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Re:North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient... by esrauch on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:00AM (#25556813)
I'm not so sure about the Canada parallel: Canada has GDP per capita closer to the US, Latvia is much lower (but still much higher than Latin America and China so I'm not sure what other case would be similar).
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Re:North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient... by obventio56 on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:12AM (#25556882)
I think they meant Latvians here are being portrayed as friendly or harmless like Canadians often are as well — not so much a reference to standard of living.
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Re:North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient... by Spooky23 on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:02PM (#25560812)
Sorry I was being a little tongue in cheek there!

End of the day, Latvia is exotic but also harmless.

It’s really weird to put in a press release that two contractors were hired and stress the Latvia angle. Me being the cynic I am about such matters assume that it’s a distraction from an actual story!

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