Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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AndyKK wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2017 1:33 pm Its easy for something said or written to offend.
The job post is advertising for a qualified white skinned female Khmer, with excellent English skills. Like I say my lady is Khmer black skinned, should she think it is a racist remark?
The first part of the advert is racist and sexist (and would be illegal in all OECD countries) the second part is impossible (oh sorry, was that racist?)
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Gilmore wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2017 1:16 pm My school gets constant requests from parents to employ Western teachers. We don't comply, but certain policies have evolved over more than 20 years.
Asian teachers are preferred to Western teachers at Primary and kindergarten. It isn't a matter of salaries, but a belief by administration that they are better suited to the role.
There is no discrimination at Secondary level, which I head. However, past experience has shown us that non-native speakers cannot cope effectively with the rigorous demands of the Cambridge International English curriculum, which focuses on advanced linguistics and/or literature studies. It's a far cry from ESL.
Do these policies make our school racist? If so, are we anti-Asian or anti-white?
Sounds logical and sensible. It would be illegal in the West, but so what if it makes sense. This is the problem in the West, in order to destroy racism and sexism, the authorities also felt they needed to make illegal any generalisation based on race or gender. And generalisations must necessarily be valid (unless they are false generalisations). In this way a lot of wisdom and sensible business practice was lost. BTW, presumably you discriminate when it comes to pay rates? It's not illegal in Cambodia and you would naturally follow the market?
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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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armchairlawyer wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2017 1:40 pm The first part of the advert is racist and sexist...

All they have to add is:
No gimps or lesbians...
:facepalm:
You could be next.
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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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Don't worry folks. This is the future of the English language. It will be easy for everyone to speak (and teach) regardless of religion, race, creed or color as well as sexual orientation and gender identity:

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

Some samples

Jogging woman wey dey always poo-poo for somebody dormot

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-41317443

Bill Gates: 'Nigeria dey important'
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41364487

Hugh Hefner: Five things you fit bin no sabi about am
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41426249

Informate me!
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I may be going to hell in a bucket,
but at least I'm enjoying the ride.
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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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You know the difference between a pidgin, creole and language, right? One of the reason Caribbean English is hard to understand is because the words translate first and then the grammar comes afterwards. So Jamaicans tend to speak English with West African grammar. Depends on how long you have been exposed. It also works both ways, the Chinese have given us "no can do" as a phrase, a reverse pidgin.
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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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phuketrichard wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2017 9:55 am
frank lee bent wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2017 9:31 am i guess everyone has heard the regional proverb about what to do if you meet a snake and a black man in the forest.
they say to kill the black man first.
racism is overt and entrenched in the region since the Indians came thousands of years ago.
not my opinion, but my opinion will change nothing
Thais have changed this to read , "if u meet a snake or an Indian...." :beer3:
Actually, the way I heard it in Thailand is:

If you are in the forest and you meet a snake and an Indian and only have 2 bullets, shoot the Indian twice to make sure he is dead and take your chances with the snake.

Cambodia would probably change Indian to Vietnamese

The only way to rid the world of racism is to rid the world of humans. Then you'll be left with the basic tribalism displayed by other social primates, but they aren't smart enough to recognize it as race.
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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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This Spelling Test from 1974 Will Drive You Insane
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/t ... spartandhp
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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Bahahaha! "White skin"!
I'm 100% Anglo. but with my suntan, I'm blacker than 90% of the Khmer. ......White skin? Wanna see my ass?

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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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Barang chgout wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2017 7:58 am Bahahaha! "White skin"!
I'm 100% Anglo. but with my suntan, I'm blacker than 90% of the Khmer. ......White skin? Wanna see my ass?

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no.......
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Re: Teachers Wanted: No Negroes, Indians, Mongoloids Need Apply

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AndyKK wrote: Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:12 pm This Spelling Test from 1974 Will Drive You Insane
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/t ... spartandhp
Good test, in England, sizable is incorrectly spelled (it's got a red line under it here too).
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