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America didn't used to be the country that offered those opportunities. Yet people built it and made it that way. Nothing is static people csn change anything
by the_real_cher 2y ago
America didn't used to be the country that offered those opportunities.
Yet people built it and made it that way.
Nothing is static people csn change anything
These people need to do that in their own countries.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThe people that built it and made it that way in America were all immigrants.
- the_real_cher 2y agoI didn't know Bell labs employees Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were all immigrants
- ivewonyoung 2y agoSteve Jobs' father and grandparents were Syrian.
- decremental 2y ago[dead]
- surgical_fire 2y agoKind of ironic, considering the whole original population of America (the whole continent) was mostly replaced by immigrants, starting some time after 1492 AD.
- the_real_cher 2y agowell in that context they were conquerors
- surgical_fire 2y agoColonizers rather than conquerors. Colonizers are effectively migrants, by the very definition of the word.
- defrost 2y agoThe British India Company colonisation of India was institutional colonisation. The company remained for many generations but most (not all) individual British people stationed themselves in India and retired 'home' to England where to whence the money flowed. Many European countries regarded their "colonies" as places to exploit for resources, places to be travelled to for work for many years, places they didn't regard as 'home'. There's more to "colonisation" than just simple migration. Even in Australia the early colonisation was by settler families that were part of larger stay at home families, the black sheep, wayward sons, and fortune seeking adventurers .. in Australia convicts and servant families remained, ultimately a good proportion of the underwritten (from home) settlers stayed .. but initially at least many heads of these families "returned home" to England. In a similar manner modern USofA has many institutional "colonies" around the globe, bases they've established and never left, these rarely have permanently settled multi generational families.
- the_real_cher 2y agoand those countries that were colonized by Western Civilization countries are very lucky. they are typically the top performing GDP countries of their region with some of the best quality of life for their citizens
- surgical_fire 2y agoOh yes. Get the list of countries colonized by the awesome Western Civilization. You will be surprised to learn the world is a lot larger than US and Canada.
- the_real_cher 2y agoJust look at African or South American countries by GDP and see which ones are at the top of the list
- pacerier 2y ago> didn't used to be That's false. By definition none would have come if there wasn't opportunity. You don't need to be a geography student to see that it wasn't just irreligious opportunity.
- the_real_cher 2y agodo you think opportunity just magically springs up in places or do you think people make it?
- cudgy 2y agoBoth
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoPeople who are looking for opportunity see a place where they could make it.
- pacerier 2y agoAs stated, the geography of north America provides the opportunity, before there were Americans. Gold rush and stuff is just a bonus, the big money is in cattle and agriculture.