Wall Street Still finds Ways to Hire Foreigners

It was just a decade back when foreigners were rushing to America in search of better opportunities, better jobs and higher standards of living. Today, there is a shift in this trend and people are leaving America for a better opportunity elsewhere. One can debate on this topic - is it right to leave your country, your mother-land in search of better life. Similarly, one can debate on the related topic - is it right for businesses to employ people from other countries, give them better opportunity and more money to make their own business a successful one.

The government is giving money to companies; stimulus packages for businesses to recover from the downturn. In return the government is expecting the companies to seek out Americans for the open job positions. It seems reasonable when it is put in this way. But if you go back in time, a decade back, it was a time when companies lured highly qualified people from all over the world to run their business, make their company grow and expand. The foreigners were behind the growth and prosperity of the business, the economy and the country. Now, the same foreigners are looked upon as people who are taking away the jobs from Americans.

I think it is time for us to see beyond borders. We have to view this in global sense. People choose to live in a particular place for a number of reasons. People may choose a place because of better career opportunity or for a particular lifestyle or to live with their family and friends or just because of great weather. It could be a personal choice or could be due to immigration laws. It could be something that they can control or something that is just the way the life is for them.

What bothers me is the ethical discussion and debates around this subject and the way it influences the thinking of people and the laws of the place. It is basic human characteristic to seek out better opportunity for himself. There is nothing right or wrong about it. It is just human. A decade back, this country was viewed as the happening place for technology and so people moved here. Today, if the happening place shifts from America to China, there will be movement to that part of the world. People will go where there is opportunity. Companies will give jobs to the best people who make their business prosper. Period.

The people living at a particular time make up the country; a sum total of people from different regions of the world. The country should try to provide the best opportunity to the people who live there; the people living in a place have to give their best to the society they are living in. This is my view of globalization!