Tag: emigration
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Death in their country or on the boat?
For millions of people, the choice is brutal and final. Stay in their homeland and die slowly, or risk dying quickly at sea. There is no safety net. There is no third way. They live in countries where food is scarce, wages are nonexistent, health care is a fantasy, and the future is a blank…
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On American exceptionalism and how people are attracted to it
No country can claim that it is exceptional, as the self-fulfilling prophecy never materializes. American exceptionalism isn’t different at all. This article aims at the evolutionary roots behind the pillars the U.S. builds its reputation on. It also examines the historic desire to immigrate to the US. There may be, of course, rational reasons, why…
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Acting like animals: migrating, traveling, and nomadism
Even if genetics, evolutionary biology, mathematics, physics, astrophysics, and chemistry didn’t exist and evolutionary psychology would have existed, our belief in God would be shaken, because people act like animals, thus God really did not want people to be animals. This knowledge goes well with migrating, traveling, and nomadism. Arnold Schwarzenegger said: “Everything I have,…
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The 300 million France, the 150 million Britain. 200 million Russia. Maybe
First of all, I must admit this article is rather speculative than something serious. So please be careful with your conclusions. When having been exposed to what then formal-education system called history lessons I have had never understood why Napoleon could have had waged wars with nearly everybody. And because history lessons should be about…