barneystinson69 said:
My point is on white guilt. And my problem with refugee's today is that many are there for economical reasons. Turkey is reasonably safe, and most of the middle east is fine as well. Many of these refugee's also weren't even syrian (only 40% where). And most of syria is reasonably safe enough to stay. My father would've been killed if he stayed in iran, and he actually applied for asylum. |
Why did he apply in Canada? Surely there was a country between Canada and Iran where he could have immigrated too? Why not another country in the Middle East? Did he have some special talent for ice hockey? What if someone said back then "no, we don't want him, we have enough problems here as is, he should go to some neighboring Middle Eastern country?" and I'm sure there were Canadians who would say that back then.
There's always going to be a segement of the population that's hostile to immigrants. Even in the US when the immigrants were all Europeans (mostly), people treated the Irish and Italians like second class citizens and looked down on them.
People in Europe also look down upon Eastern Europeans like Hungarians and Polish and Ukrianians that come over too.
Sadly this is probably a hardwiring for some people dating back to the days where we lived in tribes. Encountering someone from outside the tribe was usually met with hostility.
It's going to be a challenge for humanity because quite frankly we don't live in the 18th century anymore where you could block yourself out from the rest of the world. We have easy mass travel, global connectivity because the internet, and the truth is borders in the future are not going to mean what they did in the past, that's just the simple reality. The world of 2097 is not going to be the same as 1997, but 1997 is not the same as 1897. Things change.
