PICTURE :
Why ?
Shipwreck of illegal immigrants in the Mediterranean
Why do they risk their lives in the sea? The dream of work, wealth, freedom, modernity, equality, rights, adventure, …? Or other ???
one has to look at their activities when they settle in Europe, to understand the answer.
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Haunting and heart-breaking.
1) First, people arriving in Canada are already filtered twice by the authority of their country of origin, and by the Canadian authority.
Illegal immigrants from the sea are not screened.
2) imagine a young person who is looking for a job in his country with 200 dollars / month; When he arrives in Canada he can work with 1500-2000 …. must we think humanely of him, or of the young people who have no solution to leave their country.?
I’ve observed over the last few decades the strong work ethic exceptionally practiced by new immigrants, and migrants, is demonstrably notable in the produce harvesting sector; it’s one of typically hump-busting work that almost all post second or third generation Canadians won’t tolerate for themselves.
Every time I observe them I feel a bit guilty, since, considering it from purely a human(e) level, I see not why they should have to toil so for minimal pay and not also I?
I can truly imagine such labourers being fifty to a hundred percent more productive than their born-and-reared-here Canadian counterparts.
To be clear, however, I’m not implying that a strong work ethic is a trait racially genetically inherited by one generation from a preceding generation, etcetera. It’s an admirable culturally determined factor, though also in large part motivated by the said culture’s internal and surrounding economic and political conditions.
I’ve also found that ‘Canadian values’ assimilation often means the unfortunate acquisition of a distasteful yet strong sense of entitlement.
Not to be misunderstood, I don’t favour importing very-low-wage labour from abroad while residents here remain unemployed, something I see as an unethical yet government-sanctioned business practise. Still, I too often hear similar complaints that are actually based on thinly veiled bigotry.
As for the temporary foreign workers, I believe that once they’ve resided here for a number of decades, their strong work ethics and higher-than-average productivity, unfortunately, gradually diminishes as these motivated labourers’ descendant generations’ young people become accustomed to the relatively slackened Western way of life.
One can already witness this effect in such youth getting caught up in much of our overall urban/suburban liberal culture—e.g. attire, lingo, nightlife, as well as work.
I’m not equating it to the slavery the above post is revealing/describing, but I’ve observed over the last few decades the very hard work that foreign temporary worker migrants perform here in Canada, notably in the produce harvesting sector.
It’s one of typically hump-busting work that almost all post second or third generation Canadians won’t tolerate for themselves.
Every time I observe them I feel a bit guilty, since, considering it from purely a human(e) level, I see not why they should have to toil so for minimal pay and not also I?
To be clear, however, I’m not implying that a strong work ethic is a trait racially/genetically inherited by one generation from a preceding generation, etcetera. It’s an admirable culturally determined factor, though also in large part motivated by the said culture’s internal and surrounding economic and political conditions.
(Frank Sterle Jr.)
Yes
for what purpose do they commit suicide? one has to look at their activities when they settle in Europe, to understand the answer.
Heartbreaking
So sad so many lost their lives trying to escape to a better part of the world.