Although living standards here may be somewhat declining, Canada is still a culture of relative comfort. Perhaps that’s why I've long noticed how the general work ethic practiced by new immigrants and migrants is commendable, perhaps even exceptional.
This also applies to their employment with the produce harvesting sector. And there, the jobseeker likely also finds that big business greed insatiably always seeks the cheapest labor possible and migrants are an expedient means to this goal.
Nevertheless, it’s back-breaking work that almost all second and third (etcetera) generation Westerners won’t tolerate for themselves, myself included. I can truly imagine such laborers being more productive than their born-and-reared-here counterparts.
I’m not implying that a strong work ethic is a trait racially genetically inherited by one generation from a preceding generation, etcetera. Rather, it’s an admirable culturally determined factor, though also in large part motivated by the said culture’s internal and surrounding economic and political conditions.
However, I believe that once they’ve resided here for a number of decades, their strong work ethics and higher-than-average productivity, unfortunately, gradually diminishes as these motivated laborers’ descendant generations’ young people become accustomed to the relatively more slackened Western way of life.
One can already witness this effect in such youth getting caught up in much of our overall urban/suburban liberal culture — e.g. attire, lingo, nightlife, as well as work. Indeed, Western ‘values’ assimilation often means the unfortunate acquisition of a distasteful yet strong sense of entitlement.
John Adams said “I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."
Such is the immigrant generational experience: back breaking jobs-middle class jobs-loafer
Although living standards here may be somewhat declining, Canada is still a culture of relative comfort. Perhaps that’s why I've long noticed how the general work ethic practiced by new immigrants and migrants is commendable, perhaps even exceptional.
This also applies to their employment with the produce harvesting sector. And there, the jobseeker likely also finds that big business greed insatiably always seeks the cheapest labor possible and migrants are an expedient means to this goal.
Nevertheless, it’s back-breaking work that almost all second and third (etcetera) generation Westerners won’t tolerate for themselves, myself included. I can truly imagine such laborers being more productive than their born-and-reared-here counterparts.
I’m not implying that a strong work ethic is a trait racially genetically inherited by one generation from a preceding generation, etcetera. Rather, it’s an admirable culturally determined factor, though also in large part motivated by the said culture’s internal and surrounding economic and political conditions.
However, I believe that once they’ve resided here for a number of decades, their strong work ethics and higher-than-average productivity, unfortunately, gradually diminishes as these motivated laborers’ descendant generations’ young people become accustomed to the relatively more slackened Western way of life.
One can already witness this effect in such youth getting caught up in much of our overall urban/suburban liberal culture — e.g. attire, lingo, nightlife, as well as work. Indeed, Western ‘values’ assimilation often means the unfortunate acquisition of a distasteful yet strong sense of entitlement.
John Adams said “I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."
Such is the immigrant generational experience: back breaking jobs-middle class jobs-loafer