China's 'Rent-a-Foreigner' industry is booming

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From: Business Insider

 

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Foreigners are being hired to pose as celebrities by Chinese real-estate developers to help agents sell property in "ghost towns" by making them appear more animated and worldly, according to a new mini-documentary released by The New York Times.

 

Thanks to China's overzealous property development, the supply of luxury apartment complexes in some of China's most rural areas has far exceeded demand. But that doesn't stop the sales pitches.

 

The client can pick and choose whom they want to pose at their event, down to the foreigners' nationalities and skin colors.

 

"Now, it is true that the price of white people is expensive," the same agent told Borenstein. "But it makes the place feel classier."

 

If a client can't afford a white foreigner, he or she is advised to choose black actors instead who have "a very open personality, yet are quite cheap."

 

MORE...

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-rent-a-foreigner-industry-is-booming-2015-4

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/opinion/rent-a-foreigner-in-china.html

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IuJqEwS-pw

 

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