Interesting article. Of course, the one exception to this rule is Israel, which has been quite welcoming to low-skilled immigrants (Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews) in huge numbers in the past. But I guess that it’s an exception that proves the rule since it was founded as a safe haven for Jewish refugees. Not very egalitarian to admit smart a…
Interesting article. Of course, the one exception to this rule is Israel, which has been quite welcoming to low-skilled immigrants (Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews) in huge numbers in the past. But I guess that it’s an exception that proves the rule since it was founded as a safe haven for Jewish refugees. Not very egalitarian to admit smart and educated Jewish refugees but not dull and uneducated ones.
Israel still has open borders, but only for Jews and people of close Jewish descent (at least one halakhically Jewish grandparent). And even then, there has been some backlash in regards to this in Israel for allowing too many people who are not halakhically Jewish to immigrate to Israel, even though they actually do contribute to Israel, its economy, its budget, its society, and its military in a way that some other Israelis, such as the Haredim, do not.
Personally, I would prefer keeping liberal democracy while having more selective immigration in much higher numbers. We can also seek to make things fairer by using IQ testing for immigration purposes, not just educational credentials. At least that way we’ll be able to discover potential talent from Third World slums who didn’t have the opportunity or money to get fancy college degrees. But of course aiming for pro-natalism is also a good idea!
As a side note, in the past in the US, even some high-skilled immigrant groups, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Ashkenazi Jews, were not universally welcomed. But thankfully we appear to be a more tolerant society nowadays.
Interesting article. Of course, the one exception to this rule is Israel, which has been quite welcoming to low-skilled immigrants (Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews) in huge numbers in the past. But I guess that it’s an exception that proves the rule since it was founded as a safe haven for Jewish refugees. Not very egalitarian to admit smart and educated Jewish refugees but not dull and uneducated ones.
Israel still has open borders, but only for Jews and people of close Jewish descent (at least one halakhically Jewish grandparent). And even then, there has been some backlash in regards to this in Israel for allowing too many people who are not halakhically Jewish to immigrate to Israel, even though they actually do contribute to Israel, its economy, its budget, its society, and its military in a way that some other Israelis, such as the Haredim, do not.
Personally, I would prefer keeping liberal democracy while having more selective immigration in much higher numbers. We can also seek to make things fairer by using IQ testing for immigration purposes, not just educational credentials. At least that way we’ll be able to discover potential talent from Third World slums who didn’t have the opportunity or money to get fancy college degrees. But of course aiming for pro-natalism is also a good idea!
As a side note, in the past in the US, even some high-skilled immigrant groups, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Ashkenazi Jews, were not universally welcomed. But thankfully we appear to be a more tolerant society nowadays.