Bill Maher’s show “VICE”,  which is an excellent documentary series, just ran a segment called “Hire A White Guy”.  It’s about the propensity of Chinese corporations to hire white folks to dress up their corporate headquarters as ushers, greeters, even masquerading as Western doctors. They interviewed one fellow who said he regularly gets five or six job offers a DAY. Plus if you stick to Shanghai,  the city is so vast you can impersonate Western doctors all over the place and never get caught.  We all look alike to them, remember.

This sounds like a job even I could do, but the word “women” wasn’t uttered even once during the show.  So I asked my Shanghai-born friend if there was a market for women. He didn’t think so.  Even so,  I wonder if some of the single men languishing in the homeless camps  couldn’t be employed for the price of a new suit and a plane ticket. Food for thought, anyway.

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