Globalization Creates Migration from Third World

Selina is married with three children and is a loving Christian woman who applauds globalization for raising the standard of living in third-world nations but is dismayed by its effects on the movement of people away from those nations towards her back yard.

"Yes," laughs Selina, "I suppose I am one of those ridiculous NIMBY people but I can't understand why these people want to come here when the global powers have done so much to improve living conditions in their own lands."

"Theoretically, globalization helps third-world nations by providing work for populations that are unemployed and living in poverty," says Selina, "but I can also see how it hinders third-world nations by exporting western values that, in turn, create jealousy or antagonize the purists in those nations."

"How often do we hear about western trained doctors and other professionals who, once qualified at our expense, don't want to stay in their country of origin to help their own people?" sighs Selina. "And how often do we hear about young people from third-world countries who, given a taste of western education and culture, will do whatever it takes to come here and enjoy the real thing? And how often do we hear about the religious fanatics, the purists, in third-world countries cracking down on young people who adopt western values?"

"By committing acts of terror against the West, as well as against their own people who adopt western values," says Selina, "the fanatics are deliberately or otherwise pushing the global powers into becoming more controlling."

"As I see it, the global powers moved into the third-world to help the people - to educate them, to provide them with work and to improve their health and living conditions," says Selina, "but it has all blown up in our faces because once raised to a higher level of existence these people don't want to stay in the third-world. They want to come here."

"And when you're being persecuted by your own people for adopting western values why wouldn't they want to beg for refuge status in our country?"

"Unfortunately, globalization may have started out as a good thing, but the fanatics in the third-world have turned it into a monster," sighs Selina. "The more the fanatics persecute their people and try to push the global powers out, the more the global powers have to defend themselves and in doing so the civilian populations of third-world nations are suffering a terrible existence."

"Given this scenario, those with the qualifications and money to emigrate to the west are doing so in droves," says Selina, "and those who don't are leaving in ever increasing droves as refugees in boats or on foot. It is a human tragedy."

"And while the global powers are spreading democracy, Christianity, jobs and western values to the rest of the world," sighs Selina, "nobody seems to notice that the rest of the world is now on our doorstep!"

"I'd hate to see the global powers stop doing their good work in the third world," says Selina, "but if all this good work is just creating a whole lot of economic immigrants and desperate refugees wanting to live in my backyard then I wish it would stop."

"All globalization seems to be achieving is a movement of people from the third-world towards the West," says Selina, "and this was not its intention.?"

"I'd like to see all those people we trained as doctors and lawyers and other professionals returned to their own countries to help their own people," says Selina. "It is immoral that they turn their backs on their own people."

"No wonder the fanatics are railing against the global powers. Wouldn't you if the cream of your people emigrated, indicating that your culture is not good enough for them?"