Monday, 12 March 2018

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE PARADOX OF 'THE IMMIGRANT.' THE END.!








Obstacles and barriers which compromise our ability to embrace the new conditions of the present, in which we find ourselves. But which we must overcome, if we are to willingly contemplate and grasp a shared future of peace and stability. 

If we cling rigidly and immovably to our past and our past selves, then we cannot, we will not be able to build a better future which is needed. 

After all, why does the immigrant move from one country or land or state of being to another, if it is not that the land and/or state of being in which they find themselves, no longer meet their needs? 

Why do the oppressed and exploited, not cling on to their state of being oppressed and exploited, if not to achieve the status of being free from their state of oppression and of being exploited. 




And, how can they free themselves, without first freeing themselves of the mind set and the environmental conditions which have given rise to it? 

And, we might ask, what is the point of freeing oneself from those conditions, which have led to the plight from which the immigrant seeks to flee.  

If you then seek to take all them with you, by way of your 'old worldview', to the new country, your new home, and replicate them?

Yes, the seeds are sown for the evolution of a diverse, dysfunctional mosaic of cultural, religious and ethnic enclaves. The necessary ingredients for present tensions and future communal conflicts.




Which is why the progression and evolution of society demands that both the immigrant and the host community, must be willing to embrace change, by giving up on some of their past. 

To let the old give way to the new.  A new that is fresh and representative of its constituent parts, working in harmony for the greatest good of all the people. 

And the moral of paradox of the immigrant, is that, if you have need to move to another country, for economic and/or political reasons.  

You owe that country a debt of gratitude to embrace its way of life, and to become an 'ordinary member' of its society. 




And, as much as possible avoid living in the past, culturally, geographically and historically. 

There is also a message for the host society, which is that, just as how the life of a couple changes when they have children, so must a society evolves and changes when it takes in immigrants. 

The challenge is for those changes to be allowed to take place in an astutely managed context, and not become haphazard, if current and future conflict is to be minimised.






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