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Old but revealing:

https://www.npr.org/2010/06/22/128011084/job-ad-in-china-white-man-no-experience-needed

There's opportunity in China even if you're a Westerner with no skills. If you're a white male and have a nice suit, you can get a job that pays well -- and requires no work.
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"Basically, a friend of a friend knew of a company that needed a bunch of white guys to go down and represent the company," Moxley told NPR's Robert Siegel. "I didn't know too much other than it was going to be $1,000 for a week and then we would be put in a hotel. And we'd have to attend a couple of banquets and tour a factory."

Moxley was acting as one of the quality control experts.

"I was told in advance we weren't going to be doing any quality control," he says. "Which is good because none of us actually had any experience in quality control."

Being "white" = quality in the minds of the psychologically colonized.

Moxley says his guess is that companies hire white people in suits to gain "a bit of credibility." He says that connections in China are important, especially in business.

Being "white" = credibility in the minds of the psychologically colonized.

"It was pretty funny. The whole thing was a little bit surreal," he says. "We were down there and were being paraded around a half-built factory and we had to sit in temporary offices the rest of the day, not really doing anything. ... We were sleeping at our desks or reading magazines."

But Moxley says he and the fake businessmen got the "red-carpet treatment" at the opening ceremony for the factory.

"They had police escorting vehicles to the ceremony," he says. "We were sitting at the front row right before the stage. One guy was supposedly the company director, and he gave a speech in front of 100 or so people. At the end, he was taking pictures with the mayor and being interviewed on local TV."

Moxley says that although his experience was surreal, it's "surprisingly common."

"I've been here for three years, and it was something I heard about soon after I got here. Off the top of my head, I know about six people who have done similar things."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/308119/

I became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig for underworked expatriates here. One friend, an American who works in film, was paid to represent a Canadian company and give a speech espousing a low-carbon future. Another was flown to Shanghai to act as a seasonal-gifts buyer. Recruiting fake businessmen is one way to create the image—particularly, the image of connection—that Chinese companies crave. My Chinese-language tutor, at first aghast about how much we were getting paid, put it this way: “Having foreigners in nice suits gives the company face.”

Foreigners? Does anyone believe the same companies would hire "non-white" foreigners for this purpose? Why does everyone try so hard to avoid the conclusion that this is Eurocentrism, the whole Eurocentrism and nothing but Eurocentrism?

The mayor was there with other local dignitaries, and so were TV cameras and reporters. We stood in the front row wearing suits, safety vests, and hard hats. As we waited for the ceremony to begin, a foreman standing beside me barked at workers still visible on the construction site. They scurried behind the scaffolding.

“Are you the boss?” I asked him.

He looked at me quizzically. “You’re the boss.”

Still don't believe me?