On 28 Feb 2007 14:48:21 -0800, "Markus"
typed:
>Why are there so many barriers and restrictions in terms of gaining
>employment between the 4 groups of USA+Canada, UK+Ireland, Australia
>+NZ and South Africa. They all have common histories, can understand
>one another and have common cultural links (to a greater or lesser
>extent), and yet the UK and Ireland seem to be trapped in a
>multilingual europe, without a desire to become multilingual,
>Americans and Canadians are prevented from working easily in London
>and vice versa Brits and Irish in the USA (unless you can find a
>company that is a multinational etc. etc. and transfer), and the
>Australians and New Zealanders face similar problems...
>
>It all seems so stupid that Aussies have to rely on ancestral visas
>(which will be, as each generation grows up, ever more impossible), to
>work in the UK and brits face equally harsh quota restrictions.
>
>It is a shame, and somehow so wrong that would should be a chance for
>people to live and work in such different and far flung parts of the
>world, is ruined by regional blocs.
simple...the religion of 'equality'
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