Monday, January 12, 2004
Friction with foreigners
Slowly but surely, the momentum is gaining in US against outsouricng as well as foreigners on work permits. Of course this is hugely because this is an election yr! Lou Dobbs, in his program Lou Dobbs Tonite on CNN, is running a virtual crusade against both outsourcing as well as allowing "aliens" on work permit. Of course, his main attack is against "illegal aliens".
Of course there are lot of arguments that favor outsourcing as well as allowing foreigners to work legally. But in the midst of growing job losses and an almost stagnant economy, itz a tuff job convincing ppl. And I guess to a great extent, the concerns of Americans on the matter of job losses r valid......I guess as part of globablization the poorer countries will grow at some cost to the richer countries. This may not be a politically correct statement to make, and u will never find some one making this statement!
But what set me thinkng was this news report in IndianExpress. It mentions abt the locals in Goa fighting against some foreigners who have established restaurants there. With foreign influence on the Indian job market and economy still negligible if this is the kind of tolerance we have, what right do we have to question Americans?
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest the divinity within, by controlling the nature - external and internal. Be it through work, worship, psychic control or knowledge, one or more or all of these.
-Swami Vivekananda
Slowly but surely, the momentum is gaining in US against outsouricng as well as foreigners on work permits. Of course this is hugely because this is an election yr! Lou Dobbs, in his program Lou Dobbs Tonite on CNN, is running a virtual crusade against both outsourcing as well as allowing "aliens" on work permit. Of course, his main attack is against "illegal aliens".
Of course there are lot of arguments that favor outsourcing as well as allowing foreigners to work legally. But in the midst of growing job losses and an almost stagnant economy, itz a tuff job convincing ppl. And I guess to a great extent, the concerns of Americans on the matter of job losses r valid......I guess as part of globablization the poorer countries will grow at some cost to the richer countries. This may not be a politically correct statement to make, and u will never find some one making this statement!
But what set me thinkng was this news report in IndianExpress. It mentions abt the locals in Goa fighting against some foreigners who have established restaurants there. With foreign influence on the Indian job market and economy still negligible if this is the kind of tolerance we have, what right do we have to question Americans?
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest the divinity within, by controlling the nature - external and internal. Be it through work, worship, psychic control or knowledge, one or more or all of these.
-Swami Vivekananda
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