Oddbean

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 Something something "why don't you do this Ukranians, but to Africans/Arabs/Middle Easterners/Latin Americans".

FWIW, the US goes the closest to this route in terms of partial imprisonment, and people still *try* to come here in the hopes that they'll find work because earning first world money is better than nothing. And nobody wants the optics of dead people in the sea in sunken ships or coated in blood at the frontiers.

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 And I'm *very* hazy about hyping up the idea of killing these people because I look like a foreigner, and the people who are generally anti-immigrant are also anti-*me*.

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 Somebody will argue that it's morally wrong to make such a distinction between two suffering groups.

FWIW, it's only North America, Europe, and Australia that have the attempted financial capacity to absorb some immigrants. The Middle East is basically only workable with oil and few citizens, South America isn't that rich and the same could be said for most of Asia.

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 FWIW, I read a story about Nigerians that ended up in Brazil because the boat they were using as their escape method ended up there instead of the US as would have preferred. Despite being more organized than back home, most longed for the States. The happiest, IIRC, was a mom with kids who seemed somewhat content about being somewhere *better* than home. The men wanted the US.

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 I suspect this is one of those topics where we'll probably never agree. :-/

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 Put it this way, immigration from the rest of the world doesn't make me feel less foreign per se because it doesn't make me *white*. It's not the presence of other people, but the ability to be seen as equivalent to the middle class natives with no negative stereotypes.