Integration and Community
Some local Kenyan merchants complain that Chinese expatriates selling imported goods are stealing jobs from them. They accuse Chinese traders of taking photographs of their goods in order to copy the designs, and claim they have unfair advantages such as cheap labour in China local government support. Chinese people have also opened apparel factories in Kenya's export processing zones, but there have been protests against poor working conditions there. Many Chinese businesspeople, especially those in the textiles industry, try to avoid directly dealing with locals as a result of this opprobrium, instead employing Kenyan human resources managers and accountants. The Kenyan government are taking a variety of steps to attempt to address the trade imbalance between the two countries, including encouraging Chinese traders to invest in local production facilities.
Chinese people are respected by locals for the infrastructure that Chinese companies have built in Kenya, such as the Thika Road. However, engineers working in remote parts of the country on such infrastructure projects stand out significantly from locals, and often face the danger of violence as a result.
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Famous quotes containing the words integration and, integration and/or community:
“Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
“I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure—the web—of society needed reform, not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.”
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