Not really but this story is funny. Apparently Chinese employers are willing to rent white people to mull around their facilities acting as employees:
“Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself,” said Zhang Haihua, author of “Think Like Chinese.” “Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner.”
Of course the pay kind of sucks if you ask me:
Zatkin was paid 2,000 yuan (about $300) to fly, along with a couple of Russian models, to a small city in the central province of Henan where he delivered a speech for the grand opening ceremony of a jewelry store there.
But it’s a job so simple anybody could do it… so long as they are white:
The requirements for these jobs are simple. 1. Be white. 2. Do not speak any Chinese, or really speak at all, unless asked. 3. Pretend like you just got off of an airplane yesterday.
I’m white, willing to shut up, and have no problem pretending I just got off of a plane, I could do this. Sweet deal!