tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595261232094431570.post7155381014691934033..comments2023-09-22T22:58:26.044+05:00Comments on Petroimperialism: Immigration and Normative ScienceNauman Sadiqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428437331753429569noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595261232094431570.post-34889057581826025892023-08-31T04:52:04.453+05:002023-08-31T04:52:04.453+05:00'When we uproot a flowering plant...'
If y...'When we uproot a flowering plant...'<br />If you have studied biology, you will know that a flower requires nutrients and a nurturing environment to prosper, much like people do. You are correct in that one regard.<br /><br />But where you go tremendously wrong is in you saying that, like how a flower cannot survive in a different environment, sometimes human beings can't as well. It reveals the fundamental truth you have been ignorant of in your entire article. Human beings are not born different. Someone born in the West still had to adapt to the West as much as a migrant who was not born there; one just does it earlier than the other. There are no different 'species' of human beings. We are all the same, with the same love and same fear and same tenacity and same bravery and same courage. The reason why we, and not some other ferocious animal has migrated across and colonised this Earth is solely because of our remarkable ability to adapt and change in the face of adversity, unlike any other creature. A desert flower from Australia may never become a towering alpine oak in Sweden, but a little girl from Pakistan may become a formidable advocate for global education for girls in Britain. <br /><br />You say migrants are to 'understand that migration is not the natural order of societies.' And you contradict yourself right there. Do you know how societieS, plural, with an S, ever came about? Because humans migrated, spread out into the world, changing and adapting until there was a community in every continent and country. Migration was, is and always will be an integral aspect of the human condition. If you agree that to be human is to survive, then you agree that to be human is to migrate. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595261232094431570.post-6429441419536470992023-08-31T04:51:29.641+05:002023-08-31T04:51:29.641+05:00You say that migrants should understand that they ...You say that migrants should understand that they are 'not suitable' to the new environment. Speak for yourself. Has not this entire Earth been created by God for Man to inhabit for the short period that is his life? Since when did He create each land with a physical label on it that ordained by his divine law which people should live where? The only labels created are by Man. Were not the colonisers of every land not part of 'the natural order' of that place when they arrived? And the natives, when they arrived before? They were all migrants, as are we. What is this 'natural order' you speak of? It is not natural. It is created by man and a structure that is being dismantled as we speak. <br /><br />And no, the migrants are not 'bending over backwards' for the West to move out of their own spaces and give up their 'room', so to speak. They are asking for a chance to work hard and be given a chance in return, a chance to better their lives, which, as you mistakenly seem to think, does not come at the EXPENSE of those already living in the West. In fact, migrant workers benefit so much, and are not a drain on the society they have moved to inhabit, as you mistakenly think they are. The enormous migrant communities here in Australia are thriving and who are respected doctors, lawyers and business owners proves you wrong. Why should the 'incentive' to migrate be taken away, when these amazing individuals forward human society and add so much value to it, more than they would have done had they stayed where they were born where it might have been dangerous?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595261232094431570.post-58330308510342414592023-08-31T04:51:08.277+05:002023-08-31T04:51:08.277+05:00Really? Especially you, from Pakistan? Have you se...Really? Especially you, from Pakistan? Have you seen your country lately?<br /><br />Besides, if a human being never sacrificed for another human being, never helped or had kindness or collaborated or moved aside or even lifted a finger, you would not be here and neither would I. What do you even mean by 'non-communal'? You do realise that communities are not limited to the West, that the concept of community is universal, like the act of migration? That human beings are never going to be 'individual', and that we are a social species, and will never be content in solitude? That communities are made up of all the kindness and bond between individuals who prop each other up, and that without communities and diverse individuals in those communities, society would fail? That humanity would fail?<br /><br />If we drove out and neglected and 'discouraged' and 'minimised incentive', we leave our fellow people to toil away or die of war, hunger or famine. Yes, there is a gross wealth disparity across the globe, but it will be eons before countries come together and pool together the resources to spread equally across the world. It will never happen. The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. It is hilarious to me that rather than let people migrate and work hard and start better lives, you want to 'revamp the global economic order.' Slow down, buddy. Think of realistic solutions, not imaginary fanciful ones. Do you imagine yourself as the 'Treasurer' of this new global economy perhaps, confining every man, woman and child who ever had a dream to what you determine is their limit? What you determine is their home? And where, might I ask, will you procure these absurd amounts of money you propose to use in order to singlehandedly better the migrant's original countries so that they will not want to leave? From the West? Wait, I forgot, you do not 'bend over backwards' and ask them for anything. You simply stay put and wallow in the fact that you can't migrate because it's not part of your 'natural order'. You simply confine yourself to your fate. That must be exciting. I can tell you've never experienced desperation, when you sit up there on your throne and tell people not to leave, its not in their 'natural order' as their families are bombed out of their homes. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595261232094431570.post-13544743343341660922023-08-31T04:50:14.936+05:002023-08-31T04:50:14.936+05:00I agree with the fact that wealth disparity has to...I agree with the fact that wealth disparity has to be dealt with, on some scale. However, to aim to reduce migration and limit it is what will breed dangerous problems. To set people apart and keep everyone to themselves creates an atmosphere and mindset of 'othering' in people where they will go from being politely amused by anything different to what they know, to becoming openly hostile. Keeping minorities to themselves and separating groups of people as you suggest has always led to enormous injustice and loss of life. The apartheid of South Africa, the segregation in America, the partition of India and the Holocaust come to mind. When we breed dangerous narratives that everyone should stay where he or she was born and that that is the only place they will ever truly belong to, we are openly promoting ignorance, which was and always will be the start of any tragedy. To say that migrants shouldn't be allowed as they wouldn't 'adapt' well to a new society goes against everything humanity began upon and all the history we have accrued since. The true essence of humanity is their ability to strive in the face of a challenge, to adapt, to survive. Didn't the survivors of every war have to migrate, adapt, survive? Didn't the colonisers migrate to new places in their ships, and adapt to a foreign land? The natives they found; did they not migrate there too on canoes, and adapt? Adam, who fell from Heaven, the first man, did he not migrate? From Heaven to Earth? Did he not adapt? What would've become of you, of me, of us if he didn't migrate and adapt? We would've remained prophecies unfulfilled, remained in thought of the universe. <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com