Ravi Nayyar on Nostr: nprofile1q…xd2rl If I may make a blunt, general point: Anyone who earns a good ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqe7rqcsp5pypj3ac5wxnvgnwxmdl5the60wggwlqytaxm9kql0cdsaxd2rl (nprofile…d2rl) If I may make a blunt, general point:
Anyone who earns a good wage, can feed themselves, is safe, welcomed and healthy, and has _a_ roof over their head ought to be thankful for the place they are in, rather than entertaining abstract dilemmas of ‘belonging’ and ‘home’.
If I speak about my country, people are hurting. Look up the crisis of violence against women, in many cases making them homeless. Look at the families where the parents are university-educated professionals but are increasingly signing up for food aid because they are unable to afford basic groceries. And I’m not even talking about the healthcare staffing crisis in regional areas where pregnant women in Gosford will have to be driven to Sydney to safely have their babies because their local hospital doesn’t have enough obstetrics and gynaecology senior specialists.
Hence, to make a general point, I find it utterly nonsensical and out-of-touch for people, especially educated people who arrive in advanced economies legally and with good jobs, to go all postmodernist and nihilist about whether they will feel ‘at home’ in said economies.
Mate, the scores of people living in/close to poverty in said advanced economies would do anything to have the opportunities, income and comforts that the former people have.
Anyone who earns a good wage, can feed themselves, is safe, welcomed and healthy, and has _a_ roof over their head ought to be thankful for the place they are in, rather than entertaining abstract dilemmas of ‘belonging’ and ‘home’.
If I speak about my country, people are hurting. Look up the crisis of violence against women, in many cases making them homeless. Look at the families where the parents are university-educated professionals but are increasingly signing up for food aid because they are unable to afford basic groceries. And I’m not even talking about the healthcare staffing crisis in regional areas where pregnant women in Gosford will have to be driven to Sydney to safely have their babies because their local hospital doesn’t have enough obstetrics and gynaecology senior specialists.
Hence, to make a general point, I find it utterly nonsensical and out-of-touch for people, especially educated people who arrive in advanced economies legally and with good jobs, to go all postmodernist and nihilist about whether they will feel ‘at home’ in said economies.
Mate, the scores of people living in/close to poverty in said advanced economies would do anything to have the opportunities, income and comforts that the former people have.