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sista_mai

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Hi all, might be an interest for some of you... it's a young artist who made a nice video about the situation in America (Canada and the US),

Hope you will appreciate... or not :-)
Also take a look at the people's comments below the video... that should help you preparing yourself mentally for things you might encounter while living abroad... especially if you are black and MUSLIM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Th04ZQCt5A&feature=feedrec_grec_index
 
wow, very powerful indeed.....thanks for this links sister mai.
It's always good to hear different perspectives on this immigration issue.
 
sista_mai said:
Hi all, might be an interest for some of you... it's a young artist who made a nice video about the situation in America (Canada and the US),

Hope you will appreciate... or not :-)
Also take a look at the people's comments below the video... that should help you preparing yourself mentally for things you might encounter while living abroad... especially if you are black and MUSLIM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Th04ZQCt5A&feature=feedrec_grec_index
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Moderator,

please delete this link, the guy is preaching.
 
Whinining, victim mentality,blame games. Just the way it is everywhere in the world. We are our own worst enemies.
 
Everybody has a point of view and a different experience, this is why Im sharing this link,
I have been living in Canada and the US for 10 years and I have seen many and many families coming from overseas, people with diploma and degrees, doctors, attorneys and such... working as cab driver if they are lucky. Im not saying this is gonna happen to you, indeed, it didnt happen to me, I had the chance to study in Canada so it was easier for me to find a decent job in Canada then the US... But keep in mind that when you are coming straight from overseas, things might be very different,

Some people think it's the El Dorado back in America, but it's not always the case...

Again Im just sharing this so people could PREPARE themselves financially and psychologically before the final landing.
Especially if you have a family going with you... Im not trying to stop people going there, myself Im going back so who am I to stop people.
 
sista_mai said:
Everybody has a point of view and a different experience, this is why Im sharing this link,
I have been living in Canada and the US for 10 years and I have seen many and many families coming from overseas, people with diploma and degrees, doctors, attorneys and such... working as cab driver if they are lucky. Im not saying this is gonna happen to you, indeed, it didnt happen to me, I had the chance to study in Canada so it was easier for me to find a decent job in Canada then the US... But keep in mind that when you are coming straight from overseas, things might be very different,

Some people think it's the El Dorado back in America, but it's not always the case...

Again Im just sharing this so people could PREPARE themselves financially and psychologically before the final landing.
Especially if you have a family going with you... Im not trying to stop people going there, myself Im going back so who am I to stop people.
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Well thanks for sharing the link. Most immigrants have this rosy picture of America in their mind. Yeah its lovely and great here, but immigrants gotta work hard to fit in, and this country does not accept most degrees from overseas, that means that most immigrants that want to make it here will have to go back to college and acquire American education, even doctors, nurses and pharmacist from overseas will have to be retrained. Just something for people coming here to keep in mind
 
kck said:
Well thanks for sharing the link. Most immigrants have this rosy picture of America in their mind. Yeah its lovely and great here, but immigrants gotta work hard to fit in, and this country does not accept most degrees from overseas, that means that most immigrants that want to make it here will have to go back to college and acquire American education, even doctors, nurses and pharmacist from overseas will have to be retrained. Just something for people coming here to keep in mind
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problem america is facing is very simple ..no fresh ideas and directions ..stallmate .
+status quo + inept & corrupted politicans ...
this is not the society who can take that on the long run..every day in the crisis is one day too much for this country ...its simply not designed to endure that something like that ..its not canada and simply its not europe by the long shoot ...
 
It depends. We cannot say everyone are working as taxi drivers etc. I knew few people who are immigrants, got settled in good job. It depends upon your hard work.
 
yes some people d have good jobs ..BUT NOT YOU
some people do have nice cars and big houses but NOT YOU
yes ..some people do have money to burn .. BUT NOT YOU ..


CUT and PASTE please!

• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.
• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income
 
PRAHA said:
yes some people d have good jobs ..BUT NOT YOU
some people do have nice cars and big houses but NOT YOU
yes ..some people do have money to burn .. BUT NOT YOU ..
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Don't you get tired of sitting all day posting crap about the U.S...
 
What makes you think PRAHA is in the United States?
If you ask me He sounds like someone who doesn't live in the US and or got denied entry into this country.

Best of luck to him.
 
all your guesses are wrong my ''friends ''. ....I' m US citizen for almost 4 years now ...and i don't write crap about US ..US IS CREATING CRAP BY ITSELF these days ..and A LOT OF IT ..I just merely state the facts ......at the moment I'M CLOSING MY BUSINESS here so in autum I will be back home in my country after 9 years ...and no I did not go bankrupt !..peace out
 
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