In response to (Message Deleted by Poster) (Fatma Karaaslan)

I couldn't agree more. As an agent that tries to look beyond the nationality of a person, I am sometimes (quite often actucally) appalled at the blatant racial and colour prejudice that occurs in Thailand.

Just this morning I have had the mispleasure of taking a teacher to a achool that is crying out for a qualified teacher. The teacher I took is an old friend of mine, he is English, but from Arabic parents. The school refused to even try him on a temporary contract for fear of upsetting the parents.

This behaviour has no place in a civilised world, but who said the world is civilised?

The best ESL/EFL teacher I have ever known was a Yugoslav. Who taught the TEFL certificate course I took 14 years ago in England.

Unfortunately until education stops being a business, and teachers a commodity to be sold, this attitude of favouring an accident of birth will persist.