause'?
Divide the world into black and white as you have done. The Chinese fit into the white category, right? Now, most Chinese folks that I have ever run into have black hair. And most have jobs. So, I have just demystified your question.
So, anyway, what did you decide: Spanish or Italian? I suggested Romanian Gypsy. Black hair and a thick black mustache. Good for tickling inner white thighs...
(F**k. Why do I waste my time on this sh*t.)
Californiaz:
I'm not some gypsy. I don't know where anyone got that idea.
I'm going with Italian btw.
Stop with the aversion to these sort of questions, they are legit. There are serious answers to this one (you know, people being helpful) and guess what IT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE A REAL THING. So fuck off (insert your appropriate ethnic slur here).
Indeed!
When I was young and had black hair, I was paid far less than what I made when I was 40 years old, just before coming to China. And you know what? My hair (what is left of it) was salt and pepper grey.
You may have hit upon something!!!!!!!
You can't possibly be serious right??! Are you serious or are you just trolling? When has hair color ever been the difference. Look at Michael Jordan, Lebron James and the highest paid athletes in the world then let me know what you think! Highest paid athlete in the world was Floyd mayweather although he shaves his head he still has black hair!
What about people that shave their heads? Middle of the road?
GuilinRaf:
Those dudes are sold into underground Mixed Martial Arts fights......
Ok, man. Your point is taken. Serious answer to a legit question, although let me preface the answer by stating that there is a lot of sarcasm on this board, posters taking the piss (and not mine, cause I like to drink mine, so you claim in another post! Ha ha!), and, as far as I know, nobody, but nobody on this board is real. Everyone here is anonymous so we're not dealing with real people, but fabricated personae, most of whom are out for a laugh, often at the expense of everyone else but themselves. So, my friend, don't take the sarcasm personally because we are not real - on this board -, including you.
With regard to your hair question, I'm not so sure hair color is as overriding a factor as skin color when it comes to getting a higher-paying job. Whites are lumped into the same category as all other non-Chinese nationals: foreigner. Then you've got the category subsets: white, black, Indian, southeast Asian, ABCs, Filipinos, etc. and differentiation becomes a little more stringent based on criteria that differ from person to person, employer to employer. This is where personal bias comes in, on a case-by-case basis, I imagine. But I'm not an anthropologist so will beg off from any further analysis of the odd stratifications that underpin racial classifications in China.
Anyway, I don't think a blond(e) white person has any greater appeal than a dark-haired white person in China. The overriding feature is skin color. As long as one is white, it really doesn't matter what color the hair. This observation may hold more water in the teaching biz than it would say in the field of engineering or medical research, for example. I know foreigners in both aforementioned areas and they are as diverse as a bag of multicolored jelly beans. Blond engineers, brunette fashion models, Indian doctors, Filipino musicians, etc.
What field are you in? Have you experienced or sensed that you may have been discriminated against because of your hair color? If so, take it with a grain of salt. Most foreigners I know have dark hair and have no trouble getting by in China.
And I'm curious... what exactly is your true nationality? You asked the board in an earlier post whether an assumed nationality such as Italian or Spanish would enhance your social prospects with the ladies in China. (Of course, you opened yourself up - unwittingly, I'm sure - to a great deal of ribbing because that is the nature of this board whose denizens are all a bit wacky, but serious at times. Don't worry about it. Grow a sense of humor and shoot back.)
Italian is a good choice. You can work the myth of the "Italian lover" to your advantage and nobody will be the wiser. The Spanish don't have the same cache in the Casanova department. (No offense to the Spanish. I'm half-Spanish.) But, if you're gonna act the part, you're gonna have to look the part too: clothes, shoes, jewelry, cologne, and maybe a slight hint of an accent when you speak. Not difficult. And you'll need to know what the good Italian wines and the bad Italian wines are so you can speak with authority on the subject should it ever arise. (I prefer the excellent, but pricey Piedmonte reds from the north: Nebbiolo, Barolo, Barbera d'Asta, etc.)
And pizza. Quality and fame vary from region to region. Thin crust pies are my favorite in Italy.
So, yeah. I hope the above helps and good luck!
DaveP84:
For the record, Dave is my real name and that is my real picture. So am I living in a robotic world of not real people?