These are transitionary days, the lines are being blurred. I would say that the bracket of folks who talk about these issues are not the same as those doing something about it - its far easier for a middle-aged, entrenched worker to get on the Internet and complain about these issues than it is to see the guys who are crossing borders and working in a new culture to break down the typically insular nature of contemporary European life. You can see this internationalization factor at very specific strata - however, as usual, the squeaky wheel gets the grease ..