Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!not-for-mail From: "kuri" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Teaching English in Japan (as a NON-native English speaker)...or other jobs? Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:15:30 +0900 Organization: BIGLOBE news user Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <4219c504$1@news.broadpark.no> <37u3ckF599dpiU1@individual.net> <4219E12C.1000807@hotmail.com> <4219fa36@news.broadpark.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: air1abi012.ngn.mesh.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: bgsv5648.tk.mesh.ad.jp 1109160934 18766 211.135.189.140 (23 Feb 2005 12:15:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@mesh.ad.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:15:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25700 "Michael Cash" wrote in message > >They are always treated differently unless they find a way to hide that they > >are foreigner. > > Strange, I can't recall having ever found a way to hide the fact that > I am a foreigner. I haven't said that possibility was given to anybody. On the phone, or by e-mail that's easier. >Nor am I treated any differently than any of my > coworkers. So let's say that's "nearly always". You're working for a company where everybody is asked to provide a gaigin card (I've worked occasionnally in such places) or for a bunch of mafiosi that hire you every morning in the street and pay you in cash without checking anything about you ? Anyway, I'm not going to dig in the archives, but you were the one that told here stories about people having very hesitating stares and other unnatural attitudes when they'd see the appearance of the guy driving the truck. Why did you invent those stories ? I've said "differently", not "better", not "worse". Kuri