CindyN (US)
The worship mentality is right, but it's on the Chinese towards Westerners, not the other way around. I am a businessman and have traveled to China for years. Many Chinese have an inferiority complex, and a 'Western worship' mentality. 'White guy in a tie', where uneducated white people are hired to pretend to be executives in China, is just one example. It's well known that Asians are obsessed with western branded products, and white faces are plastered all over malls, commercials, and in movie theaters. Less educated and less talented white teachers are routinely hired, and paid more, over other candidates. In China, the Chinese think it's cool to do business in English or to ask people to address them by an adopted English name, even among other Chinese colleagues.
Foreign English teachers celebrate Teachers' Day with their students at Hailiang International School in Zhejiang province on Sept 9, 2013. |