Re: Teaching English in Japan (as a NON-native English speaker)...or other jobs?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:15:30 +0900, "kuri" <cc@dotmel.cam> brought
down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
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>"Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> 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.
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>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 ?
Why do you assume that I work for random strangers I pass on the
street?
>
>I've said "differently", not "better", not "worse".
My current employer treats me no differently than any of my coworkers.
--
Michael Cash
"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."
Prof. Ernest T. Bass
Mount Pilot College
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