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Stephen Colbert provides his take on Chinese companies renting white guys as fake businessmen, while conceding that he has lost the rights to his The Colbert Report to the Chinese two years ago due to a sub-prime investment loss. Apparently, these fake businessmen jobs are also known in China as “white guy in tie events” or “face jobs.”
Of course, this practice in China definitely makes you ask the questionable ethics behind renting fake white businessmen to raise a company’s stature and legitimacy. But what about the people who accept such jobs? Are they not complicit in perpetuating this fraud? This practice reminds me of a 60 Minutes story a mini-Madoff fraudster in the U.S. perpetuating a fake business meeting in another company’s office.
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It actually does constitute fraud, and you could get deported because of it. However, it is will the company that hires that get into the serious trouble, since they are the one that's doing the fraud.
In a few years, it will go the way of American diplomas. about 5 years ago you can pass off any American diplomas as from a prestigious university (university of pheonix, western pacific etc). Now outside of well know schools like Harvard, MIT, Yale, Berkeley etc, all American diplomas get been doubted until proven otherwise. Which in the end harms people graduate from good school that's not well know internationally, such as Harvey Mudd or Ohio state.
Perhaps, all these fake white people will make future investor and consultant's job hard if they are not from major international corporations, since they will be presumed to be fakes until proven otherwise. In the longterm, this is bad for America
@jozjozjoz - Do you know every Asian American actor and actress ??? For my reference and the blog's -
It's funny but sort of sad at the same time. I don't know the legality of it, but sooner or later, people aren't going to just accept another "white face" without some credentials. Although if they kiss ass enough they might get a position, like every job in the world.
More and more people with actual skills and other credentials (including Asians) are coming into China. The Chinese will have to deal with them and sort out which are fakes and which have substance. Eventually there's going to be some conflict because of that.
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