Paddler Ed
Well-Known Member
Based on my time here in Australia, and talking with other people who are not Australian born, people have a problem with foreigners who aren't the same as them...
Talking with someone who is Canadian (but now Australian) they were saying someone was having a rant at them about migration, and all the foreigners coming into the country... they did point out that this conversation included them...
Like Steve, I have someone in their 90's who complained in the past about migration into the UK, with the added irony that she was German...
Often we see the migration of those who are different to us as the problem; those who are the same as us are not the problem (to the same extent).
Picking up on someone's comment re young people - I think that there are people who still want to enter industries and trades, but the sharp knife was run through the training schemes by the elected governments back in the 1980s and 1990s... if not before... Now, it's cheaper to import a tradesman from Poland/Hungary/Romania who has been taught properly to do the job, rather than someone pushed through a college course part time by a company who wants them to be earning a full wage ASAP, instead of being a properly apprenticed tradesman.
Talking with someone who is Canadian (but now Australian) they were saying someone was having a rant at them about migration, and all the foreigners coming into the country... they did point out that this conversation included them...
Like Steve, I have someone in their 90's who complained in the past about migration into the UK, with the added irony that she was German...
Often we see the migration of those who are different to us as the problem; those who are the same as us are not the problem (to the same extent).
Picking up on someone's comment re young people - I think that there are people who still want to enter industries and trades, but the sharp knife was run through the training schemes by the elected governments back in the 1980s and 1990s... if not before... Now, it's cheaper to import a tradesman from Poland/Hungary/Romania who has been taught properly to do the job, rather than someone pushed through a college course part time by a company who wants them to be earning a full wage ASAP, instead of being a properly apprenticed tradesman.