Derby, I ran a department meeting where we wanted to honor a new US citizen. I asked anyone who's parents were immigrants to stand, then asked for anyone who's grandparents were immigrants to stand. With virtually the whole room standing, I announced our newest immigrant, a Filipino friend. We gave him a standing ovation. He didn't want to be acknowledged, but I wanted him to know he was not alone.
Tim Bray, That's a visionary story of brutal hardship overcome. And Maritim Tim, Good to see you doing good things with your feet on dry land! Regards, Bob S. (The grandson of proud Polish immigrants) On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Derby Chang <der...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > On 15/10/2012 6:49 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote: >> >> I finished rereading The Emigrants about half a year ago. >> It was rough times indeed. Back home, many where landless and starved. >> Others left of religios reasons. >> >> Now it's the other way around, people come to norway for safety or to >> make a better living. >> >> My new job is about setling some young familyless refugees from >> Afghanistan in our community. >> >> -- >> MaritimTim >> >> My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ >> My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/ >> > > > > !!!! I know this is really OT for pdml, but I would really love to read more > about your new job. I'm from an immigrant family myself. I am a rusted on > Labor voter because of former prime minister, Gough Whitlam who relaxed the > rules for letting us have stake a new life in Australia. I cannot understand > how we allow capital to flow freely cross borders but we put up barriers to > human capital, which is much more infinite in potential (it does make me > question the current Labor party on this one issue). > > How do your clients adapt going from Afghanistan to Norway? What a huge > change it must be. Where do they go, and who helps them settle in? Is there > much debate within Norway on how this is handled? > > > D > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
