Thread: Discriminatory Job Adverts

I'm in favour of discrimination in advertising. Race, age, sex... whatever.

I would rather know in advance whether I am likely to be a serious candidate for a job rather than traipse over town and go through the charade of a fake interview just to appease the muddle minded liberals. It also tells me something about the organization that may determine whether or not I want to work for them.

By banning discrimination in advertising for jobs you create all sorts of frustrations both for employers and for job candidates.

Let me ask you this...

If you wanted your child to learn Chinese would you give the job to a black South African with a degree in Chinese language or a Chinese person who simply speaks and writes Chinese?

Banning discrimination in advertising doesn't make discrimination go away. It actually exacerbates the situation in a way where nobody wins.

Just one look at the ridiculous situation in the UK where job centers have to offer jobs to everyone despite many applicants being clearly unsuitable for the tasks.

Nope. I much prefer an open and honest system where people are up front about their preferences and opinions.

Yep. Pretty much agree with KruMark

I haven't much against it. As mentioned, if they don't want your product it's best to know straight away. What else can you do .. go on a crusade?

No Tom. I'm old. Tell me old isn't grounds for discrimination.

This sort of thing happens in Northeast Asia too. Workplace discrimination is common in China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan. Things will probably gradually change and people will get more open to having foreigners of different races working in their schools.

A lot can happen in 50 or so years look how much happened in the USA.

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I am not sure what fighting it can do. I think the only way things will change faster is if there is some incident of discrimination that gets in the national news or TV. Something like that happened in Korea to an Indian guy. Racism in Korea: Indian media interviews Bonojit Hussain (

...that's fine...until qualified folks (let's say native speakers) are discriminated against because employers don't like particular skin colors, religions, orientations, nose sizes, etc.

I disagree...

Surely in the Thailand teaching industry my skin colour is one of my qualifications.

Like it or not the students are more likely to learn from a white teacher. Teachers are more likely to respect a white teacher. Parents are more likely to pay for a white teacher.

Is it fair? No, of course it isn't. Would I like it if I was black? No.

Good luck if you want to fight a battle about equality and fairness, but don't ask me to sign any petition until the National Black Police Association in the UK accepts a white policeman as a member.

So you see... blatant racism is just as apparent, open and entrenched in the west as it is over here!

Within the first 15 seconds of meeting a Black person I'm thinking to myself: This person is Black. Then all that goes away. I doubt most Thais, Chinese, Koreans and whomever has that circuitry. IMO they don't have to accept Western 21st Century thinking. They're rude and crude. And if you're living there with them there must be an attraction. Remember, they were in the Steam Age 50 years ago.

And the stone age 50 years before that.