【英语时差8,16】外籍看护需要关注

 The Taiwan Association of Family Caregivers reports that an eye-popping 160,000 among our sick and elderly benefit from the attention of foreign caregivers working in our homes.

Some political leaders are calling for an exclusion¹ of foreign workers from long-term home care service. More than a few employers of foreign caregivers are shaking their heads in dismay. Caregivers from Taiwan reportedly demand three times the amount of money as do their foreign counterparts.

Treatment of workers from the Philippines, Vietnam, and other lands is an issue that only a few of my students are willing to discuss with me.

Apparently² unaware³ of the hard-heartedness she was pointing to, one of my students said that a foreign caregiver had suddenly disappeared from her house. "We don't know how she did it, but she discovered where my mother hid her passport, and she took it and ran away."If you stole my passport, I'd want to run away from you too. But also: If the employer was treating the employee properly, why hold and hide the passport?

Whenever we treat workers (foreign or local) in ways we ourselves don't want to be treated, we bring shame upon ourselves and our country. Plenty of abuse happens in the United States. I hate to see it happening here, too.

1 exclusion   

n.拒绝，排除，排斥，远足，远途旅行

参考例句：

• Don't revise a few topics to the exclusion of all others.不要修改少数论题以致排除所有其他的。
• He plays golf to the exclusion of all other sports.他专打高尔夫球，其他运动一概不参加。

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 unaware   

a.不知道的，未意识到的

参考例句：

• They were unaware that war was near. 他们不知道战争即将爆发。
• I was unaware of the man's presence. 我没有察觉到那人在场。