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It’s unclear to me why Bangladeshis would migrate to China as opposed to India or Pakistan.
by jonathankoren 8y ago
It’s unclear to me why Bangladeshis would migrate to China as opposed to India or Pakistan.
- Mikeb85 8y agoThey've already tried to annex a part of Myanmar...
- imtringued 8y agoProbably because china has 50 million empty apartments. 3 People per apartment should be enough to let all of Bangladesh escape (they'll need it).
- jonathankoren 8y agoCountries aren't fungible commodities. The problem isn't if there's a spare bedroom, it's the political, social, and economic forces. And since we're talking about mass migration, we also have to talk about geography. Think about it. In order to get to China, you have to cross the Himalayas, probably on foot. Then once you're there, you have to enter an economy (perhaps clandestinely) where you can't speak the language, have no large population of people that speak your language, have no common social ties, and if that wasn't enough challenges, the country is famous for clamping down hard on internal economic migration (i.e. the hukou system), and has no history of foreign immigration since... ever? It's just not plausible. You can walk to India. You can walk to Pakistan. There are cultural ties to Pakistan. If you want to go someplace outside of South Asia, Kuwait and the other Gulf States have extensive Bangladeshi expat communities, due to the number of migrants workers. (Hell, 70% of Kuwait's population isn't Kuwaiti[0].) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kuwait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kuwait