I don't believe you understand it. It's not about nationalism or culture. It's about world development. The West can't solve developing world problems and neither can the West throwing money at developing governments. The solution is education (especially for women), healthcare and sustainable development.
Professionals and academics, human capital, contributes to those things. When a person becomes financially stable and or educated enough to travel overseas and they do not return, we have Brain Drain.
There two solutions that work together. First, reverse the Brain Drain as suggested. Encourage those empowered to "give back". The second is for the West to stop throwing money and move there. Bring the Western education and money, and invest it. Own poverty by being a part of it. We can only fix what we own.
For you to construe that as the equivalent of nazi rhetoric is absurd at best.
I think you have misunderstood. I didn’t construe anything as Nazi rhetoric, to the contrary I was mocking those that would. As it is a case that any who oppose open borders are now to be considered Nazis.
I’m familiar with the concept of Brain Drain but thank you regardless for elaborating.
I left a part of my response to you out for fear of sounding like a fortune cookie.
You spoke of desire and rejection in regards to intentions. That’s a duality which has no basis in reality.
Many teachers — those I’ve met and those I’ve read — all agree that Buddhism isn’t looking for converts. They don’t want you to take on the trappings of their food, history, culture, or even religious ritual. You have your own. Another way put is you are not Chinese or Japanese or Tibetan or SE Asian (unless you are of course) so don’t pretend you are, certainly not for Buddha’s sake.
Take the Dharma back with you and incorporate it into your own culture, language, food, history, religion and cultivate it.
The same is for these refugees (migrant workers under the guise of refugees I have nothing but contempt for) You’re not Swedish or German or Danish or Dutch. Don’t try to be. You need help. You need assistance. Take it. Take it and go. Go and others will go with and help you build there what you see and want here.
I don’t know if I’m not reading you right or if you are truly trying to detach nationalism and culture from world development. Everything is connected. Like it or not people do identify by race or religion or nationality or culture. There will always be tribalism. There will always be Self and Other. No one in the next myriad of myriads is going to bring about a critical mass that will allow everyone to escape this duality. To escape this reality.
Now do I believe that everyone who opposes refugees and migration are thinking on this higher level? No. Of course not. There’s plenty of good old fashion prejudice and racism. There also isn’t. But you don’t hear it. Can’t hear it, it’s just got to be hatred or fear or whatever demagoguery that’s convenient and expeditious.
I’m carrying on here but the last point I’d like to address is if you think any of this is for the betterment of refugees or if you think that this “world development” is some noble pursuit to raise up all of mankind from poverty and squalor, well, all I can say is, that’s absurd at best.
