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To: 8bits who wrote (16442)	4/4/2007 12:07:59 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 219833

8bits, I doubt there is much net inbound migration to Singapore these days, lots of Filipinos and others go there on limited duration labor contracts and after a while they return home to be replaced by others. And Singapore is largely an accident of geography and history and the region doesn't need another Singapore, if you went to any one of the hundreds of other small islands nearby and created there the same somewhat European level of security and public safety you have in Singapore it doesn't mean that you would get the high rise buildings and prosperity of Singapore. I can answer your remark about the "average Filipino" this way: In my wifes very large (many dozens) extended family there are exactly three people abroad, including her, and all three of them would return today and never leave the Philippines again if they could. As for the rest, you couldn't get them to leave with dynamite. And I would say our family is pretty typical. There is a large Filipino diaspora, nobody really knows how large, but a large proportion of them, especially since 1993, are abroad on labor contracts and nearly all these will return some day, along with a fair number of the rest. The main thing about the Philippines is the population, which could be 150 million, nobody really knows. The government number is 89 million but nobody believes this. They don't do a census there where they count the whole country. Instead, they have a bureau which conducts a "continuous census' and the government has every incentive to fudge as they are always under pressure from the one worlders in the UN and World Bank to reduce the population. SO they just produce whatever numbers suit and deliver them with a big "screw you" smile. All the while the government is, quietly, making plans to double, even triple the population. I think it is very cool. <grin> So what you have is at least 100 million, probably many more, or ONE THIRD the population of the whole USA crowded into a USABLE land area maybe less than HALF the size of the US State of Georgia. On "off topic" I guess we have drifted a bit. As to "powerful and/or armed locals in the world to seize property based on someone's "foreigness" of perception of wealth". Absolutely, that is how most of the world works, to a degree. Heck, every place outside of Europe and the English speaking world is pretty much that way. Just look at a globe, it is nearly the whole place. There are all sorts of local variations, of course, but that is really the WORLD STANDARD rather than the Eurocentric idea that rests entirely on the law. And it will be that way forever, in most of these places, it will never change, and it is not altogether a bad thing. Slagle