Apparently, this is from 2012. Even then, it was horeshit even then I bet. I know little about China. But I did live there in the summer of 2005 teaching in

Apparently, this is from 2012. Even then, it was horeshit even then I bet. I know little about China. But I did live there in the summer of 2005 teaching in Nanning (the former industrial hub running south to Vietnam, not Nanning the tourist trap). Others have described the phenomenon. Rich Chinese families would hire white kids as tokens; tutors who lived with their children to teach their offspring "real English." I was not an exception; I found even a few in the same city. The family I lived with was one of the richer families in my region. I thought the father ran a mid-level pharam company. Then I visited the site/office. It was a huge. Then people pointed out ads for this company on national Chinese TV, and billboards in other region on a family trip in the next province over and way south in Beihai (is that what it's called, maybe HNers can remind of the most southern Chinese beach areas near Vietnam; I forget). I found out he was a moghul for one of the biggest emerging pharma companies in the region. Guy had a 7 series BWM with televisons built in, and a differenr Rolex for every day and a duplex penthouse apartment in the super wealth part of town. So why all the background info? This guy visited America, when he saw me at lesst, twice after this in the following five years. They talked about moving to the US repeatedly (the reason my language tutoring was relevant at the time). But it never happened. Even by the time I was there, post-9/11 backlash had fucked many Chinese over. Visa restrictions made things a nuissance, and the wealthy grew sick of it. Some of the kids from other families even moved to Australia, the new it place, because at least "they were not American with their visa and residency regimes." The wife had been blacklisted for no reason at all; attorney friends had contacts at the US Embassy, and was told she was put on a list after the interview phase with a black mark like "do not approve residency visa bc this woman is shady." Why the meek wife (who was a stay at home mom her whole life) and no one else in the family is a mystery to me. This dude could have opened up businesses to the tune of 500K bank deposits, according to my attorney dad, and naturalize very quickly, and the other lawyers who wanted to help and get an in to the business he would put out for them. He did not, and others did not either. The US had already become toxic. They invested in our economy, but they would even ask me to explain why we so were worth it economically to them, but the USG would routinely fuck around with rhetoric and policy clash with China. "We are your economic friends, why treat us like enemies?" (Obviously both sides are complete disallusionment with the other if they really believe this.) So, none of those people moved. They invested all damn day in US and Western business, but only enough to get paid and avoided "the dream" of moving to the West as elites, being prestigious (as those to even have the opportunity). Ironically, as a nation, we earned our devalution abroad. People will buy from us, but no one wants to be US (that is a joke, enjoy).