Posted by: everestial007 February 1, 2020
अमेरिकामा नेपालीलाई दुःख छ, सकभर नजानुस
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Misleading interview.

I have heard many people talk this way. The main reason is that many who come to US come from an elite and good familial background (I am not talking about super elites though) and had average to good access to previleges in Nepal (and I mean this in the context of the socio-economic conditions of Nepal).

When they arrive in US they drop down to the pool of low socio-economic group and will have to work their ass off to make money and the living. At the mean time most of these will also spend good amount of this earning to buy the luxury they once dreamt of e.g latest phone, car, sending gifts to Nepal (as a matter of courtesy). To recover this cost they have to work even more (which turns into a cycle) and hence this saying - life was easy in Nepal.

These people do not see how much hard life is for people of low socio-economic group in Nepal eg. kids who work on microbus, homeless kids, young people who migrate to kathmandu and work in hotel, restaurant, people who sell vegetables on the street, and people in the villages and rural parts of the country etc.

These complaining people have only seen life in easiest part of Nepal (dominantly Kathmandu and few other cities), had wealth transferred from their ancestors and are mostly the ones who did not had to do any labor work.

Most (and I mean most) of the people from under average socio-economic family cannot afford to come to US and mainly migrate to Middle East as laborers, Korea etc. the few good and smart ones will get to work in hotels, airlines etc. but for the most of them the life is more difficult than for the ones who are in US.

The guy in the interview says - you cannot make your own schedule. Does the kid working in restaurant or any other laborer in Nepal get to make his own schedule?

Key thing to understand is life is difficult for anyone and everywhere if you belong to the low socioeconomic group in that part of the globe. The irony is that in the US the one from low socioecnomic profile can purchase few luxuries from his/her earning because the earnings are relatively high and the product prices are relatively low compared to the people of low socio ecnomic profile from mostly other countries. But, if you keep up with luxury every time the cycle of earning-spending never ceases and you have to keep your ass on the work to pay the credit for what your purchased.

Many people will take a few sample from their surroundings and then make a holistic assumptions and inferences about others. The main reason is people do not know how to do statistics and check properly if a certain thing/process/phenomenon is true only locally but not globally. You should know that when making a comparison between peoples you have to compare the ones who are working the same jobs, had same level of access to education, age, attitude towards work, family stability etc.

But too much of this.
I can tell for the most part his interview is misrepresented by his personal experience. He is exaggerating what really happens in US, and if did not happened anywhere else.

On the last note, life for Nepalese in IT are being much easier compared to the ones who do other jobs. Well there is a reason for that, but many fail to understand. This will be another story.









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