> I've seen a lot of what you're talking about, both in Korea and in
> Taiwan--discrimination against Asians from English-speaking
> countries. Recently, my former boss here in Taiwan told me by e-mail
> that she was looking for a new foreign teacher. I told her about a
> person who came to the U.S. from Taiwan in early childhood and who
> possessed native-speaker fluency and was good with kids. She e-mailed
> back that she was looking for a white person.

> I'm at a loss for words about that, except to say that it doesn't
> make sense.

> Have you considered looking for jobs teaching TOEIC and TOEFL? Also,
> if you're fluent in an Asian language, have you thought about looking
> for editing, writing, and translating jobs?

> razoo

Very sorry, Razoo, I missed your message.
As a retired Chinese-Canadian teacher, I have very good pensionS for a comfortable life, but while facing the numerous un-employed oriental immigrants in Canada, I thought I could do something by going helping them there and visit the places at the same time. Yet, I have never felt so humiliated like this. Though I have taught in China for 5 years in 5 different places, the process had been very discouraging. Some of the ads would directly advertize for "young","female","qualified or not", "Caucasian","experience not necessary",etc. Was that for education?
I can easily get a part-time teaching job here with more pay. I turned down several offers. I would take less if I could go to another country, to know the people and the places. I even tried learning Korean and Japanese in case. In one time I even taught in Zhangjiajie for free because they could afford. I found there is a grave problem in ESL education!
The students I taught still keep emailing me with greetings and problems, but most of the administrators never, because I always fought with them for the students benefits.
Alex Wu