I had this debate a few days ago. I'll start off by saying I'm argentinian. Born here, lived here all my life. I embrace legal immigration from every country to ours, and I think it's racist to be against it.
Here's my reasoning. I'm offered an H1-B visa from someone in the US for my knowledge and skills in a particular area. I move there legally, acquire a home, pay taxes, do everything a normal citizen should. This is immigrating there.
However, many people have issues if I charge less money than a local for a comparative or better job or particular task. How can someone be against me doing that, when I'm paying the exact same money you are for living there, my living expenses are the same if not higher, I'm contributing to the government by paying my taxes, and I'm willing to take the job for less money?
These same people, I doubt would complain had I been born in US soil. The only difference is, then, where I was born, since my other activities are the same as that of someone born there. Therefore they are discriminating against me based on where I was born. That is racism.
If I'm willing to do the same job with comparative quality, while paying the same taxes as you, and charge less, and a company there hires me, it's because I deserve it. If I'm willing or not to live in the same conditions as a local working the same job (I'm talking neighbourhood, food, social habits, etc.) it's my own issue, not yours. If you are willing to charge less for the same quality job, and live in a worse environment than I do, go right ahead. It's your prerogative, you've earned the job and are more what the company is looking for than I am. If I have to pay the same living costs as you do, pay the same taxes, and manage to live legally while asking for less money than you do, it's simply that I'm more fit than you are to survive.
That being said, I'm against illegal immigration, and don't justify it. We do have illegal immigration problems here in Argentina, especially in the textile and construction industries, from most of our neighbours. I completely disagree with that. But you'd be quite wrong to think that I would pick an argentinian that wants $2500 a month, to a legally immigrated bolivian wanting $2000 a month for the same quality job, if both are presenting similar qualifications. Choosing the argentinian one would make me racist.
Perhaps I'm being obtuse - would someone mind explaining me why a paraguayan person immigrating here, living here, paying his taxes, and asking equal or less than a local person, with similar qualifications, is less fit for the job?
Nope.
Time dilation and space contraction take place here. Relativity states that if, say, you were going at 75% of the speed of light, and shot a missile at 50% the speed of light, neither you, nor the torpedo, nor a 3rd observer would see the torpedo go faster than light. They'd see it go juuust under c, about 95% of c. In relativity, adding of velocities isn't as simple as absolute v + relative v, it's an asymptotic function that means you never actually reach the speed of light.
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Even though these particles do appear in natural high-energy collisions, it's the first time they'll be studied in this much detail. The collisions will be nothing new, and there's no danger to "Life as we know it", but we'll be able to obtain a great amount of detailed information about what happens when these particles collide.
So yes, basically, the claim is false if you take "seen" to mean "have happened". "Everyday collisions being studied at CERN" would not get that much attention.
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I had this debate a few days ago. I'll start off by saying I'm argentinian. Born here, lived here all my life. I embrace legal immigration from every country to ours, and I think it's racist to be against it.
Here's my reasoning. I'm offered an H1-B visa from someone in the US for my knowledge and skills in a particular area. I move there legally, acquire a home, pay taxes, do everything a normal citizen should. This is immigrating there.
However, many people have issues if I charge less money than a local for a comparative or better job or particular task. How can someone be against me doing that, when I'm paying the exact same money you are for living there, my living expenses are the same if not higher, I'm contributing to the government by paying my taxes, and I'm willing to take the job for less money?
These same people, I doubt would complain had I been born in US soil. The only difference is, then, where I was born, since my other activities are the same as that of someone born there. Therefore they are discriminating against me based on where I was born. That is racism.
If I'm willing to do the same job with comparative quality, while paying the same taxes as you, and charge less, and a company there hires me, it's because I deserve it. If I'm willing or not to live in the same conditions as a local working the same job (I'm talking neighbourhood, food, social habits, etc.) it's my own issue, not yours. If you are willing to charge less for the same quality job, and live in a worse environment than I do, go right ahead. It's your prerogative, you've earned the job and are more what the company is looking for than I am. If I have to pay the same living costs as you do, pay the same taxes, and manage to live legally while asking for less money than you do, it's simply that I'm more fit than you are to survive.
That being said, I'm against illegal immigration, and don't justify it. We do have illegal immigration problems here in Argentina, especially in the textile and construction industries, from most of our neighbours. I completely disagree with that. But you'd be quite wrong to think that I would pick an argentinian that wants $2500 a month, to a legally immigrated bolivian wanting $2000 a month for the same quality job, if both are presenting similar qualifications. Choosing the argentinian one would make me racist.
Perhaps I'm being obtuse - would someone mind explaining me why a paraguayan person immigrating here, living here, paying his taxes, and asking equal or less than a local person, with similar qualifications, is less fit for the job?
Nope. Time dilation and space contraction take place here. Relativity states that if, say, you were going at 75% of the speed of light, and shot a missile at 50% the speed of light, neither you, nor the torpedo, nor a 3rd observer would see the torpedo go faster than light. They'd see it go juuust under c, about 95% of c. In relativity, adding of velocities isn't as simple as absolute v + relative v, it's an asymptotic function that means you never actually reach the speed of light.
The second. Even though these particles do appear in natural high-energy collisions, it's the first time they'll be studied in this much detail. The collisions will be nothing new, and there's no danger to "Life as we know it", but we'll be able to obtain a great amount of detailed information about what happens when these particles collide. So yes, basically, the claim is false if you take "seen" to mean "have happened". "Everyday collisions being studied at CERN" would not get that much attention.
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