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Q: May I please know why china don't consider Ghana as a native English speaking country? ??

5 years 41 weeks ago in  General  - China

 
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Because a lot of Chinese parents only want a white face teaching their children, plus they believe only the golden five countries can speak English. Is it racist, of course it is. The schools pander to the parents expectations with no thought to educating them, after all why would a school educate anyone when they can get the money for not doing it. 

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* ...why China doesn't......

 

No idea, you'd have to ask the Chinese government.

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Because China probably don't have a trade foot hold in the country. ....yet
There is another reason but I won't be tacky and give it more oxygen than that.

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Because a lot of Chinese parents only want a white face teaching their children, plus they believe only the golden five countries can speak English. Is it racist, of course it is. The schools pander to the parents expectations with no thought to educating them, after all why would a school educate anyone when they can get the money for not doing it. 

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I think, you would be better off if you'd write grievance letter to Xi Jinpong ...  On this Board, we only have SAFEA's web link.

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My ol' man worked in Ghana when I was a kid.  Never forgot the native-made knife he brought me back.

 

*oil & gas biz

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Knife? What about Gemstones?

 

You should thoroughly check the bags, again. 

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haha,,, think the gems went to my mom.....  rightly so....

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Because of the accent there.

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The accent is not so good. They pronounce "er" like "a" Kind of like Gangsta instead of gangster but its used for all words. That's fine though. the main thing is the accent is something people don't want for their kids. And well they think white people know best...which is...well...not 100% true.

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Most of the Ghanain people that I worked with had a little bit of a pronounciation problem. There was one time that a Chinese teacher corrected one of the teachers in class and as a man the Ghanain teacher felt that the Chinese teacher was trying to make him lose face in front of the students. I had the terrible job of pointing out that the Chinese teacher was correct in doing so. The Ghanain teacher then shifted his anger towards me so I simply asked him "how old are you?". His reply was "I'm dirty" I was trying to simply point out to him that he was acting very childish but then decided to ask him the same question another five times. If you have a problem saying th as in thank you, then and there, then you should not be teaching English because the higher grade students do pick it up and we don't want any of the primary school students learning from your mistakes. We are there to fix the mistakes and not teach them incorrectly. The original fight was about the word ballet and how it was pronounced.

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Because most Chinese parents think only people with white skin  are native speakers

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As a conservative society with plenty of introverted individuals, China struggled with opening up to other cultures, races and societies. There were strugglings with opening to the western culture, strugglings with opening to the white race. I guess what we need is a little patience with Chinese nature of character. Eventually they will start to open themselves to other cultures and races other than the western culture and white race. 

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This isn't about xenophobia, it's about the right of the host country to be selective about what working immigrants they allow in. It is China's sovereign right to make this decision, as it is for all countries. If place of origin is the only variable for English teaching ability I would rate Ghana below that of England or the USA.

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I feel like xenophobia is very strong word i was refering to the fear of the unknown and fear of losing the known, fear from losing the identity, fear from assimilation of the living customs and fear from overpower of western culture. Yes xenophobia litterally means fear of unknown, but it's very strong expression for me to refer to Chinese mentality. For me xenophobia is fear combined with hate, that is why i feel it more of a strong word. My comment on the question above was a kind of conclusion after i got the information that South Africa is out of the chinese list for native english countries, there is mixture of white and black teachers in South Africa, and that is why i thought that the skin color is the reason for excluding South Africa, and not including Ghana, or Philipinnes or whatever other country with English as official language.

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It's all about poor level of English among Chinese teachers and managers in China.

 

Once, they see your Native English passport, Chinese are convinced you can teach English with proper accent ... like there's only one English accent in the world.

 

You wouldn't behave any different, if you would open Chinese language school in the West while being familiar with only few Chinese phrases.

How could you find out what kind of Chinese your Non-native Chinese teacher is teaching? 

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True, that's why so many english speaking individuals want to enter the recruitment business.

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