Taiwanese AMERICAN being ESL teacher?

You are absolutely correct.

I have a Bachelors from an Ivy League school and a Masters from a very reputable university and I'm Taiwanese. I speak English fluently without any accent whatsoever. I have found it difficult to be hired as an English teacher in Taiwan. Even if I were to be offered a job, my hourly wage is still lower than that of a Caucasian (who barely graduated college!). My friend who's Caucasian and is an English teacher told me he doesn't know the difference between their, they're, and there - and he's a teacher! He will always be paid more than me.

Unfortunately Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China etc are all places where being Caucasian or "foreign" means more than credentials. It's insulting but it's a fact.

I applied for a job at HESS and they emailed and said I wasn't eligible to teach with them because English wasn't my native language. My employer wrote them and told them that my English is indistinguishable from a native speaker's. I emailed to ask WTF. Then they told me it wouldn't work anyway because I have a Taiwanese passport. I asked them what passport would they prefer and they listed a throng of them. I told them "perfect! I have a (country) passport!" They granted me a phone interview and when they asked to speak to me, I said they were and they told me that this was a lie and that I must have paid a fluent English speaking friend to speak on the phone because they refused to believe I was, in fact, me. They hung up. I emailed to say that it was me and that I found this whole thing a bit...ridiculous, and they told me they weren't hiring...period.

Not only was that insulting but a friend's friend (who's Caucasian and graduated with horrific college grades and with horrific grammar and spelling) ended up getting hired with HESS.

Pretty much, don't get your hopes up. There will be a few places that will hire you because of your fluency, but they are far and few. Personally I think it's advantageous to hire a non-native English speaker who speaks fluently and has foreign degrees because it makes us more relate-able. It's easier to teach when you know where you struggled learning English; it gives you insight on how to teach to make it understandable because you were in their position once.

I am a foreigner. I've been dwelling in Taiwan for one and a half of year and not planning to depart. I've been following cross-Straits disorders since 2000 kind of and keep getting into it. I dislike China for the straightforward incontrovertible fact that it continues claiming as its possess anything that, in genuine reality it can be no longer. Useless going into the traditional boring important points in terms of UN resolutions and so forth. However the point is that many foreigners and Taiwanese don't love China with no trouble on the grounds that China has been blockading Taiwan independence for a long time, hindering its membership at the UN (nothing too major considering also the Vatican shouldn't be a member) and blackmailing any nation that had diplomatic relationships with Taiwan. It is obvious no person can see China in a high-quality means. Same opinion about China applies in Europe, the place mainland chinese are renowned for vanity, trickiness and some different adjectives (That involves their emigrates dwelling in Europe). To reply to your question i am of those who doesn't just like the technique China is applying to Taiwan. I would not have any Stocholm syndrome when you consider that nobody forces me to stay here and i'm not going back at any place for the reason that i'm developing a company here. I will allow you to bet why i didn't want to set it up on mainland. I do not even have unexplainable emotions nor i am swept away with the aid of a wave of feelings with butterflies in my belly, nor i am taken by means of dreamy idealisms. The factor is particularly easy. What China is doing to Taiwan is it seems that improper. Might be that explains why so many humans dislike China even more than they did before (since in simple honesty i observed many who reckon China as a superpower, but only a few loving it)

In Taiwan you can find work without a degree but it's becoming increasing difficult. Almost any BA degree (plus a TEFL certificate) will be fine. As to whether you will find work if you do not look like a typical "Westerner" this is another matter. Many schools prefer white, blue eyed teachers and this makes it harder for others to find work no matter how well qualified!

The only way to answer your questions is to start applying for work and seeing how it goes. You may well find a non-racist school ready to hire you.

Good luck!

YOU NEED AN EDUCATION, HERES WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Another-zombie-at...

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-07/calt...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/11...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=f...

http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-...

http://zombiehunters.org/forum/

http://www.inquisitr.com/249147/new-bath-salt-zomb...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lurch

http://www.ranker.com/list/the-15-craziest-canniba...

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/archive/index.php/t...

You are correct in all your presumptions.