Any job discrimination out there in the US?

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I'm landing with an immigrant visa, so I won't have a problem in that area. What is unique is that a foreign nurse with a US license and a US work contract is immediately given green cards to his/her entire immediate family.

Oldguy2, I fully sympathize with your experience in Manila. And the efficiency in US culture is a "culture shock" I would warmly, warmly embrace!

Nash, thanks for the advice. I'm not reallly obsessed with the discrimination stuff - I think it is not right to discriminate but I know there will be always be traces underneath the surface. But from most of the posts here, it's nice to be assured it's not a major issue for finance guys.

Skahammer, sorry but Filipinos aren't culturally related to Polynesians. Skin color-wise, Filipinos are Malays, which makes us of the same racial stock as Malaysians and Indonesians. As you go west to Singapore, Thailand or Vietnam or east to Polynesia, Timor and New Guinea, there would still be traces of Malay blood but other races such as Chinese would start to predominate.

Culturally, Filipinos can be said to be more Hispanic than Asian, owing to 3 centuries of Spanish colonization and also more Western due to 30 years of being a US colony. It's been said that our culture is the product of being locked up in a seminary for 300 years, followed by 30 years of Hollywood.
 
Yeah, making plans for an MBA in USA or London. It is good to know there are people from Peru in this forum.
 
Yeap!!! Lima baby!! I have been here for 2 years already. Thinking to come back for a MBA next year and see what happen after it.
 
Juan, great luck with the MBA. The student visa does give you 1 year optional practical training, that allows you to work/intern.
 
I don't think racial discrimination is common.

However, I happened to work once on a consulting project in Virginia (or DC). People there are quite ignorant about other people's abilities (say education in foreign countries). Although people don't have a clue there what they are doing, they think their education is superior to foreigners.
 
Mike, you don�t need to sympathize with my Philippine experiences. I understand that if they fixed all the bad things, then much of what is good would change. The best way to describe my experiences in Manila is the following; �it is like a love-hate relationship, where everything you experience is either really good or really bad. There is nothing in between.�

I learned that you have to live in the area where you work, so you don�t have to drive. While working in Makati, I would live in Makati. When we moved the office to Ortigas, I moved my family to Ortigas. On weekends I play golf and try to get an early tee time.

I would have to say that I would much rather work and live in the Philippines over any city in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia etc. Governments in these developed countries have imposed so many rules over the last 30 years, that they have too much control over too many things. They control everything from your house designs to how you can discipline your child. Therefore I feel much freer when I am in the Philippines.

I am presently living in Australia and I look forward to going back to the Philippines one of these days.
 
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