International Teaching Advantage is an American company founded to protect teacher's rights. All of the employees in the United States are American. The letter to Judy was a polite way of explaining that many schools in China have conflicting views of what a teacher should look like. Many schools won't hire Asian Americans. Most Chinese schools and Chinese parents want to clearly see that a "foreigner" is teaching their child English. This can make negotiating contracts for Asian Americans to teach English in China extremely difficult. This is just one of the many ironies when dealing with China and the culture.

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