indushek
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Being fluent in English means that you are not local or that you have lived abroad. That alone makes them think and see you differently.
I have also experienced many times during my visits to China that people look at me differently and treats me better than their local counterparts. Hence I said they will view you on a different league. They only act this way because they believe and consider the west to be more desirable and superior. So by demonstrating that you have the ability to communicate in English fluenty means that you have been abroad and that alone commands a higher status to their eyes.
In places like Shanghai, you will not get on the good side if you are not local.
They will view you as being in the lower class category. However, if you are a westerner or a Chinese who communicates in perfect English, they see you differently and treats you with more respect.
Ah this phenomenon has existed and does exist still in India too!!!!!!!
However the recession has changed lot of things lol. Previously only those guys working overseas were considered to be worthy of giving one's daughter in marriage. NRI's are treated on a separate level because they are foreign returned!!!!
Once the recession kicked in and the talk of attacks on Indians in foreign countries etc came in now people give the last preference to foreign matches.
The admiration for people living overseas hasn't died down but not so important anymore as it was at the time of tech boom.