"Being a teacher does not come in shapes and sizes - does not define race and color. Being a teacher do serve as a guide and sage." There are prejudices going around that schools ONLY and PREFER native speakers and there you go listing the names of countries they are accepting. It is a bitter fact that Philippines is not included despite an English speaking country. I can not blame them for that having hundreds of dialects spoken in the country some have carried over the local tone. But does it really matter? What if some are bilingual and multilingual? I bet they are more flexible and talented as they can switch one language to the other. Taking myself, for instance, I am more fluent in speaking English better than Filipino in fact because my mother tongue is Ilocano, a dialect widely spoken in the northern area of the country. I also can (so when we say "can" it means "ability" so should clarify it) understand my parents' dialects which are ...