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?Diversity,? Chinese Style

?Chinese companies ?rent? white foreigners? CNN reported in June. (HatTip to reader Fred Ray)

For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.

Some call it ?White Guy Window Dressing.? To others, it?s known as the ?White Guy in a Tie? events, ?The Token White Guy Gig,? or, simply, a ?Face Job.?

And it is, essentially, all about the age-old Chinese concept of face. To have a few foreigners hanging around means a company has prestige, money and the increasingly crucial connections ? real or not ? to businesses abroad.

I wonder if any 8(a) consultants from the United States have been involved. Probably not, since here the tokens are put forward to impress the voters, not the public.

Full post as published by Discriminations on October 02, 2010 (boomark / email).