USA, Number 37!
2009 September 17
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How about that? 37, eh?
and YET people are risking death and arrest to get into the U.S. every day. People are wanting to come to the U.S. by the boatloads and raft loads and jamming into into the back of trucks to be smuggled across the border.
I wonder why?
Tbh, I mainly put this up because I thought the song was catchy and the quite funny!
Of course the people of the United States have a better lifestyle than those living in say, Mexico (which has problems of it’s own creation, as well as those created by the US and other countries), but that’s not exactly a high bar standard with which to measure success.
People come to the UK from the Carribean, parts of Africa, the Mid-East, India and Pakistan etc for the same reasons as people move to the US. There has been a huge influx of eastern European immigration to the UK in the last 5 years since the EU expanded and millions more people have residency/work rights in the UK now they’re EU members. Interestingly enough thousands of people from Poland, Hungary, Romania etc have started to return home since the recession kicked off perhaps realising that the UK isn’t exactly the utopia they may have pictured in their minds.
“Of course the people of the United States have a better lifestyle than those living in say, Mexico…”
Reading that sentence back it seems way too disparaging of Mexico and other ‘developing’ countries. I should have probably said Americans have a higher income per capita etc. It can’t be said ALL Americans/Brits etc have a better lifestyle than people from Mexico and other developing counries, such sentiments would be absurd. By a number of qualatative measures I’m sure the exact reverse could be argued (ie, lower levels of sociatal breakdown, less rampant individualism, anomie etc).
Obviously countries such as the US and UK are attractive for immigrants in economic terms etc, but obviously other social aspects aren’t so clear cut…which I should have made clear above!
watch out when you start to quote yourself.