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El Salvador: Racist country:
Well, that gives me a little heads-up about the fact that I found my major at university de Gerrardo Barrios (Mathematical Computational Physics) as to how I might be treated there as a brown, "mestiza" person in the maths/physics field. I'm looking at Latin America and the South Pacific to get AWAY from the way I get treated in the US and KKKanada about my being competent in Maths and Physics (I get "can you even DO Maths" way too often for someone who is the daughter of an Accountant!) - I'll keep looking.
Belgium: Belgium is good for Africans:
Nice to know you feel that way about it. I heard that Belgium is NOT good for people with brown skin who are NOT Africans, not African-descended, just native Aboriginals of North or South America who people think "look African." I'm Red Indian and I'm not looking to be treated like an entire ethnicity that I'm not, so there's that. I heard that also France is pretty "good" for North Africans only in that some of those countries being former French colonies, are already citizens of France so France can't turn them away. I'm told that they don't get treated all that well, though. I applied for PhD programs in pretty much every university in Wallonia and Brussels that had one in Mathematical Physics, so what I'm looking for is to be taken seriously in that field even though I have brown skin and am female (which is NOT happening in the USA so don't even suggest that. I was born in CANADA lest you jump down my throat with "you're an American!" as people tend to do...and Canada is no better, either).
So, then, if Belgium is "good" for Africans it won't be good for people with similar colouring who are NOT Africans. But France won't be either.
Global Expat Forum: Countries for a young, single, black potential expat:
France, no.
Amsterdam is not a city.
Brasil - maybe not. I've heard that "their" nonwhite people don't get professional jobs and are mostly in service professions - dishwashing, cook, etc. That doesn't bode well for anyone with brown skin and college degrees in things like math, science, tech, computers or law.
The rest of your list, you'd probably fit in fine.
Source: I'm a "red" Indian and looking for somewhere where I can do my PhD in Computational Physics and also be taken seriously as a mathematician or physicist - and I'm a woman, too, so there's that additional obstacle. I'm not looking, as the French might say, to be treated 'like a man" or "like White," I just wonder why the colour of my skin keeps getting me asked "can you even DO Maths" sort of rubbish everywhere I go, in the USA, KKKanada and the UKKK.
El Salvador: looking for american job:
Any luck yet? I was considering one of the universities in El Salvador for its PhD program in Mathematical Computational Physics but I'm keeping my options open for other countries. From what I'm reading, Latin America isn't likely to treat a "brown person" with a Physics degree too much better than I've been treated in the USA or KKKanada.
Costa Rica: West coast v.s. East coast:
Obviously. The problem is that people in a position to answer your question honestly, either are not online, are not on THIS forum, or are otherwise too busy out trying to find jobs and make a living or whatever. I'm wondering this too. I'm not even "black," I'm "Red" Indian Aboriginal, but dark-skinned and keep getting CALLED "black" everywhere I go. My boyfriend (who is in medical school in Israel right now) is "white" looking Jewish, and I, too, would hesitate to even think about going anywhere where we'd be forced to live on opposite sides of the COUNTRY. Opposite sides of BROOKLYN was bad enough!
Too bad the "online" community as a whole, seems to be dominated by white people who, as you know, think that "it's not about race" or "it's not about the colour of your skin."
I'd LIKE to think that no Latin American country could possibly be as flat-out segregated as, say, Brooklyn. But then again, just because they are "mestizo" cultures whereby there's not a lot of "black" per se as much as there is a lot of "mixed" population which people will, for some reason wanting to believe that all the aboriginal "red" Indians have been "wiped out," as they tend to tell me to my face when they're calling me a liar about BEING one, insist is all white/black mix and NO "Red" Indian whatsoever.
Good luck with finding out anything definitive, online!
Ecuador: Black USA Family Looking For Help!!!!:
The DAKOTAS? Are you kidding?! He said he was BLACK. No place in the Dakotas will hire a black person - the Lakota Indians are darker than "black" and THEY can't get jobs to save their lives just because of their skin colour. The Dakotas are called "the Mississippi of the North" for a reason. I considered going out there with lawyers Without Borders to fight against the overwhelming racism they face from the white people there, and other people in Massachusetts told me that one. "The Mississippi of the North." Enough said.
Brazil: African Americans in Brazil:
You probably just have a different idea of what constitutes what you wanted to see. People in Latin America are all shades of brown and most of the countries are "mestizo" cultures, a concept which African Americans simply can't wrap their heads around. America (meaning, what the world calls just the United States) simply has no concept of there being anything between black, which they call "African" American regardless of where the brown skin actually comes from, and white, and to most Americans you have to be ALL-white to be considered white anyway. I mean, I had an Irish/Eskimo father and a Choctaw Indian/French Polynesian mother and AmeriKKKa calls me "black." Or "African" American of which I am NEITHER.
That being said, I myself am wondering where in the world I can go where I can get and keep a job in my fields - Math, Physics, and/or law - getting it past the interview and keeping it past racist sabotage on the job, somewhere where "brown" Amerindians can get jobs in our fields with "only" a Master's and Law degree. I've started applying for PhD programs in Computational Physics but except for one in Sao Paolo and one in El Salvador the rest of them are in Europe and I know I'd be treated like dirt by the societies there (if not on-campus then in the cities by people there). I'm wondering how the BROWN Amerindians fare in terms of professional education-required jobs in South America. I came across this because in my google search I found that after hours I had to put in "Brasil" and pretty much look up information country by country. The long, tedious, hard way.
It bothered me to read that black Brasilians are being "thrown out at the interview" when I did manage to find articles on discrimination in the job market in Brasil - I'm wondering about BROWN people, though. I've noticed that for the most part, better than their US or KKKanadian counterparts, Latin Americans seem slightly more able to tell mestiza, brown, Amerindian, from "black."
United Arab Emirates: African-American Female Seeking Dubai Employment:
If it seems like the salaries are "too low" you may not be accounting for the fact that jobs are scarce these days and your other options may be ZERO and still with a high cost of living to somehow manage. I mean, if you have brown skin in this world, these days, you don't have many other options knocking down your door! I'm looking at Hawaii and the South Pacific thinking the same thing - they may be the only places that will give me a job AT. ALL...with this skin colour and a bachelor's from MIT, a master's from Yale, a law degree and (well never mind the state of New York math teaching license because I'm fed up with the way people treat me about my competence in Math when I try to teach that, and I think I've wasted 35 years thinking I was going to be taken seriously as a Maths teacher anywhere, ever.)
This is now 2016 but all I have to say is that if you are a dark-skinned woman with multiple university degrees you may be limited to where they will TAKE you and hire you. We don't have the whole world as our oyster. WE can't pick and choose which countries will take us seriously in our field! It may be that only because it's the Middle East and most other people look like you anyway - that you should just take it ... unless you are implying that you have "better offers" in the US and they are not going to sabotage you out of the job once you get there and they see that your skin is brown? That's why I looked into Hawaii - I'm tired of the mainland US doing THAT one to me "from Sea to Shining Sea." Just sayin - for me, places where the job pay is not commensurate with the cost of living have been the only ways I have been able to GET and KEEP jobs in anything resembling my field whatsoever. Teaching in the San Francisco public schools comes to mind.
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