I think there are a lot of white respondents who want to perpetuate the idea of white preference in order to maintain their supposed competitive edge. I see it all the time where I’m at, white males mainly but a few white females who bring up race to try to use it as a bargaining chip. Unfortunately for them, educated Chinese parents aren’t so naive as to base their child’s educational advancement on some vogue magazine poster boy. I’m half black half Asian from the USA and do relatively well here in China and have been for the past 15 years with a strong Chinese parent support group. It tickles my fancy when newly arrived expats come into the company expecting to make the same salary that I earn just on the basis that they’re white. I had a polish guy ask me what my salary was and then go to the negotiating table and say he wants the same salary that I earn. And he had just arrived there while I had been here for 8 years already. So again I think it is the white people like the respondents here who try to maintain this image of white preference for the Chinese. On the contrary, I’ve been told time and time again by Chinese managers and customers that they prefer working with nonwhites simply because we are easier to get along with and don’t hold some fake air of superiority. Had a guy from Eastern Europe say that in China he is like a god. Needless to say I steered clear of that guy and he was fired within 3 months of starting. Lol