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Originally Posted by elphenor
it's a curiously suggestive thought that the reason Norway does so well is their homogenous culture
he's not talking about white people migrating there when he says "rest of the world" I don't think
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It's funny how some people will take a socialist position one minute and then propagate a racist talking point the next minute.
When it comes to Norwegian work life: it is true that increased work immigration the last fifteen-twenty years has challenged wages and working conditions in some trades, due to the increased competition from cheap labor. This has especially been the case in building and construction, where companies more often hire immigrants (increasingly through casualized contracts) and give them lower wages than their organized, Norwegian counterparts. A lot of the time this is done illegally. Tories both in the Labor and Conservative party have ignored it. They're in love with the European Union, and don't care about what happens on the workplaces, or about the working conditions of immigrants. A new term, "social dumping", has been coined to describe the ruthless exploitation of immigrant labor in Norwegian workplaces. Bourgeois politicians either shove it under the carpet, talk nice about it and do nothing, or blame it on the immigrants themselves.
- First off: none of this is the fault of immigrants themselves. It is the fault of the companies that exploit cheap immigrant labor for profit, and the politicians that side with the capitalists.
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vast majority of work immigrants that come to Norway are white and European. Most of them come from Sweden and Poland.
Tories and populists spread the often-time racist myth about brown people coming here to take "Norwegian" jobs and ruin working conditions. It is simply not true, and perpetuating such myths will never do anything to improve the lives of working people, no matter how much one talks about "preserving Norwegian society" or whatever.