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[scot47]

But if you have to be a US citizen it is quite clearly NOT Equal Opportunities !

[globalnomad2]

A US company is not compelled to offer equal hiring opportunities to non-citizens.

[ootii]

[globalnomad2]

That's an irrelevant and silly comment. The issue has nothing to do with the internet, as labor laws regarding job ads came in long before the internet and applied at first to newspaper/journal ads.

Your comment is also inaccurate. Anybody can post anything they want on the Internet, including discriminatory job ads, as long as the latter are not by US-based employers hiring in the US.

[Cleopatra]

[globalnomad2]

Cleo is absolutely right. In the real world, employers discriminate in all sorts of ways. I had arguments with my Malaysian-Chinese wife, who believes employers shouldn't hire fat people because she believes if you're fat you must be too lazy and undisciplined to take care of yourself.

Still, hiring laws are needed. They do have a positive effect. I believe they trickle down into the culture that discrimination is bad. Moreover, habitual flouting of hiring laws can result in massive and successful class-action lawsuits against employers.

[MIKEBUCHAN]

I think some of you just like to argue and nit pick moot points of different culture/nationality/laws and the like.

I believe that I answered the question in the second or third post to answer the OP's asking about all the abbreviations. And I have read that vieledsentiments and globalnomad2 have done a very good job of enlightening all of you.

However, I still see an attitude to angatonize.............

Mike

[globalnomad2]

Yes. In any case, NYC or San Francisco are far more cosmopolitan than Edinburgh or Glasgow. And "USAnals" as Scot47 puts it in his inimitably bigoted way, are not all provincial yahoos, even those who haven't traveled that much. Let's see a little more analysis here and less bigotry.

[Longton]

The Chinese government has minimum height requirements for people wishing to join their diplomatic service. This is so non-Chinese diplomats, particularly those from western countries, can't look down on the Chinese and make them feel inferior. British police used to have minimum height requirements but in the era of political correctness I think the requirements have been removed.

[globalnomad2]

Yes...well all East Asian countries can discriminate in any way they want, as long as it is not against a Muslim (in Malaysia and Indonesia). All flight attendants in Asian airlines must be young and pretty. I was just in Manila for a visit...hotels require their front-desk clerks to be under 25 and basically beautiful models. You can see this in writing at, for example, the Richmonde Hotel web site. The same seems true for the rest of East Asia.

[ootii]

[globalnomad2]

Oh, Lord. Dave's is a US-based web site. The ad was posted by a US company and designed primarily for US citizens. Why is that so hard to understand? If you wish to place a discriminatory ad on Dave's to hire people from outside the US to work for a non-US employer, you can do that. Otherwise if you are a US entity hiring from the US, you open yourself to civil and possibly criminal lawsuits if your ad is discriminatory.

[ootii]

[globalnomad2]

Take comfort in pretending the UAE is still part of the now-defunct British Empire. It is, defacto--if one can believe a newspaper account I read that said some quarter-million Brits will be living in their Dubai condos by the end of the decade?? Seems like a fanciful number to me. And if it isn't, I hope all those people realize that buying a condo in Dubai is one thing but selling it later is quite another. But that's a topic for another day.

[ootii]