Waheguru ji ka khalsa Waheguru ji ki fateh,
It may sound romantic and idealistic, but when I see so much migration and emigration I often wonder, what makes people flee their homelands? I understand the contingencies of education and work opportunities, but ultimately I feel that the heroic thing to do is to end up in your own country and lend your education and wisdom and vision to restoring something beautiful there. Otherwise I find there is much confusion and diluting of faith and identity when people scatter willy-nilly around the globe, often in abandonment of their homeland and heritage.
If people take their earnings and their learnings back to their native countries and determine to apply them to the resurrection of some strength and glory there, there would be less transmigration necessary.
Brother Onam ji,
Guru Fateh.
I beg to differ. If people had stayed in their respective places, then the birth of the Americas and other countries with different cultures, the spices, silk and many other things would not have been introduced anywhere. The mangoes, turmeric, cinnamon etc. etc. would have stayed in India. The potatoes with the Mayan and Inca cultures, Cashews called Caju in Portuguese would have stayed in the Amazons. Marco Polo would not have introduced the Chinese noodles as Spaghetti to the Italians.We would not even have had the American Indians who are Mongoloids. The DNA would have been weak because of the same gene mutations and hence our life span would have shortened along with many deformities.
I have no idea if you know it or not but the fact is that Punjab has the most homogeneous DNA of different races because of the invasions overland via Hindu Kush. Punjabis are called Caucasians or Aryans.
The curiosity to discover and also the power to loot the powerless via invasions have been The Wild Wild West of the Globe for millenia. Most of the great companies in the US, especially in the IT industry were started by the newcomers. Steve Jobs is just one example out of many whose father is Syrian.And how about Google and many more whose founders were not born here?
We would not have the US of A without the peoples flocking in here from different parts of the globe.
We are just a grain of sand in this ever expanding universe. The exchange of ideas sprouting in different corners with the other peoples is the way for the humankind to advance.
On the other side, you are right. Many Indian IT people who studied here have gone back and started their own companies because they could not get Green Cards. Many of them have become very successful there. We trained Nuclear Scientists from Iran in our own country and got paid for our services. Now, we object for them using the knowledge that we gave them which is ironic and senseless. How can one demand anyone else not to attain knowledge? It is impossible.
Regards
Tejwant Singh
