Comments on: “Third World as Retirement Home”>>These Negros http://newmodelminority.com/2010/01/27/third-world-as-retirement-homethese-negros/ Thugs, Feminist and Boom Bap Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:40:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://newmodelminority.com/2010/01/27/third-world-as-retirement-homethese-negros/comment-page-1/#comment-11954 admin Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:01:11 +0000 http://newmodelminority.com/?p=2959#comment-11954 Kijoro! Thank you for commenting. Girrrrrrrrrrrrrl. Let me tell you. What’s interesting is that, in the end, none of the class really minded that this happens, they were just upset that THEY weren’t be the ones retiring. They just want to be the ones with the financial power, too. ====== Two weeks ago, we read, probably what is one of my favorite books this year, which is <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=sbL5UNcvFKEC&dq=servants+of+globalization&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=shGeS_3_McL38AaBvbG7Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow">Servants of Globalization by Rachel Parrenas</a> which looks at Fillipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angelos. The MOST profound take aways from the book are: *Many of these women have higher education, and worked as accountants admins in the Philippines, but they make MORE money as domestic workers abroad so that just take the L. *Many of the women work as domestic workers abroad while simultaneously, employing maids at home for their parents and GET THIS, are waiting to return home so that THEY can afford maids. <<<<<< This blew my mind. They literally fantasize, about returning home and having maids. Wherever I am, I am the worker. I am not the one who retires.” =========== Ain't that some shit. Ummm. Ummm. Ummmp. That class conversation sounds awesome. Being a waitress last summer completly politicized me in a way that I had not expected. Thank you for sharing. ~Renina Kijoro!
Thank you for commenting.
Girrrrrrrrrrrrrl. Let me tell you.

What’s interesting is that, in the end, none of the class really minded that this happens, they were just upset that THEY weren’t be the ones retiring. They just want to be the ones with the financial power, too.
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Two weeks ago, we read, probably what is one of my favorite books this year, which is Servants of Globalization
by Rachel Parrenas which looks at Fillipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angelos.

The MOST profound take aways from the book are:
*Many of these women have higher education, and worked as accountants admins in the Philippines, but they make MORE money as domestic workers abroad so that just take the L.
*Many of the women work as domestic workers abroad while simultaneously, employing maids at home for their parents and GET THIS, are waiting to return home so that THEY can afford maids. <<<<<< This blew my mind. They literally fantasize, about returning home and having maids.

Wherever I am, I am the worker. I am not the one who retires.”
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Ain't that some shit. Ummm. Ummm. Ummmp.

That class conversation sounds awesome.
Being a waitress last summer completly politicized me in a way that I had not expected.

Thank you for sharing.
~Renina

]]> By: Kijoro http://newmodelminority.com/2010/01/27/third-world-as-retirement-homethese-negros/comment-page-1/#comment-11952 Kijoro Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:42:22 +0000 http://newmodelminority.com/?p=2959#comment-11952 I'm an English teacher for immigrants and refugees. A few weeks ago we were discussing ideas of racial and cultural identity. I asked what it means to be Mexican, Polish, Sudanese, or Chinese and if that is different in Chicago than their place of origin. One Mexican woman nearly jumped out of her seat exclaiming, "No! The American people come to my home to retire. They buy a big house on the beach and hire people to clean and cook. In Chicago, I work for them. I go home to Mexico, and I work for them. Wherever I am, I am the worker. I am not the one who retires." Her comments really startled me, but come to think of it, I saw a similar story in China and growing up in Korea as a military kid. The world is our hired help. I asked the class why that was, and it led us to a month-long discussion of capitalism and the education to make financial choices. What's interesting is that, in the end, none of the class really minded that this happens, they were just upset that THEY weren't be the ones retiring. They just want to be the ones with the financial power, too. I’m an English teacher for immigrants and refugees. A few weeks ago we were discussing ideas of racial and cultural identity. I asked what it means to be Mexican, Polish, Sudanese, or Chinese and if that is different in Chicago than their place of origin.
One Mexican woman nearly jumped out of her seat exclaiming, “No! The American people come to my home to retire. They buy a big house on the beach and hire people to clean and cook. In Chicago, I work for them. I go home to Mexico, and I work for them. Wherever I am, I am the worker. I am not the one who retires.”
Her comments really startled me, but come to think of it, I saw a similar story in China and growing up in Korea as a military kid. The world is our hired help. I asked the class why that was, and it led us to a month-long discussion of capitalism and the education to make financial choices.
What’s interesting is that, in the end, none of the class really minded that this happens, they were just upset that THEY weren’t be the ones retiring. They just want to be the ones with the financial power, too.

]]> By: manaen http://newmodelminority.com/2010/01/27/third-world-as-retirement-homethese-negros/comment-page-1/#comment-11862 manaen Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:48:21 +0000 http://newmodelminority.com/?p=2959#comment-11862 A recurring theme: . Some 20 years ago, Japan's Prime Minister experienced an angry backlash to his comment that elderly people in his country head on down to Thailand or some such inexpensive place to retire. . In our country, Colorado's Governor Richard Lamm ignited a similar reaction in 1984 with his statement that "We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life." This was widely reported as that he said that the *elderly* have a duty to die and get out of the way. (http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/29/us/gov-lamm-asserts-elderly-if-very-ill-have-duty-to-die.html) A recurring theme:
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Some 20 years ago, Japan’s Prime Minister experienced an angry backlash to his comment that elderly people in his country head on down to Thailand or some such inexpensive place to retire.
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In our country, Colorado’s Governor Richard Lamm ignited a similar reaction in 1984 with his statement that “We’ve got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.” This was widely reported as that he said that the *elderly* have a duty to die and get out of the way.
(http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/29/us/gov-lamm-asserts-elderly-if-very-ill-have-duty-to-die.html)

]]> By: Brett http://newmodelminority.com/2010/01/27/third-world-as-retirement-homethese-negros/comment-page-1/#comment-11457 Brett Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:47:24 +0000 http://newmodelminority.com/?p=2959#comment-11457 Wow, this was o profound and so true. Now I'm Mad... LOL Wow, this was o profound and so true. Now I’m Mad… LOL

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