Multinational Companies to Hire Refugees

Vocabulary Questions:

1.Define “homeland”here, “Many people are fleeing wars or feel unsafe in their homeland.” Use this word in your own sentence.

Homeland means the region or country in which a person was born and has grown up.

Sentence –> Many people from underdeveloped countries leave their homeland looking for a better future

2.What does “refugee” mean, “Multinational companies will give jobs to 250,000 refugees.”? Use this word in your own sentence.

Refugee means a person who has left his or her own country due to difficulties and goes to another country with better conditions and opportunities where he or she want to restart his or her life.

Sentence –> It is very hard to be a refugee, because you have to leave your country with no belongings and no choice in many cases, and you also have to adapt to a new country, language, culture and so on.

3.What does ”diversity” mean, “It said refugees would add diversity and make the company stronger.”? Use this word in your own sentence.

Diversity means plurality. People that comes from another country, from a different culture has different ways of thinking and approaching to the same problem.

Sentence –> I believe that traveling is a good way to get to know the diversity of cultures and people that exits around the world and open your mind.

Discussion Questions:

1.Why do refugees leave their country?

I think that refugees leave their country to protect their own life. This happens because their country is involved in a war (internal or with another country) or also because their country is a really unsafe place for living even without a war, like women in muslim countries.

2.What is your opinion on multinational companies hiring refugees?

I consider that this is a good initiative from multinational companies for helping people with a hard situation and a really good way to use their power and worlwide scope.

3.What are other ways to help refugees?

I consider that there are lot of ways for helping refugees. First of all, they arrive to a new country with no belongings, so the first initiative could be to have temporary accommodation facilities in the countries of arrival. Another way of helping refugees, that its essential for their integration, is to teach them the language and culture of the new country, so they can find a job, study and so on.

Another good initiative could be to create support groups, where they could share their traumatic experiences running away from a war and help each other to overcome these experiences.

4.Do you agree or disagree that “refugees would add diversity to its workforce and would make the company stronger.”?

I agree with this statement, since I consider that people that has had a different education, culture and environment will have different ways of thinking and approaching to the same problem which in many cases could be very helpful for the company.

5.Share your opinion on this, “Diversity brings creativity and different points of view.”.

I fully agree with this statement as I stated in the previous question. This diversity provides different points of view which in many cases will help to find better or at least different solutions for similar issues.