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'Visa War': EU Votes to Bar Visa-Free Travel for American Citizens - 1 views

www.commondreams.org/...-free-travel-american-citizens

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shared by haubertbr on 03 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • haubertbr on 03 Mar 17
     
    United States citizens traveling to Europe will soon have to pay for a visa to enter the continental bloc, thanks to an escalating "visa war," as the Telegraph puts it, between the U.S. and the European Union. The European Parliament, "by a show of hands, [on Wednesday] urged the Commission to adopt restrictive measures against U.S.
Javier E

How To Repel Tourism « The Dish - 0 views

dish.andrewsullivan.com/...how-to-repel-tourists

tourism US xenophobe paranoid insular

shared by Javier E on 03 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • In short: Demanding a visa from a country’s travelers in advance is associated with a 70 percent lower level of tourist entries than from a similar country where there is no visa requirement. The U.S. requires an advance visa from citizens of 81 percent of the world’s countries; if it waived that requirement, the researchers estimate, inbound tourism arrivals would more than double, and tourism expenditure would climb by $123 billion.
  • what it is like to enter the US as a non-citizen. It’s a grueling, off-putting, frightening, and often brutal process. Compared with entering a European country, it’s like entering a police state. When you add the sheer difficulty of getting a visa, the brusque, rude and contemptuous treatment you routinely get from immigration officials at the border, the sense that all visitors are criminals and potential terrorists unless proven otherwise, the US remains one of the most unpleasant places for anyone in the world to try and get access to.
  • And this, of course, is a function not only of a vast and all-powerful bureaucracy. It’s a function of this country’s paranoia and increasing insularity. It’s a thoroughly democratic decision to keep foreigners out as much as possible. And it’s getting worse and worse.
sissij

Trump Administration Orders Tougher Screening of Visa Applicants - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...eme-vetting-rex-tillerson.html

bias social media new york times

shared by sissij on 25 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • sissij on 25 Mar 17
     
    Since Trump took presidency, the policy on immigration became harsher and stricter. Many people are facing a choice, sty or leave. There are a lot of foreign students who want to stay in the United States and find jobs after graduation. However, it is getting harder for foreign students to get a chance as the time is very limited for them to find a job and companies have to consider whether they want to hire foreign employees and go through those complicated processes. Although Trump uses security as a reason, I think it is overly strict. --Sissi (3/24/2017)
sissij

How Did I Celebrate Becoming American? Protesting Trump - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...become-an-american-is-now.html

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shared by sissij on 25 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • But, I would sheepishly explain to my friends, immigration benefits are a privilege rather than a right. When applying for a work visa, or for a green card, or for naturalization, I would have to document every citation and arrest.
  • But a few years ago — long before Britons voted to leave the European Union or Donald J. Trump announced that he was running for president — I started to worry that liberal democracy was under real threat in the United States and around the world.
  • In my studies, I showed that citizens now give less importance to living in a democracy than they once did, and that they are more open to authoritarian alternatives like military rule.
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  • The moment felt no less meaningful to me. For the very first time, I was standing up to the unjust actions of my government.
  • sissij on 25 Mar 17
     
    I found this article very interesting  as this new residence of the United States talks about his belief in the liberal democracy. Nationality means a responsibility and loyalty. I really admire his courage to stand up. The author said how the government now didn't care for the minority and uses "people" as a shield and as a reason to justify all their behaviors. Inclusiveness is an important characteristic of the American government and the author thinks now the government is being exclusive. --Sissi (3/24/2017)
Javier E

To Cut My Spending, I Used Behavioral Economics on Myself - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...569575

spending behavioral economics Psychology

shared by Javier E on 07 Sep 18 - No Cached
  • “The average person, in my view, a lot of the overspending they do isn’t in the small things, which your system is likely to deal with,” he said. “But it’s large things that are often quite invisible, and wouldn’t be picked up by your system.” There are usually more savings to be had from revisiting one’s auto- or home-insurance policy, or one’s phone bill, than from skipping the marginal cup of coffee. Loewenstein said it’s more effective to make changes with larger “one-time decisions,” instead of regularly having to make “all these micro-decisions.”
  • the dynamics that shape spending. On one side of each credit-card swipe are multiple financial corporations—a phalanx of marketers, programmers, and data analysts who have perfect visibility into countless transactions, and who are thus armed with plentiful information about people’s purchases. On the other is the individual, who lacks this bird’s-eye view and is effectively on their own as they weigh whether and how much to spend at any given time. This arrangement seems lopsided and unfair
  • “A lot of the problem is us … We tend to blame the credit-card industry for our own desire to have a standard of living that is beyond what our income is. You can’t blame Visa for that.” He said the focus should be on norms, and how individual action can alter them—maybe two friends cook dinner together instead of going out. The goal, Pollack says, would be a culture that prizes restraint without being puritanical.
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  • What would create such a culture? There is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which (in theory) provides high-level government oversight, and there are small individual actions (like, say, meticulously tracking one’s purchases), but there isn’t something in between—a powerful advocacy group, a mainstream cultural movement, or something else not yet built or imagined—that serves as a counterweight to the pressure on Americans to spend.
maxwellokolo

How America's Idea Of Illegal Immigration Doesn't Always Match Reality - 1 views

www.npr.org/...on-doesnt-always-match-reality

shared by maxwellokolo on 08 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • maxwellokolo on 08 Mar 17
     
    When you think of illegal immigration in the U.S., do you picture a border crosser or a visa overstayer? A family or a single person? A farmworker or a waiter? People living in the U.S. without legal status are frequently invoked in American politics - especially in recent months.
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