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Some foreigners might have a little bit of superiority complex, but it's mostly coming from other Chinese treating foreigners better, due to foreign worship and
by analyst74 8y ago
Some foreigners might have a little bit of superiority complex, but it's mostly coming from other Chinese treating foreigners better, due to foreign worship and in some cases institutional rules favoring foreigners, although the later is becoming rare.
Just to give a few examples:
- up until late 2000s, border customs dedicated extra manpower to make entering China easier for foreigners, while Chinese citizens returning home are stuck in long lines.
- not sure about now, but for a period of time, foreigners get preferential treatment in the police system, as in, crimes against foreigners gets more attention, and foreigner committing crimes gets more lenient treatment.
- foreigners sometimes get paid significantly more than locals, especially in the education system, this is still true today.
- ssnistfajen 8y agoI remember my Chinese english teachers in middle school (in early/mid 2000's) complained to us students how they had to regularly stay up until midnight to grade assignments/exams and prepare teaching materials, while foreign teachers get paid double the salary to only teach < 10 hours a week. Older foreign teachers made more of an effort at actually teaching us how to converse like native speakers, while some younger ones were just young adults on gap years and did nothing but teach us how to play hangman/bingo. Chinese schools would hire any native English speaker with a pulse and schools in less-metropolitan cities still do this today.