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To: Neocon who wrote (12924)6/26/1999 5:28:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 17770
 
Re: As to the article, at worst, it demonstrates a determination to employ natives first, to the detriment of immigrants. Since most of the immigrants are European, it can hardly be characterized as racist...

Well, unfortunately your French is not as ''exceptionally good'' as my English is --otherwise you'd have been able to grasp the testimonies of Brussels' youths who're routinely dismissed at VW's hiring gate....
Note that it's not a matter of citizenship (they're all European): it's their ethnical background (Moroccan, Turkish, and the like) that bars them from belonging to the ''large VW family''. Just to help you to get the picture: imagine that VW's Brussels plant was discriminating against applicants with Jewish-sounding names as well --dig it?