[cannondalejunky]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/china.rent.white.people/index.html?iref=obinsite

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."
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Last year, Jonathan Zatkin, an American actor who lives in Beijing, posed as the vice president of an Italian jewelry company that had, allegedly, been in a partnership with a Chinese jewelry chain for a decade.

 

[valve bouncer]

Welcome to Asia. I recently got paid $350 for about 2 hours work making a TV commercial. I was the "foreign client". Was actually a pretty cool experience.
Edit- I didn't even mention a couple of my mates that dress up as priests on the weekends and conduct wedding ceremonies at $100 a pop. We're selling a dream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DaveW]

So VB = whitey Rent boy??

Jap's are SICK man!

 

[valve bouncer]

So VB = whitey Rent boy??

Jap's are SICK man!

Any hole's a goal Davo. As if I'd need to tell a Kiwi that!

 

[valve bouncer]

Forgot, got a free packet of these too. Win!

 

[$tinkle]

you know times are tough when:
- they're finally getting around to exploiting whitey
- he's made to look gainfully employed

 

[DaveW]

you know times are tough when:
- they're finally getting around to exploiting whitey
- he's made to look gainfully employed

You know times are good when:
- even a minority migrant can earn a crust
- can look respectable and worthy of money in an advanced eastern culture

 

[skatetokil]

Umm, is it actually realistic to expect that one could make money by just showing up in China and being a white guy with a gray suit? If so, where do I sign up?