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I'm wondering what role brain-drain plays in this catastrophe. Who wants to live at the border of chaos? Smart and open-minded people emigrate to Central/Northe
by mannigfaltig 9y ago
I'm wondering what role brain-drain plays in this catastrophe. Who wants to live at the border of chaos? Smart and open-minded people emigrate to Central/Northern Europe, US/Canada or Australia to live a much safer and fulfilling life. What remains is the conservative personality type (high dutifulness, low openness to experience, tight integration in communities), who is much more likely to reject democratic ideals and to accept theocratic dictatorships.
One might conclude that the only way to reliably stabilize such regions is to massively incentivize them for the personality types that have emigrated over the course of the past decades or centuries, even.
- rjsw 9y agoI have wondered whether this has happened to Poland too.
- fishnchips 9y agoNot likely. Polish communities abroad tend to vote for right wing radicals more often than the society back home. Surprisingly this is not only the case of "old" immigration in the US but also post-2004 ones in the EU.
- thriftwy 9y agoI'm not sure that either refugees or guest workers are "smart and open-minded" variety, not the conservative one. Europe might be importing enough conservative types to repeat this stunt in a few decades.
- ido 9y agoTurkish immigrants to the US were/are generally the elite. Not every place is Germany.