[Tradewind4]

The thing you have to understand about "teaching English in China" is that it's not really about teaching English. It's really about advertisement and the school trying to sell itself to parents. The school's English teachers are not so much teachers as models or poster boys for the school. The school is not hiring a "teacher" so much for his/her teaching skills as it is for a pretty blue eyed + blond haired face.

In essence, this sort of blatant discrimination is not much different from Western modelling agencies preferring blue eyed blonds.

I was born in Shanghai and moved to the States since age 7. I know from speaking to native chinese and even relatives still living in China that many Chinese (particularly those with new wealth) are incredibly pretencious people. They prefer appearance over substance. These people do care so much that their children learn good English so much as they can tell their neighbors in a gossip that their kids attend some overpriced boarding school with blonds teaching them english. Why would you want to work at a place like that? In 20 years here in the States, I've been back to china twice for a total of 4 weeks.