it's reported today that refugees in Wales are better educated than the 
local Welsh communities in which they live    ....   but they still find it 
more difficult to find work    ...  how the fuk do we contrive statistics as 
these      ...    sounds to me we are keeping some silly buggas in a job 
somewhere, compiling this lot!!

omega

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          "Omega"  wrote:

> it's reported today that refugees in Wales are better educated than the
> local Welsh communities in which they live    ....   but they still find it
> more difficult to find work    ...  how the fuk do we contrive statistics as
> these      ...    sounds to me we are keeping some silly buggas in a job
> somewhere, compiling this lot!!

Oh, it's probably true. A lot of refugees do indeed hold paper 
qualifications at quite a high level, probably higher than the farmers 
with whom they are surrounded. However there are various reasons why 
they find it hard to obtain work.

1. They speak little or no English (or, of course, Welsh) and if they 
do speak English, it is with a terrible accent, which has to be a 
disadvantage if you are a doctor or a teacher.

2. Their cultural background makes it hard to employ them. For 
example, many men from other cultures find it hard to work with women 
and impossible to work *under* a woman, so a job with a woman boss is 
just not on the cards. There have been cases in the local hospital 
where eastern doctors have treated female nurses and colleagues like 
dirt, though no one speaks about such things. The same applies to a 
woman who wants to wear a bag on her head at work or a man who won't 
wear a safety helmet over his turban.

3. There is prejudice. That is a pity, because at their best, many of 
these refugees make excellent employees - intelligent, dedicated, 
hard-working, loyal. And, of course, highly qualified.

Ken Down

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