Good morning 600. I was strolling around the forum this morning and ran across this post. It is a response to an incident where one member made some comments about Mexican workers and how it's affecting economy, etc. Well someone else took offense, threatened to leave the forum all together, other people got involved and then this, and, in my opinion anyway, it was so well said, even though it was made back in 2007, that I wanted to revive it. Well said words should never die.
Originally posted by VictorVicious
I have a question. If you were just on the other side of that river and you knew you could find work and feed your family on the other side of that river what would you do?
This argument goes on all around the world folks. The same sterotypes are used and only the name of the group changes. My wife and I have hosted High School Foriegn exchange students and supervised for other host family from all over the world. My wife's favorite all time student explained to here what was bad about East Germans and those Southern Germans and the gooddam lazy turkish immigrants. He doesn't agree with the views of his peers.
The boy we had from Azerberjan a former Soviet state, said he went to school one day and was told he must now hate the Armenians. His best friend and next door neighbor is Armeninian.
Our Turkish boy explained why they hate the lazy Greeks. Our Brazilian boy explained why the people in the flavella's are just lazy and dumb. Thomas lives in a "Gated Community". I don't remember for sure but I think they have a husband and wife team for gardening and housekeeping. They have been with them for like 20 years and still get thier possesions searched at the gate every day.
People are people where ever you go. Do not form your opinions based on a limited knowledge of the people.
One thing to keep in mind when US citizens complain about what any group is taking from us, like we should have an exclusive right to it. We have 5% of the world's population and we consume 75% of the world's goods. Seems a little out of balance. Do you really wonder why folks would break the law to come here?
It's no different here either. Every year our fields are full of migrant workers, but try to get the young guys these days to go pick tobacco or harvest ginseng, not a chance in hell no matter how much you pay them and then if they do, they can't cut it. The young Mexican Mennonites and Amish men, who are born and raised here many, many years now, now that's a different story, these guys still work with horse drawn plows even!
OK gonna do some tending and will be back with a couple of pics later.
Cheers Duchie