colonial migration to the motherland
When the many colonies and dominions achieved independence from European powers last century, there started a massive wave of migration from the colonies towards the motherland in those colonies where dual citizenship was granted .
This new wave of migration from the colonies - in effect, immigration to the European motherlands - was remarkable in that it was comprised largely of the formerly subject non-white populations wanting to live in the land of the people who had virtually, if not actually, enslaved them. Why?
Generally, when independence was granted to the colonies, the colonial populations experienced a split between those who identified strongly with the western power representing the mother nation, and those who didn't.
For many among the formerly subject non-white populations - mostly army personnel and petty public servants who had served under their colonial masters, but also half-castes who faced ostracism from their own race - citizenship of the mother nation was seen as a right. These people, like their old colonial masters, saw their own people as being inferior to them!
For some, emigration to Europe was a matter of life or death. For instance, when de Gaulle granted Algeria independence after he came to power in 1959, Algerians who had worked for the French who didn't emigrate were unexpectedly slaughtered.
For others, of course, dual citizenship was simply a passport to lead a work-free life at the expense of the welfare system of the mother nation.
This granting of citizenship to non-white populations marked the end of traditional western civilization and heralded the birth of a new multi-racial and multi-cultural civilization - a way of living that is looked upon with utter amazement by those civilizations that prize their cultural and ethnic roots.
A Japanese, for instance, might wonder why black Africans would want to leave the warm climate of their homelands and the warm bosom of their family and people in order to live in a cold and often miserably inhospitable place like Europe full of white people who don't particularly like them.
Similarly, a Japanese might wonder why Europe allows this to happen!
It is not as if Europe is any more egalitarian - or offering more opportunities - than the former colonies.
Like America, Europe suffers from the myth of being wealthy - of having streets paved with gold - when, in fact, it has as much if not more poverty than third-world nations. It is just not as noticeable. It is relative.
This new wave of migration from the colonies - in effect, immigration to the European motherlands - was remarkable in that it was comprised largely of the formerly subject non-white populations wanting to live in the land of the people who had virtually, if not actually, enslaved them. Why?
Generally, when independence was granted to the colonies, the colonial populations experienced a split between those who identified strongly with the western power representing the mother nation, and those who didn't.
For many among the formerly subject non-white populations - mostly army personnel and petty public servants who had served under their colonial masters, but also half-castes who faced ostracism from their own race - citizenship of the mother nation was seen as a right. These people, like their old colonial masters, saw their own people as being inferior to them!
For some, emigration to Europe was a matter of life or death. For instance, when de Gaulle granted Algeria independence after he came to power in 1959, Algerians who had worked for the French who didn't emigrate were unexpectedly slaughtered.
For others, of course, dual citizenship was simply a passport to lead a work-free life at the expense of the welfare system of the mother nation.
This granting of citizenship to non-white populations marked the end of traditional western civilization and heralded the birth of a new multi-racial and multi-cultural civilization - a way of living that is looked upon with utter amazement by those civilizations that prize their cultural and ethnic roots.
A Japanese, for instance, might wonder why black Africans would want to leave the warm climate of their homelands and the warm bosom of their family and people in order to live in a cold and often miserably inhospitable place like Europe full of white people who don't particularly like them.
Similarly, a Japanese might wonder why Europe allows this to happen!
It is not as if Europe is any more egalitarian - or offering more opportunities - than the former colonies.
Like America, Europe suffers from the myth of being wealthy - of having streets paved with gold - when, in fact, it has as much if not more poverty than third-world nations. It is just not as noticeable. It is relative.
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