Word: menials
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...northward into a territory that once was their own. Drawn by the hope of a better life, approximately 90 per cent of the illegal immigrants are able-bodied young men without work in Mexico, victims of agricultural mechanization and a wildly expanding population, who are willing to work at menial jobs for longer hours and lower wages than Americans. They are Mexico's discontented: young, ambitious and frustrated. And many of them are crossing the unseen line, undeterred by rivers, mountains, deserts, men, guns or electronic detection devices. Often they arrive to find they are viewed with hostile eyes...
...boom years of West Germany's economic miracle, the Gastarbeiter (primarily from Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and Spain) were welcomed by labor-hungry industries. Major reason: they willingly accepted menial jobs disdained by most West Germans. But since unemployment began to rise in late 1973, the foreigners have found themselves treated as excess baggage, even though most continue to hold jobs and gratefully work long hours. Bonn has barred German firms from hiring new Gastarbeiter from countries outside the European Community. (Common Market rules guarantee citizens of its member states freedom of movement within the Community.) The government...
...Zone is three hours long and somewhat repetitive, but its temperature rises steadily as it proceeds. At first it seems that Wiseman has made this film only to poke obvious fun at colonialism: he includes some all too pointed shots of the downtrodden Panamanians who perform the Americans' menial labor. By the time Canal Zone reaches its Memorial Day climax, however, it becomes as bitter as Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
...blooded Polynesians and 140,000 citizens of mixed blood. In the land of their ancestors, they are greatly outnumbered by the islands' 720,000 other residents-predominantly Caucasians and Orientals. Barely half of the native Hawaiians have completed high school (v. 72% of the other islanders), most have menial jobs, and their annual income averages just under $10,000, about $1,000 less than that of the state as a whole. Moreover, according to a survey by Alu Like, a cultural organization, native Hawaiians "frequently report a loss of pride and bitterness resulting from historic loss of their family...
...will be of foreign descent by the year 2000. Warns Schwarz: "The big problem will come in the next decade when 100,000 to 200,000 immigrant children will be coming out of the schools without cultural pride but still without being Swedes. These people will not accept the menial jobs their fathers did. They will want to become judges and generals when the society is not ready. It is a real social time bomb...