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Q: Mustache in China?
I have a fully developed handlebar mustache and I am wondering if that is going to be an issue while applying for ESL jobs?
10 years 46 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
add a monocle and a walking stick
pin stripped suit and upper class English accent and you will be in like Flinn
Old Boy
Cheerio
you'll look like a movie villain and since chinese base their opinions of foreigners based on movies then they will run away from you
Ha alright I guess the cane twirling industrialist look should fit right in!
Just come with a pith helmet, shorts and wooly socks. You can pretend you're an explorer just back from a expedition through some deepest, darkest jungles. Chinese students love a great yarn. You'll go down like a house on fire!
Add a clown suit and you will be classified like the rest of us. Performers - native English speaking of course!
The Chinese probably think that men with mustaches are effeminate. Only girls have mustaches here! 
No, it wouldn't. They might have a problem with a dirty beard, but not a mustache. (
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Villain, English old boy, industrialist, true, true. But - and this may sound crazy - but I'm not making it up.
I had a faint mustache after a few days of careless shaving and two people - a Chinese friend and my Chinese girlfriend - at different times said I looked "Japanese" because of the mustache! Huh?
I was somewhat perplexed by their observations until I looked into it. Some theories:
Apparently, mustaches were all the rage in Japan at about the time the Japanese invaded China back in the 30s, so the Chinese associated (and still associate) a mustachioed male with a Japanese warrior.
Another theory I read was that American soldiers fighting in the Pacific Theatre during World War 2, couldn't differentiate one Asian nationality from another unless the enemy soldier sported a mustache and if that were the case, assumed the enemy was Japanese! Stereotype?
I've also read that Japanese males have more facial hair than Chinese males. Not sure how scientific that claim is.
Anyway, it seems mustaches are not in vogue in China unlike in the West.
Back to your question, OP. Your handlebar shouldn't be an issue in your job hunt. If anything, it'll be a novelty.
