>>2927181My business is teaching English as a second language. Most white people here are de facto tourists working for a year or so as English teachers to pay the bills. They aren't real teachers and have no skills or long-term investment in their work as a profession. So the assumption everyone in the industry makes is that the best way to deal with white people is to put them in the classroom as glorified advertising material so that the parents can smile as they watch their snotty kids saying "gut-bai" to a real live white foreigner as they leave the English center.
I'm in my company for the long-term and have as many responsibilities in management and course planning as I do in actual classroom work. I don't even teach in an English center-- most of my classroom work is with helping government employees raise their English certification levels. But when I tell people my job, usually they just smile and say "OK, that's nice, so what English center do you teach at?"
It really grinds my gears, anon.