Most of the flood of migrants we are experiencing come from third world countries. Why is this and why now? It’s necessary to understand what they are fleeing from to see why.
It’s now possible for tourists to reach any part of the globe. I have travelled to many third world countries; they are always interesting and, apart from the cost of getting there, are cheap. You may as well stay for some time once there. In the cities accommodation can be had for a couple of pounds and meals for less than that. “Lonely Planet” guide or similar provides the inside knowledge. The reason we travel to these places is because my wife is a parrot nut, she wants to see them in the wild.
On arrival, we then proceed to the more remote places where wild parrots live, usually jungle/rain forest and usually by riverboat. There’s always someone ready to take you to any place you want to go for very little money. These tales of extreme difficulty of access put about by BBC TV crews are lies. Sometimes it’s hard to avoid being taken, people are waiting for you when you get off the train/bus eager to take you on an “eco tour”.
Wherever you go, tourists have been there before you and tourism invariably destroys what it comes to see, in this case the societies in these remote areas. The locals have an intense interest in their visitors, if you sit in what passes for a bar, you are quite likely to be accosted and cross-questioned as to where you come from and what it’s like there. These days, even in remote places, the local bar might well have an internet satellite connection (to encourage the drinkers) so all traveller’s tales can now be verified.
This leads to dissatisfaction. Especially when they see the tourist bling, (cameras, money, fancy clothes etc.) Many of these remote villages have now been totally deserted by the young who have made the pilgrimage to local towns in the expectation of wealth. This rarely works out, they have little education, few skills and no contacts; a life of crime is a more likely outcome. Those left behind (the aged) meanwhile try to keep going in ever greater hardship, poverty and even starvation as most of these places run on a peasant style, agricultural, subsistence economy, that is, backbreaking labour.
Visiting these places for a week or so is very interesting. However, the filth, food, insects, illness, heat/cold/humidity, start to get you down after a while. There’s nothing attractive about poverty. If you live in one of these places, there’s nothing you can do about it, money, education and lack of contacts being the obstacles. (Everything in these countries runs on graft, idleness, nepotism and a large dollop of incompetence in my experience.) The rich minority don’t give a monkeys about the poor. There is no middle class in most third world countries. 99% of the people are poor. The 1% wealthy are intent on maintaining the status quo. The government/police/military exist to enforce this. Interestingly, in the “revolutionary” societies, the poor only change one set of masters for masters even worse.
A side issue is language. If you are a Brit, and want to learn a language, the problem is which one. Foreigners have no such problem, it’s English. The locals are keen to improve their English, another reason to talk to you. (This is the reason for the Calais encampment, they speak English not French.) The prettier ones (male and female) hang about tourist areas, hoping to entrap a Westerner into taking them back home. Surprisingly often, it works, sometimes well.
Women have a tough time. In many places, they do all the work. In some societies, you can buy a woman at the local market. They stand around in groups, togged out in their Sunday best. The last proposition I received was in Papua New Guinea where a pretty, well educated, trained and subservient girl costs around £800. (Euphemistically called “bride price”). Guaranteed to get pregnant in a year or money back! How well this works, I have no idea but the girls are eager to be bought by a Westerner, anticipating a life of wealth and ease. At no time before have I been surrounded by pretty girls so willing! On the other hand, they are virtually all skilled knife fighters (for self-protection.) In PNG you can have as many women as you can afford. Anything they might earn becomes yours. Educated women cost more because they can earn more. The men sit about in the streets and watch the world go by. (When they are not fighting that is)
In case you don’t believe me:-
See here and here.
The cities are even worse. The rich live in fortified buildings, often with private security. Such is the crime it’s not wise to be out at a night especially on foot. Even some of the taxis are cruising the streets looking for people to rob or kidnap. There’s a new scam being developed on every visit.
Nowadays the great beacon for migrants is travel to the first world as we all know. Only the relatively wealthy, ambitious, criminal or desperate can make this journey. The reason they come now in such numbers is the internet. The really wealthy have no incentive to travel, they would be poor when they arrived in the first world.
The first world does not want these economic migrants, these people have no education, never mind useful skills and as previously noted, are more likely to end up in crime. We have plenty of our own people similarly equipped, the only difference being a willingness to work. Any who do make it to the West are hardly likely to tell folks back home that they’ve made a big mistake, more likely to claim success regardless of the truth.
Some, of course, are fleeing from war. We should accommodate these on the strict understanding that they return home when it’s safe to do so. And we should only take families, not draft dodgers.
(Photo Credit: Harold Armitage.)
It is wrong to just look at these poor people and consider them in terms of a threat to our comfortable lives.
One should be very careful of getting on a bandwagon of scorn for third world people who want to improve their lives.
Strong and secure borders, yes.
But trade, show encouragement, example, do something that is useful to them and support projects, so that they can enjoy the wonderful countries they live in. The people who live in third world countries are different they are not stupid. With their ‘western friends’ giving them corrupting money, impositions and condescension they certainly don’t need any enemies.
Kim – that sort of hits the nail on the head. The virtue signalers preaching Cultural Marxism and open borders, they never talk about what we can do to help the third world develop; I suspect that would make their resources too expensive.
When our culture and way of life is drowned under a tide of immigration, there will still be billions suffering in the third world, it’ll achieve nothing. This open borders stuff isn’t about helping the third world, it is about attacking and destroying us.
It (open borders) may be about two things – the transnational corporations raison d’etre to grow the world economy by creating more consumption and inching forward the liberal lefts next stage in its vision for a post-democratic world government with them in charge of course.
I take issue with the article saying let families in. Why? We have not caused the 3rd world. Don’t let any of them in.
Could I add malaria lassa fever aids ebola to yellow fever cholera tb. All endemic to the hot third world. I had to have a WHO card to travel TO the third world.
Now its racist to make basic health checks on migrants.
All liberals should be put close up to ebola victims for as long as it takes…
The further point is that they flee from their s***y cultures and then try to inflict them on us!
…assisted by “our” politicians. Presumably they have an escape plan.
When I was a kid Rhodesia was I believe the richest country in the world. Then came Mugabe fresh from London School of Economics ( LSE )Preaching marxism and talking to Harold Wilson.. …..Zimbabwe. Why dont they ask us to go back.?
To TGS
Would you go back?
‘…only take families, not draft dodgers”
Couldn’t agree more. And back as soon as it’s safe.
In my blacker moments I imagine that God has decreed the removal of the white race from Earth and will allow the place to degenerate back into the primeval soup from whence it came. Many white folk have been more than willing to offer their expertise and assist with educating the third world, showing them how to build, how to teach, how to organise, create business, etc etc….but there’s clear evidence we are not wanted. Third world only wants to grab what we’ve made and they expect an unlimited supply of it. MWT’s comment says it all……just what the hell is the endgame?
Fascinating and eye-opening article thanks.
It does make me puzzled what the globalists see in their endgame of turning Western civilization into a similar third world cesspit. When they are in their heavily armed compounds in the Cotswolds or the Côte d’Azur surrounded by an ever growing seething mass of Africans, Pakistanis and so on plus a few beaten down white serfs, who do they expect to be writing the novels, plays, and films or performing the operas and orchestral works the super rich like to go to. Who will be creating the fine wines and cuisine they like to drink and eat? Who will discover the science, technological and medical advances they depend on? Muslims and low IQ Africans? Do they never like to walk in the countryside or stroll round historic sites and museums? I get that they are greedy and venal psychopaths for whom the first billion is just the start but what’s the good of having untold wealth if there is little to spend it on?
MWT I view these peoples arrogance and selfishness like the black cat from three doors down that comes and shits in my veg garden rather than its own.
Harold -this all sounds too familiar and about right. Around thirty years ago in India, I hired a motorcycle from a young woman and wondered why she wanted to be paid in pounds. She told me she was planning on moving to England at the first available opportunity and so she was saving pounds in anticipation.
The above story, unfortunately, turned out to a dream shared by millions in India and around the world. God help our little island, I’m wondering how long it’ll be before it sinks under the weight.
Can the City of London make money out of it? Because that’s about what it really boils down to.
Our ‘little island’ has for too long been regarded as a ‘lifeboat’. Obviously, you shouldn’t overload a lifeboat.
For too long our ‘little island’ has been regarded as a ‘lifeboat’. You shouldn’t overload a lifeboat – it’ll sink like any other boat.