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> Would it be sensible to treat Europe as one country Why would it? Europe isn't a country. India and China are countries. I fail to see your point. It's obvio
by Veen 5y ago
> Would it be sensible to treat Europe as one country
Why would it? Europe isn't a country. India and China are countries. I fail to see your point. It's obviously more diverse if Chinese, Indians, Europeans, South Americans, Africans etc have a more or less equal chance, and that's what the current rules are supposed to provide.
> It would be a first-come-first-served system
So you think immigration status should be determined by whether someone gets their forms in on the 1st of January or not? I'm not sure that's entirely practical or fair. Perhaps a lottery would be more suitable.
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- triceratops 5y ago> Europe isn't a country. India and China are countries. I fail to see your point The point was in the rest of my comment. "Country" doesn't imply a homogenous, non-diverse group of people. And "diversity" is the purported reason for country-of-birth caps. > It's obviously more diverse if Chinese, Indians, Europeans, South Americans, Africans You said China and India are countries, then went on to compare them to continents. Surely you see the fallacy here. > someone gets their forms in on the 1st of January or not? I didn't say anything about the 1st of January (or any other date). "First-come-first-served" means applications are treated on their merits and processed in the order they arrived. If two people with the same application, but different country of birth, apply at the same time, they should have roughly same result in the same amount of time. That's not the case today. And I'm struggling to understand how a single queue is "unfair".
- monocasa 5y agoFor immigration purposes, since the EU is one open territory, it absolutely could make sense to treat it as a single entity if you buy into the base ideas here behind the caps.