Tag: immigration
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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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American Dream dissected
The American Dream is not about freedom, fairness, or moral brilliance. It is about evolutionary instinct. More precisely, it is about joining the most dominant, well-fed, well-armed, and globally influential tribe in the modern human ecosystem. From an evolutionary standpoint, people do not migrate toward justice—they migrate toward dominance. The American Dream is not a…
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Immigration: Not just a change of address
Migration often begins with hope. A better life. More security. Greater opportunity. But beneath these practical dreams hides a deeper shift—one that is cultural, moral, and psychological. When non-Western people migrate to the West, they are not only entering new borders. They are entering a new system of values. Immigration involves significant obstacles. What once…
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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,…