I fear the topic has been led astray.
-todd
On 10/23/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tracy R Reed wrote:
> > Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> >> Brian wrote:
> >>> If the best job one can accept is "crap", isn't that motivation to
> >>> improve one's skills and/or job options?
> >>
> >> Spoken like someone who never had a relative work in the mills or the
> >> mines.
> >
> > How do you think my relatives got out of the mills/mines?
>
> Clarify, please.
>
> My grandfathers, *themselves*, didn't get out of the mills or the mines.
> But they made sure that the *next* generation didn't have to work there.
>
> My grandparents accepted that *hazardous* job for the benefit of the
> next generation, not themselves. Even had my grandfathers improved
> their skills, it is unlikely they could have broken out of their
> situation without extraordinary luck.
>
> In addition, my paternal grandfather emigrated from Hungary. The really
> rotten jobs in the mill *were* a step up. That's how bad Hungary was ...
>
> If you ever get a chance to visit a museum about one of the big steel
> towns, I recommend that you go. It's especially rather eye-opening for
> a lot of people to hear the current insults about the Mexican-American
> community being hurled at their own ancestors alomst 100 years ago
> ("They don't assimilate." "They send all the money back to another
> country." "They take all the good jobs." etc.).
>
> http://www.jaha.org/DiscoveryCenter/virtualtour.html
>
> -a
>
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