[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=bearishgurl] Other countries reserve their best jobs for their own natives and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s as it should be.[/quote]

You would be wrong. Companies and countries that strive for excellence hire the best people.

That’s why Americans work as “experts” around for the world, more so in past decades.

The difference now is that we have globalization of education, and many foreigners are better than us so our best companies want to hire them.

For example, you have plenty of Americans working at Emirates and Etihad, some of the best airlines in the world. Americans work for big foreign oil companies, and on large infrastructure projects everywhere in the world because the natives are less qualified.

Global companies need a global workforce. Simple economics (BTW, I didn’t say that economics is everything. A social agenda is needed. But economics are necessary to build wealth).[/quote]

I have to agree with BG, here. In Germany, and I can only speak about germany, pecking order for cushy jobs are more or less as followed: Germans, white western europeans, eastern europeans, asians (japanese, koreans, chinese, … in that order). Unless, you’re a genius, your ethnicity is more important than your skills in getting those jobs. Foreign consultants is just an anomaly to what reality is.