Readit News_qfhw commented on Norwegian developer job board for Ukrainian refugees kode24.no/tech-jobs-norwa... · Posted by u/retrojorgen
There's already a number of comments trying to spin this in one racially loaded way or another discrimination loaded way or such. Please stop. I'll try to explain why your take is misguided with a parable which you can no doubt poke countless holes into.
Say you've lived in one place your whole life. You have a neighbour, and they've lived their whole life there as well. One day your neighbour comes to you and asks for a hundred bucks because they've fallen on hard times. Now compare this to a stranger on the street asking you for a hundred because they say they've fallen on hard times.
People go up and above for Ukraine because they're that neighbour. Many have friends, family and/or relatives there. Many have travelled there. This is not about race, or religion, or any kind of hate. We're helping our neighbour.
Respectfully; this forum encourages discussion. It is not good enough to say Ukrainians are neighbours and would integrate better than refugees from other countries.
At the expense of devolving into whataboutism, Eastern and Western Europe do have their genuine cultural differences. Will the western world still be as accommodating of Eastern European refugees in ten or twenty years?
Let us not speak in parables and downvote legitimate conversation.
pastrybanking commented on Norwegian developer job board for Ukrainian refugees kode24.no/tech-jobs-norwa... · Posted by u/retrojorgen
I think it's a mistake to narrow it down to religion.
Countries with high corruption have a different social contract, and it takes time for people to internalise how things are done 'over here'.
I am not sure the argument for corruption adds up, given Ukraine's global corruption perception index scores are comparable to developing nations in Africa and Asia.
pastrybanking commented on Norwegian developer job board for Ukrainian refugees kode24.no/tech-jobs-norwa... · Posted by u/retrojorgen
While it's not nice, it's pretty obvious why European countries are happier to welcome the easily integrated white christian European Ukrainians than the significantly more difficult to integrate Middle Eastern refugees.
I see this statement a lot, but I am yet to see it substantiated. My home country hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees[1] however, speaking anecdotally, integrating people is difficult despite common ethnicities, languages, religions and cultures.
pastrybanking commented on Vanced has been discontinued twitter.com/YTVanced/stat... · Posted by u/nixass
Tbh I just pay for YT premium. I hate ads that much and always said I’d pay to avoid them. Money where my mouth is.
Mind you, YT premium is not available in all countries.
As a black African, I still have sympathy for the people of Ukraine. Even on this forum, I have been accused of "stupid whining" when commenting on the plight of brown, foreign students who happen to be caught in this war.
Putin may be a lunatic, but the western world should check on itself.
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South Africa is one of the most beautiful countries on the planet. It has the raw ingredients to be a global economic powerhouse. What its government - and ostensibly the people voting for it - are doing to it is so sad to see.