/lit/ - Literature

>>20540362
>why the king existed
The Will of God

Also for those who think this is a waste of time, people really appreciate it if you can discriminate properly. A prog sees a Ute, an Igbo or a Uighur and just thinks oppressed person. I can talk with them about the culture and history of their people. I spent an hour speaking with my Korean boss at a dinner about the origins of the Korean races.

>>15919390
Seconded. African-American is an ethnicity with shared values and traditions. Black is a skin color. Except for perhaps the Gullah and a few other small groups in the rural south, most African Americans are culturally far closer to low caste Anglo's then they are to other Africans.

Has anyone ever attempted to synthesize the Marxist dialectic between the First and Third world and migration patterns of the present era? Specifically what I'm referring to is the Leninist-Maoist Idea that the wealth of developed nations stems from the exploitation of the global south and the poverty of the latter cannot be separated from the former. Essentially this is a larger scale version of the idea that the burgers cannot live in comfort without the relative poverty of the workers.

It strikes me that we see this same dynamic today in global migration patterns. Specifically I am referring to the low birthrate of developed nations compared to the high birth rate of the third world. To remain economically competitive developed nations siphon off the most educated classes of poorer nations, as well as the most ambitious elements of society. This is most evident in the massive brain drain experienced by most African nations. Nigeria for instance invests large amounts of capital in producing and educating young humans.The most intelligent and ambitious subsequently migrate to Europe and Africa where they work for the most productive part of their lives. In the long term this may have a negative effect on the Nigerian genepool while augmenting that of Euro-American nations. The global north gains far more from the migration of skilled workers then the south does, even when the payments sent home are accounted for. Furthermore, payments to families in the home country are typically invested in luxury goods rather then being reinvested into industry. In the Philippines, where labor migration is typically temporary, even more is lost as the Filipino government pays for both the education of workers, and supports them in their old age, while missing out on the labor these workers provide in their most productive years.

Essentially it appears to me, that the low birth rates and high productivity of the first world are increasingly dependent on the higher birth rates of the third. Labor migration means that wealthy countries invest less and less into their laborers while still obtaining the same results. Consequently the dependent to producer ratio in the south rises while in the north it is kept unsustainably low. To be clear, I have spent far more time studying global migration and demography then Marxist theory. I simply came across the latter and felt that it provided a good mirror to the former. I have read some of Wallerstein's work on world systems theory and I found it to be very compelling.

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>>15816853
See: Actual Kangz