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I'd argue that is also an oversimplification to one region. I grew up in an eastern EU country, and I worked hard to get a good education so I can get a job that is more on the side of R&D and making new things. But then western EU companies bought up everything that does stuff like that, laid off all the engineers and only left menial manufacturing jobs in the country.
And when I then grab my things and move over to their countries where those jobs went, you know, we all signed "freedom of movement of people and capital", people there are complaining that the best paying jobs are not in their local language but in English now. And then that they are indignant that they have to do at least a fraction of what I needed to do, like be comfortable using 2-3 languages professionally, with a foreign one being the default. And that I can pay more for an apartment than them or their kids, driving up prices. Like I want to pay that much money.
So yeah, I love to live in a country that has people call me names instead of my own, but this is globalisation.