After the today's lecture 2/9/10 I felt the strong urge to write a blog post about job opportunity (with immigrants and non immigrants). I have a very strong opinion about it after having a personal experience involving job opportunities. It is not the employees of minorities that I am frustrated with/ I am frustrated with the CEO's and the managers of companies that bothers me.
What frustrates me the most is that many well educated people are losing their jobs to those who did not take the time to learn everything there is to learn about a specific field of work. Our society is moved by the need to have the next big thing, whether it be cars, purses, or a vacation home. Perhaps it isn't our government that controls or has the deciding factor over the economy, perhaps its the people who live such lavish lifestyles demand that our economy change and adapt to them.
My personal life story was that my father attended UW-Madison earning his electrical/software engineering degree. He worked his way through college (no help from his parents) and has made a name for himself. My sophomore year of high school he told me the company he worked for; Best Power was closing and relocating to Raleigh, North Carolina . My dad however could keep his job if he choose to relocate his family to Raleigh and re-interviewed for his position (my dad thought it was ridiculous to re-apply for a job he already had). He refused to locate resulting in losing his job. Later on my dad was required to train the worker who was taking over my dad's position, via telephone. The man was native born man from China, who was the only one willing to take the job (what was funny was they were paying more for this man then my dad since the new worker had his PhD). Aside from the fact my dad couldn't pronounce the worker's name and vice versa, my dad said the new worker had no idea what was going on when he started to talk about the company's product. The new worker was frustrated that he did not have all the materials required to learn the product to its full extent, it would have been smarter to have just had my dad keep the original job.
I'm not upset that other people in the world have basic needs like the rest of us. What upsets me is that people are willing to look past race and ethnicity when it comes to gaining more money. However when it means that people of different cultures and ethnicities (for example: people of African descent) become more successful, those who are viewed as White in our society claim that the people of “new found money” got to where they are because of Affirmative Action, and not solely on the fact that they worked hard to climb up the ladder. I feel like for the rest of time, people will be fake happy for others as long as it means, them themselves are still on top.
Finally, I feel like some people that go to school at Madison really do not understand what it is like to hear one or both of their parent's have lost their jobs. If you walk around campus you can see how people of different cultures, races, sororities, fraternities, and student organizations look down on the other because they may have or not have the same thing as the other. To me it almost seems like a superficial world to see how one group can up the other, but yet I think that a lot of the time it is the parents who set and example for their children to follow. I mean idealistically does a college student need a BMW at a college campus? No, but it is the life that they have always know and that is something that will never change.
Like my mom says, “For some people this recession doesn't even phase them.” To me this is absurd, how can not every family be affected? This is how not every family can be affected, by not having their jobs be eliminated, by saving more and more money with every layoff that they create. It's called Capitalism and it is going to stay here as long as we have money controlling people's lives. I just wonder what our world would be like if we were able to start over, a clean slate, and give everyone a new chance to start over. I wonder who really would be on top and how some would deal with a new way of life.
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