Splitting hairs in my view was when you tried to differentiate between a resume and an introduction. Yes, Ozzie is a definite rotter. But the American may not be one.

You haven't mentioned that there is also a problem with the vetting of applicants' credentials. And in Ozzie's case, he managed to slip through the safety net because of woeful checking of his credentials. So, in my view Ozzie shouldn't shoulder all the blame. I would blame the Chinese for allowing themselves to be so easily duped. Some might say you are a China apologist because of this. But your view may differ from mine, fair enough.

As for your credentials allowing you to pick and choose, that's very good. But not every laowai who wants to teach has good enough credentials to do as you can. I'm including myself in the latter group, just to let readers know I'm no snob, and I know next to nothing about literature, and I don't want to, either.

I agree with you that it's a terrible thing that many dishonest laowai have managed to cheat the vetting procedure re submiiting fake credentials. The places where I've worked nobody among the foreign teachers has been a PhD, real or fake, simply because they wouldn't be on big bucks should they be real or so-called foreign experts as opposed to ordinary foreign teachers.