Only a small percentage of South Africans speak English at home. However, I have never met someone who does not speak it, although there may be some in rural areas.
My Afrikaans (the majority or plurality language in much of Western South Africa) has become rusty since I left school because I hardly ever speak it anymore. My university is entirely in English, as it is the only language that everyone has in common.
He was never seen again. Yet no Finnish pilot openly refused to fly that type of captured aircraft.
Yes indeed. Those were desperate times. Out numbered and out gunned by the Soviets, the Finn's used weather, all white camouflaged, misdirection, superior knowledge of the local terrain, in addition to captured armaments' to wear down the Soviet advance. Those Finn's were a brave and sturdy lot.
@cheesemastersaid Immigrants get preferences in non skilled job applications because companies are so scared to be called racist.
20% of the population is immigrants so no company should have more than a 20% immigrant staff.
They don't work harder.
I'm around them every day.
Immigrants work harder and complain less. That's why they are preferred for jobs where they are told what to do by disrespectful white/Jewish/Asian managers.
Funny, my brother's Korean-American wife was driven out of her job at a prestigious law firm by her Japanese manager's disrespect. I guess he must have been an exception.
Maybe it was one of the MANY businesses owned by Asians who hire Asian managers and Mexican workers (e.g. Asian restaurants in CA)
CHICAGO — On a cool Monday evening in August, a few minutes after the 10 p.m. closing of Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, a group of men is settling in for the night. Some are from Guatemala, others are Mexican, and one is a U.S. citizen. They crack jokes, drink beer and relax — some sprawled on bare mattresses, others lounging on dilapidated furniture amid an assortment of shopping carts.
Bright lights from the nearby baseball field flood a corner of the dimly lit camp, revealing discarded bottles and cardboard. The Chicago River is a few yards away, and downtown skyscrapers glitter in the distance.
Hidden by trees, behind railroad tracks, and next to a wall of concrete, the men live “debajo del puente” or “under the bridge.” Drivers and pedestrians on the busy 18th Street above are likely unaware of the men who live and sleep below them, or that many of them are the same people who chop vegetables, clean floors and refill buffets at Asian restaurants across the Midwest.
Jose Luis Ruiz, a 39-year-old from Michoacan, Mexico, is lying on the mattress where he will spend the night, playing on his phone. He found his first job because of a newspaper ad looking for dishwashers. It included a place to live.
He said he works at Chinese restaurants all over the Midwest, putting in 12- or 13-hour days, making $2,000 a month. Each time he gets a job, he pays an employment agency a fee. Ruiz, and another man who asked not to be named, said they were paid less than minimum wage and no overtime while working at a Chinese restaurant near the Wisconsin-Illinois border.
The "Tortilla ceiling" is so low that most Latin American mestizos have a hard time appreciating the "Bamboo ceiling". The statistics are skewed because there are many rich whites in the "Hispanic" population.
26 Dec '20 21:47
"Thousands apply to be a Finn for 90 days in migration scheme"
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