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Cornel has made some excellent economic points about "foreign" workers in any
country or place of work. As many may know, about 30% of physicians in the USA
are foreign medical doctors. Here is a recent true account.
A crotchety old man with cancer was complaining about the doctor, saying to the
nurse, "Why do I have to see this foreign doctor."
The nurse recognizing this man's ethnic heritage replied, "That is because
Italian-Americans are not smart and hard-working enough."
The old man said, "Do not talk like that, because I am Italian-American."
The nurse responded, "Yes I know, and so am I. Just shut-up and thank God we
have this doctor to take care of you."
That is what I call an employee with true loyalty to her employer and a
broad-minded intelligent person. Their is no casteism here :=)), other than the
not uncommon knuckle-head thinking by the crotchety old man.
Kind Regards, GL
------------------ CORNEL DACOSTA wrote:
The problem in most economically buoyant places is that a vacuum is created by
the lack of local labour. Government and private industry fills the vacuum with
foreign labour to the chagrin of local people who wouldn't do the work in the
first place. Foreign labour keeps wages down in the interests of Government and
private enterprise. In turn, the low-quality media, plays on this issue by
saying how bad things are in order to sell papers to the conservative wing.
Currently, in the UK, the issue is prominent as an election is in the offing. I
have heard the same old stuff about immigration for 45 years! However, there is
also info about the substantial economic contribution made by many (but not
all) immigrant groups.
------------------ Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote:
Last evening, while on the Net, by some chance I ran into these articles about
"outsiders" (Portuguese settlers in this case) in Norfolk, and how things had
changed in that area. Today, while tuned into the BBC with some radio-features
playing in the background, I heard about the changes taking place in Alberta,
due to in-migration, and the many changes wrecked on that place.
