But especially the US.
The history of the US is full of large groups of people coming en masse from places where they weren't doing too well -- in some cases they were literally starving -- and yet when they arrived they worked hard and made the fit.
When people flee from war-torn areas in particular, as with the Ivory Coast, riven by civil war, their ability to make it in their own country is impeded by the fact that their own country is on fire. It's hard to run a business or cultivate a farm when people are shooting at you. It has nothing to do with the ability, intelligence or industriousness of the people who leave. The conditions in the country itself are just bad.
The unfortunates in Paris didn't come to France expecting not to work, and in fact they had jobs. They didn't come expecting to live in luxury apartments. What they came expecting was a safer place to raise their children. Instead they got predatory landlords housing them in death traps.
If the First World nation supplies Third World housing in the heart of its capital, then the immigrants haven't really moved to the First World, have they?
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You describe almost any large immigrant influx to almost any nation at almost any period in history.
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- Poverty in Paris
- re: Poverty in Paris
- So they're not suppose to be poor anymore?
- Where in the story gave you the idea that these were "simple uneducated primitives"?
- You raise some valid issues but..
- ***A portion of this thread has been relocated to Flame***
- Apparently you don't understand the meaning of "destitute".
- they're coming to get you personally - all the way from Africa