You're just right.

My barber is Iranian, and the pizza delivery guy yesterday was Turkish. All is well. 👍

@transience Become english teacher

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dont they just want whities though

@red can you confirm?

would waving my british passport work at all or do i need the look too?

no personal experience, but it's what i hear.

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im probably gonna try push for the sponsorship route through western pigdog company

if that doesnt work, that's another option

i mean, waving your british passport around won't hurt.

places are increasingly looking for qualifications to teach, though

and aren't they all into american english nowadays

it's not the sort of wild west like it was before where you could just hop in and start teaching, though there are definitely still places like that.

only hong kong seems to like britbong english

so maybe theyd discriminate based on that

@transience they want native speakers

all i saw around taipei was "mei yu" (i dont have pinyin input on thinkpad) instead of "ying wen"

not sure about british english. i figure as long as you're native you'd be fine

nah, that's just a certain way of saying english that sounds fancier

i guess so

mei yu = beautiful language

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i can increasingly into posh southern english nowadays too, now that ive lived in the south for a year

@red how do they perceive bbc english over there?

aka queen's english or stereotypical britbong accent

you're harry potter

some girl in raohe night market figured out i was brit

either by my bank card or my accent

i was speaking to her in 80% mandarin

depends on the person, some people can't tell

with odd english word

other people can

sounds fancy.

actually interested in this myself, never really considered it

i'll ask around.

Are there any English news/politics blogs that aren't afraid to tell it how it is in China?

I hear people in hk fake a British accent to seem cool

The only blog I know like that is the HRIC (Human Rights In China?) daily brief. http://hric-newsbrief.blogspot.com/?m=1

@plasticsword I've heard some HK guy in uni speak a pretty convincing britbong accent