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  • dokken
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    What lessons can China learn from western immigration policy?

    Immigration in the U.K tops 365,000 per year (population is 64,000,00, London is 44 percent white. Counter-terrorism spending reaches epic proportions.

     

    As China develops what would your advice be in setting immigration policy for the future?

    10 years agoin Teaching & Leaming-Beijing
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  • Johnson2011
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    YOu have to be polite and super nice to them always, especially when you are not white.
    9 years ago
  • hopper2012
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    Just being nice always and stay away from trouble.
    9 years ago
  • Nicol123
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    The west really doesn't have a single immigration policy. Individual states do, but they are pretty varied. First, China is sort of a special case. It's multi-cultural as an immutable fact of its existence. It has 56 ethnic groups that speak up to 292 languages. So it can't really insist on a mono-culture. It can try to make its people more Han, or even insist on Mandarin, but the scale is just to large to make a mono-culture feasible. On the other hand, they're still very much a closed society. None of us could assimilate if we wanted to. Still, if they are going to keep investing in Africa it pretty easy to see how they could end up with a lot of immigrants. If that happens, best to ignore Europe and Australia and instead look to what works in the Americas.
    10 years ago
  • Lucy1989
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    This should apply as a universal migration policy throughout the world. If a person wants to employ you or receive goods and services provided by you and you have worthwhile skills and aren't some lowbrow dirge, you should be allowed to go anywhere you are needed. That's what living in a global economy entails.

    If they can get this right, the world would improve dramatically from all of the positive migrations and sharing of skills.

    The shit can stay home and watch fast and the furious 25 or whatever mindless shit it is that they love so much.

    10 years ago
  • Lucy1989
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    Only allow in migrants with degrees from accredited universities, meaning a standardized world-wide test needs to be developed to set the standard for what constitutes a proper graduate of an academic institution. Obviously the Chinese can't be relied upon to create this.

    This is necessary due to the erosion of standards caused by foreign students, dopey local jocks and corrupt university administrators who cater to them, subsequently destroying and undermining the integrity and credibility of the institution in order to make money. The only way I can envision fixing this is with some kind of oversight, and because the problem is worldwide, the regulatory body needs to be international. This should allow for the receipt of petitions from individuals anywhere in the world.

    The second test should be one concerning finances. Will this person be a drain on society? If they don't meet the criteria for employment I stipulated above, they can invest capital in the country, but they need to disclose all means by which they acquired it, meaning all companies, trusts etc. held by the applicant must be disclosed. If there is a hint of any financially inappropriate behaviour, including business ethics, not screwing with people's holiday plans and the timely payment of employees, among other criteria like no embezzlement or insider trading the application should be declined. Applicants should be treated as guilty until they prove themselves innocent with this one, meaning if any details of financial impropriety arise after the application is approved and they aren't disclosed on the form they should be charged with fraud, have their assets confiscated and be subsequently deported.

    10 years ago
  • Anna1234
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    when i see how kids in Chinese classes play games, they immediately seek out ways to cheat, completely ruining the game. perhaps this is why China has arbitrary law enforcement, no tax collection from individuals, and all kinds of unnecessary monitoring: rules just don't work with compulsive cheaters.

    immigration law in China might actually be effective in giving China what it wants: keeping people from 3rd world countries out/unwelcomed by skincolour ID. Laowai are "honest" in comparison, in that we first try to observe rules before resorting to cheating.

    Immigration in the West is not designed to deal with non-western immigrants: it has rigid rules that we expect immigrants to obey. but immigrants from lawless countries will usually assume that the laws just indicate where the profits are to be had. then they break, bend or lawyer around the rules as a force of habit.

    it's no coincidence that immigrants are heavily invested in illegal trade and drugs. the drugs trade in holland is a good indicator: marijuana is legal with restrictions, and suddenly the entire trade is dominated by white sellers, while the illegal stuff is still sold by immigrants.
    in the past, i'd believe the claims that immigrants are denied legal business opportunities, and must resort to crime. but after seeing how Chinese operate and play victim, i'm no longer convinced.

    10 years ago

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