The Mexican Revival of Small-Town America

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2. There's a prescribed response.

"They should pay a living wage, or a wage high enough to attract workers."

You know that problem with the Macedonia Republic not being admitted to the EU because Greece pitches a fit at the country's name? Makedonskata respublika?

During the first great migration that we know of, the Volkswanderung in the 7th and 8th century, not only did the Goths sack Rome and establish a kingdom in Spain (later overthrown by the Muslim invasion and oppression of the then-indigenous), but the Byzantine records show that the provinces of Dacia down through to the Greek islands were overrun by Slavic "invaders," now classed "economic migrants". It completely changed the ethnic nature of the Balkans. The Balkans were Thracian (an ethnonym claimed by the Albanians, not with complete fidelity to historical truth but with an eye to convincing the weak of mind); there were Dacians, already oppressed by Roman settlers. It produced a change in the base DNA of the Greek population, added hundreds of Slavic loanwords to modern Greek, and may well have helped trigger a Sprachbund in the area.

The Byzantines were team-loyal. They disliked invaders who would change their ethnic makeup, culture, government, and language.