Какова причина, по мнению Марки, того, что европейцы предпочитают оставаться безработными? Разделяете ли вы его мнение?

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НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ХАРАКТЕР, НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ МЕНТАЛИТЕТ

Приведите определения «культурно заряженных» слов John Wayne approach, Back-slapping American; keep up with the Joneses, recycle, to brown bag, flag-waving American, Mexican promotion, car pool, majority rule, powwow, grass roots

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NOT MADE FOR WALKING

Why won’t Europeans move to where the jobs are? That reluctance is one of the biggest barriers to a more dynamic EU.

There is a scene in Michael Moor’s “Roger & Me”, the 1989 documentary featuring GM factory closings, in which a laid-off worker in depressed Flint, Michigan, can’t leave town. All the moving companies and truck rentals are booked for six months, it seems, as a daily trek of job-seekers set out for brighter prospects in California or Texas.

Compare that with Europe. Two weeks ago GM announced a fresh round of layoffs at its struggling German plants. But how many of those unlucky 10,000 workers will be loading moving vans in Bochum and Rüsselsheim and heading for booming Bavaria, let alone Budapest or Barcelona? Not more than a handful, if that. Like hundreds of thousands before them, nearly all will go home and collect unemployment checks – probably for years. Says Werner Marquis, spokesman for the Bochum unemployment office: “Work isn’t something people move for around here.”

Как вы думаете, на какие черты национального характера ссылается автор (Стивен Тейль) и использует для сравнения культур? К каким ценностям он обращается? Насколько американские и европейские ценности сопоставимы?

Or elsewhere in Europe. Like those German workers Marquis says are “securely rooted in their region,” the vast majority of the now 18 million jobless Europeans are unlikely to ever look beyond their own backyards for work. No matter that regions such as southern Germany, northern Italy and much of England are close to full employment and practically begging for outside labor. Europeans just won’t go to where the jobs are.

Какова причина, по мнению Марки, того, что европейцы предпочитают оставаться безработными? Разделяете ли вы его мнение?

Think of Silicon Valley, just one of many regions in America that sucks in (and spits out) tens of thousands of new workers every year. The secret of its success is intellectual interchange, fed by continual infusions of new blood. Draw the contrast to Europe: in 2000, only 16.4 percent of its workers had been with their employer for less than a year, compared with 30 percent in the United States. Just 1.4 percent of Europeans moved between regions that year, compared with 5.9 percent of Americans. When it comes to moving between EU member countries, only 0.1 percent of the total EU population – or 225,000 people – took advantage of their right to live and work anywhere in the Union.

Источник: Stefan Theil. Not Made for Walking // Newsweek. – November 1, 2004. – p. 36 - 38

Подумайте о возможной реакции европейцев на эту статью. Приведет ли подобное описание к какому-нибудь конфликту когнитивное замешательство, легкое культурное столкновение (конфликт с благими намерениями, конфликт). Сравните ваши предположения с мнениями, изложенными в ответ на появление этой статьи.

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