We live in a Global Village, so they say. It is just that some of the suburbs are worse than others. That is why people are migrating like birds in spring - looking for a place to live in peace; to make a living; to provide a better future for their children. As soon as one lot improves their living conditions, their neighbors envy them and – come hell or high-water – they want to share in your prosperity.
I sometimes have difficulty understanding why we – as Humanity – can not improof our living conditions generally. Why are some countries more affluent than others? More developed than others? At some stage in history the Incas and Mayas ruled the most powerful civilizations in that part of the world. Today its the US. But why couldn’t the Incas and Mayas keep it up. They surely had what was needed. Why will the US be tomorrow’s ‘civilization gone by’ with Americans cutting the fences and sneaking over the border, under cover of darkness and in search of a better future in Mexico?
This same strange phenomena can be found the world over. The poorest and most backward of nations on Earth today was once proud and prosperous people. In very few instances Nature had anything to do with their demise.
Whatever the answer may be, this is the reality with which we should deal: Today you are affluent and prosperous. You live in more peaceful environment with less crime and more work opportunity than I do. Either you ensure that I share the same quality of life or I’ll move over there and forcefully take some of yours for myself.
Soon the ‘poverty and backwardness virus’ I bear, will rub off on my host country and we will all become equally poor. But in Times to come my home country will be the prosperous one and we all – you included – will move back again.
Does not this peculiar human behavior make us all global citizens? Should our utterly selfishness not inspire us to take better care of our neighbors lest they come over here and infect us with their poverty virus – or even worse – we be forced to migrate their way and be dependent on their hospitality?
J.C.Grobler.
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