Global Migration Patterns

voxxe (51)in #migration • 7 years ago

http://metrocosm.com/global-immigration-map/
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By definition, if you move to a country, it implies you think your new country is better than where you started. Additionally, if a country has a high immigration rate it implies low native preference. Therefore, the English speaking countries where the populations are still majority British/European in heritage have both the least preference for their exiting populations and are considered the best countries in the world. A similar situation is also found in other European heritage countries such as Sweden. Is the negative native preference (anti-racism/anti-nationalism) the reason these countries are considered the best in the world by migrants voting with their feet? Possibly. It is certainly not the geography. Africa, when it comes to natural resources, is the wealthiest continent on Earth. Haiti is a warm tropical country that could grow high value crops year round and have a significant resort industry. The same is true of Venezuela. Japan has few natural resources, was devastated attempting to build an Empire, and yet the country is the 3rd largest economy on Earth...
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What explains these anomalies is government policy and human resources. Human resources can be broken down to quantity, and quality. Government policy is more complex. Decolonization was a result of a belief in ethnic-nationalist self-determination, and democracy. Territories around the world voted for independence from European Empires, and more often that not, independence was granted without bloodshed. Now the peoples of the same former territories are found moving out of the lands that they are accustomed, to European lands to live under the same European rule they so despised in their homelands. This in turn denies the European peoples their right to the same ethnic-nationalist self-determination they granted to their former subjects. What determines membership of an ethnic group? It depends on the group you are talking about, but it is nearly always defined by, from the greatest to least importance, blood relations (genetics), religion, and marriage.
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TL;DR logically you can either support ethnic-nationalism OR imperialism and colonization. Pick one. That said, this is only logical if you value truth and fairness, and not simply advantage. Perhaps Britain losing the world is the price paid for this idealism. Sweet dreams~