Give an inch they take a mile. 📐⚖️

Not everyone.

I believe it's something like this: Either they take a mile, or they're thinking about how they could give 2 inches back to you.

Or maybe it's more like 1 inch or 1.05 or 1.10 inches.

Or 7 or 8 inches if they really love you.

Point is, people either are trying to be good and fair, or if they aren't, then there's no limit to what they want. Their limit is whatever they can get.

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For example, let's talk about immigration.

data from Wiki: link

I don't lose much sleep over what the immigration rate is. Life will go on.

But when you look at the numbers, it's interesting (and actually kind of frightening) to me that there is this cadre of people who fiercely call for more immigration and for the US and in general "the West" (white people) to be more open to immigrants.

They sometimes suggest that these are racist countries who don't like immigrants etc.

These are the countries who already have a super high amount of foreign-born population.

US 14.3%, Germany 14.9%, UK 13.2%, Canada 21.9%, Australia 33.3%, France 11.1%, yadee yada. European countries seem generally in 8-18% type of range.

Compared to 3.3% worldwide.

Note: There are a lot of smaller and third world countries with an off-the-charts high percentage, like UAE at 83%, American Somoa 71%, Kuwait 70%.

(I don't know what this is about. I'd imagine it's some kink of being a small country. Imperialism and contract workers could be a part of it. Maybe in some cases a big hospital is across a border, so a lot of the population is technically foreign-born. Idk. Demographics are fun. Would be interesting to figure out what causes this. Anyways..)

So the Western countries don't top the list. But shatter the 3.3% global average. And are way higher than basically every other developed or larger country.

Russia (white people, but not the West) 7.7%, India 0.4%, Japan 1.9%, Brazil 0.9%, Thailand 5.6%

Mexico 0.9% 😆😆 (multiculturalism so important tho rite?)

China 0.1% 😲

Yadee yada. You can scroll down the list yourself. Point being, the US and the white people countries don't seem to suffer from being too exclusive or not taking on enough immigration.

Rather, it's quite the opposite. These countries should be praised for how welcoming they are.

And other countries like Mexico and India should be criticized for wanting their cake and eating it too in this regard.

It's all about the story line

If the leftist SJW story line was generally something like "so ya, we're a super accepting country.. but let's be even more accepting!!"..

Then I wouldn't be that wary of it. Whether or not I perfectly agreed, that's a sane and fine attitude.

There are compelling arguments about why too much "diversity" too fast is actually not good for a culture, and I tend to agree with those. But I don't claim to know or really care much exactly where the line should be.

And meeting and welcoming people from new cultures and countries feels appealing and nourishing to me, and something that I'm more inclined to like rather than dislike.

In general my belief is: if you say something matters to you, then you should act accordingly.

If you say welcoming immigrants is important to you, you should welcome them. Be a host, and introduce someone to the country and help them have a smooth transition. Find some immigrant friends, help them find a job. Etc.

(I bet conservative families do that a lot more often than the liberal SJWs -- zing 😃)

Like anything, the SJWs are in it for the virtue signaling rather than actually doing the things they say are good.

And then, the appetite of how welcoming and fostering people actually are (rather than what they talk about) just naturally determines what the immigration rate of that country should be.

You don't have to talk about it or argue about it. Just do it if you believe it's important.

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To whatever extent there are pockets of immigrants who live among themselves, that seems out of balance and to indicate that people are talking about wanting immigrants more than actually meaning it.

The point of coming to a new country, after all, should generally be that you like that country and want to be a part of the culture it currently has.

If actually they prefer their own culture, they could have had that at home. And their motivations for doing it here instead (whether it has to do with making more money or dodging oppression) are of course totally rational on their part. These motivations just have nothing to do with sharing cultures with each other.

It's classically SJW. To bark about something and not actually mean it, and then what you end with is a bastardization of what allegedly the goal was.

You end up with a 1-way street, where immigrants tend to often be in it for the resources rather than they're necessarily interested in the country and the culture they're joining.

So what exactly would be the "correct" amount of immigration is hard to really determine.

The Xs and Os and how many migrant workers and which roaming caravan of Hondurans should be accepted and stuff like can be argued back and forth and it's hard to pinpoint what truly is right.

(The real answer is to decentralize it and not have these wonky borders, and instead have more intimate ways of sorting it out. But that's for another blog entry.)

But I feel like if you don't start with the general picture that it's a welcoming and immigrant-friendly country and go from there, then you're one of the people who wants a mile.

If you don't admit that the grass is green, I suspect there's something wrong or nefarious about your motivations. It's hard to figure that you're trying to be reasonable. You're trying to manipulate and guilt people into what you want.