A strange kind of human social progress
this is, abandoning an earlier era when
respect for process and method saw those
eager to leave their homelands to migrate
elsewhere in response to opportunity or the
urge to escape repression, oppression and
abuse, make application for immigration
prepared to await the outcome, hoping for
acceptance and if they arrived at their new
adopted country prepared to learn its history
customs and values, obeying its laws
anxious to become an integrated part of the
whole. Refugees too, escaping state-level
human rights abuses or conflict arrived to
take their place with gratitude for their rescue
in the orderly process whereby nations select
those they deem capable of integration and
conformation. A new era has dawned where
failed societies ruled by tyrants, nations where
criminal gangs challenge government for authority
countries at war with themselves and their near
neighbours bleed migrants escaping the confines
of uncertainty and fear marching en masse
declaring themselves entitled to bypass legal
systems and other nations' will as they seek out
those countries identified with wealth, defying
security and laws in violent rebellion against
exclusion. Migrant groups seeking a better life
scorning their haven's heritage, culture and
values, bringing their own establishing enclaves
of resentment and rage that the culture and
values of the their own heritage are not the
universal norm as they set about with firm intent
to establish there the very conditions they fled.
No comments:
Post a Comment