How skilled indian immigration almost erased the Fidjis
The recent debate about skilled legal immigration on X is a good time to bring up a case study, that can show unwanted side effects.
Let's go back in time to the year 1970 on the Fiji islands.
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The indigenous people are already a minority. The descendants of imported Indian workers took over. 60,000 were brought to their shores in the early 20th century - temporarily, they said. But they did not go home. Their number grew through replacement migration and birth rates!
The demographics tipped in the 1940s. The foreigners did not assimilate but formed their own parallel society and political parties. Thanks to the ethnic vote, in 1987 they elected their own president for the first time. He wanted to abolish the constitutional right of the
The army stood up against this the breach of the constitution and dismissed the government. The new government started a #remigration program consisting Fiji "Leitkultur", protective laws for the indigenous and economic pressure. It worked. Many Indians went home.
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Some 30 years later, the locals are once again in the majority and will remain so. Some Indians stayed, but they are no threat to the Fiji majority.
What would the world have gained if the 1,425,776,000 people of India would have “swallowed” up the 929,766 Fijians?
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Indians might be more industrious and prolific, than the indigenous population of the Fidjis. The remigration of indians might have even hurt the GDP of the Fidjis.
But if a "Kapitalism uber alles" World would mean the systematic extinction of ethnicities and even whole nations
Indian culture is valuable & unique. So is that of the Fijis.
While I don't believe in a universalistic objective "right to existence" of cultures, I believe in the subjective moral right of every nation to defend its ethnocultural identity.
Plus I love REAL diversity, of nations
PS: Considering, that the Migration flooding Europe is not only destroying our culture but also not even skilled or economically helpful, the Fidji-Scenario is also a strong case for a massive Remigration in our continent.
Book "Remigration" it will be translated in 2025.
You
How skilled indian immigration almost erased the Fidjis
The recent debate about skilled legal immigration on X is a good time to bring up a case study, that can show unwanted side effects.
Let's go back in time to the year 1970 on the Fiji islands.
1/7The indigenous people are already a minority. The descendants of imported Indian workers took over. 60,000 were brought to their shores in the early 20th century - temporarily, they said. But they did not go home. Their number grew through replacement migration and birth rates! The demographics tipped in the 1940s. The foreigners did not assimilate but formed their own parallel society and political parties. Thanks to the ethnic vote, in 1987 they elected their own president for the first time. He wanted to abolish the constitutional right of the The army stood up against this the breach of the constitution and dismissed the government. The new government started a #remigration program consisting Fiji "Leitkultur", protective laws for the indigenous and economic pressure. It worked. Many Indians went home.
4/7 Some 30 years later, the locals are once again in the majority and will remain so. Some Indians stayed, but they are no threat to the Fiji majority.
What would the world have gained if the 1,425,776,000 people of India would have “swallowed” up the 929,766 Fijians?
5/7 Indians might be more industrious and prolific, than the indigenous population of the Fidjis. The remigration of indians might have even hurt the GDP of the Fidjis.
But if a "Kapitalism uber alles" World would mean the systematic extinction of ethnicities and even whole nations Indian culture is valuable & unique. So is that of the Fijis.
While I don't believe in a universalistic objective "right to existence" of cultures, I believe in the subjective moral right of every nation to defend its ethnocultural identity.
Plus I love REAL diversity, of nations PS: Considering, that the Migration flooding Europe is not only destroying our culture but also not even skilled or economically helpful, the Fidji-Scenario is also a strong case for a massive Remigration in our continent.
Book "Remigration" it will be translated in 2025.
You
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