Tiime to start having a critical view of stats, plenty of sites can give you an apple for apple comparison, current rate of unemployment >10% if comparing with figures from post war/great depression
You wouldn't expect the 8000 existing women in defence just to abandon their established career paths in their current jobs and head over to the infantry where they would start from scratch, nor would you expect a sudden rush of female recruits wanting to be the first to trail blaze a path.
So you think adding women to the labour market creates unemployment???
Agreed assuming all things are indeed equal.
No doubt about mecanisation [and now computer power/AI], but this is also the oft quoted rhetoric used by the pro immigration camp in Europe with a good 40y of matching experience and abysmal "success"; As for raising living standards, tell that to any people struggling to pay a mortgage on inflated house price, yet GDP is booming indeed..
it does when there are no jobs around, and so create a deflation/lowering for all, save as immigration.
More thoughts about Social engineering. Prime consideration is creating a particular view of the world that conforms to certain expectations.
The latest blockbuster Dunkirk offers an example of social engineering which many people would not appreciate until it's pointed out.
Why the lack of Indian and African faces in Dunkirk matters
Sunny Singh
The blockbuster purports to be a historical portrayal, but in fact it’s a whitewash. And these decisions help corrode societal attitudes
• Sunny Singh is a British-based writer. Her latest novel is Hotel Arcadia
‘The French army deployed at Dunkirk included soldiers from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and other colonies, and in substantial numbers. But we don’t see them.’ Photograph: Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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Tuesday 1 August 2017 17.00 AEST Last modified on Tuesday 1 August 2017 21.19 AEST
What a surprise that Nigel Farage has endorsed the new fantasy-disguised-as-historical war film, Dunkirk. Christopher Nolan’s movie is an inadvertently timely, thinly veiled Brexiteer fantasy in which plucky Britons heroically retreat from the dangerous shores of Europe. Most importantly, it pushes the narrative that it was Britain as it exists today – and not the one with a global empire – that stood alone against the “European peril”.
To do so, it erases the Royal Indian Army Services Corp companies, which were not only on the beach, but tasked with transporting supplies over terrain that was inaccessible for the British Expeditionary Force’s motorised transport companies. It also ignores the fact that by 1938, lascars – mostly from South Asia and East Africa – counted for one of four crewmen on British merchant vessels, and thus participated in large numbers in the evacuation.
But Nolan’s erasures are not limited to the British. The French army deployed at Dunkirk included soldiers from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and other colonies, and in substantial numbers. Some non-white faces are visible in one crowd scene, but that’s it. The film forgets the racialised pecking order that determined life and death for both British and French colonial troops at Dunkirk and after it.
This is important, firstly, because it is a matter of factual accuracy in what purports to be an historical portrayal – and also because it was the colonial troops who were crucial in averting absolute catastrophe for the allies. It is also important because, more than history books and school lessons, popular culture shapes and informs our imagination not only of the past, but of our present and future.
The stories that we share among ourselves give us the vision of our individual and collective identities. When those stories consistently – and in a big budget, well-researched production like Dunkirk, one must assume, purposefully – erase the presence of those who are still considered “other” and less-than-equal, these narratives also decide who is seen as “us” as opposed to “them”. Does this removal of those deemed “foreign” and “other” from narratives of the past express a discomfort with the same people in the present? More chillingly, does it also contain a wish to excise the same people from a utopian, national future?
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...n-african-dunkirk-history-whitewash-attitudes
I know it is not politically correct but when the war started , you had very few colonial troops in Europe and you would not have seem many[ if any ] non white face in Dunkerque.
In the north of France, I have serious doubts.But hey I could be wrong;
Another 50 year and any movie about WW2 will have as many women as men fighting, a good 20% of transgenders , at least 50% of the women/men being gay; all german baddies will be white, christian and male, all freedom fighter coloured (any but white) and muslim;
What is your point, you said you doubted there was any Indian forces in the area at the early stages of the war, the news reels show there was.
Another 50 year and any movie about WW2 will have as many women as men fighting, a good 20% of transgenders , at least 50% of the women/men being gay; all german baddies will be white, christian and male, all freedom fighter coloured (any but white) and muslim;
No one ever smoking/drinking and all women wearing trousers while nazi commanders will be displayed as Trump caricatures taken from the 2017 TV selected newsreels
I so look for the future
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