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That is quite amazing to learn. How are the farmers not granted "citizenship" as it were, in their own country once they move to another part of it and presumab

• endersshadow 15y ago
  I think the thing to note here is that China is most definitely not like America. I think the common practice in the west is to think of China as an Asian version of a first world country, with a government that just censors things. That's not the case--China has an oppressive government. While they've been opening up commerce in the last few decades, that doesn't mean that they've adopted the western sense of freedom. There are a whole host of reasons why this is the case, but it's very important to note that while China is very visible in the world arena, it is still a developing nation.
• w1ntermute 15y ago
  The same thing was happening just 80 years ago in our own country: > California was emphatically not the promised land of the migrants' dreams. Although the weather was comparatively balmy and farmers' fields were bountiful with produce, Californians also felt the effects of the Depression. Local and state infrastructures were already overburdened, and the steady stream of newly arriving migrants was more than the system could bear. After struggling to make it to California, many found themselves turned away at its borders. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html