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The Norwegian government granted Ukranian refugees the ability to work. There isn't really anything a job board can do about it.

I vouched for your comment because even though I think it is misguided, it not merit getting flagged.

What a great false equivalence. Different countries, different cultures, different circumstances.

Don’t try to spin the Ukrainian refugee response as racism because you perceive it as such.

It's not really up to individual people in Norway, but policy.

Germany did also eventually allow refugees that came during the 2015 wave to work, but it took substantially longer. Quite a few of them are in tech now as well.

While it's not nice, it's pretty obvious why European countries are happier to welcome the easily integrated white christian European Ukrainians than the significantly more difficult to integrate Middle Eastern refugees.

I think it's a mistake to narrow it down to religion.

Countries with high corruption have a different social contract, and it takes time for people to internalise how things are done 'over here'.

According to the Council of Europe, Ukraine is the most corrupt country on the continent after Russia.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/corruption/completed-projects/enp...

Ukraine is a highly corrupt country. The worst in Europe. It is 122nd out of 180 countries, Norway is placed 4th. So that's probably not a criterium they used.

Ukraine is (was?) the most corrupt country in Europe. It's got nothing to do with that.

I am not sure the argument for corruption adds up, given Ukraine's global corruption perception index scores are comparable to developing nations in Africa and Asia.

I see this statement a lot, but I am yet to see it substantiated. My home country hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees[1] however, speaking anecdotally, integrating people is difficult despite common ethnicities, languages, religions and cultures.

[1] https://www.unhcr.org/ke/figures-at-a-glance

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