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04-15-2010, 12:20 AM

People from third world countries who have similar qualifications and skills to "white" people will have a similar chance of getting jobs and will be paid the same. My husband works in IT in Tokyo and a lot of his co-workers are from India and Bangladesh. He (Japanese) is paid the same as they are. There was a huge influx of Indian IT workers in the last decade, so coming from a less developed country doesn't seem to be an issue for people with skills.

The main source of jobs for people without specific skills is English teaching, and it is obvious that most of the foreigners teaching English here are going to be white, because the majority of the population in most English-speaking countries is white.

Black, Asian, Hispanic and other ethnicities have about the same chance as anyone of getting a job teaching English these days if they were born in an English speaking country or speak English at a native level. I have a Pakistani friend who was teaching English here- now he works in international law for a Japanese company and is very highly paid.

So, as I said above, if you have the job skills, being from an undeveloped country is not really an obstacle. Native English speakers have it fairly easy for getting jobs here, but that's just how it is- English is the international language.

To comment on your second post here, while you might like asking questions, if you don't then come back and comment on the answers people give, they may think they are wasting their time and not bother to answer your questions in the future.
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