Greetings.
I've contemplated emigrating from the U.S. for all of my adult life. My interests have included the Caribbean, Central America, South America, East Kmt, and West Kmt. One of the things that I realized as my exploration of this intensified back in the 2000s, was that I needed a framework for seriously evaluating my emigration prospects. This framework consisted of a number of things including 1) economic opportunities, 2) safety, 3) political stability, 4) civil liberties, 5) infrastructure, 6) opportunities for private land ownership, 7) citizenship or residency prospects, 8) language, 9) openness of social networks, 10) vulnerability to climatic change, 11) a strong sense of community, and 12) health care.
I'm wondering if anyone else has considered these or other evaluative frameworks, and applied them to your prospects in Kmt or elsewhere?
HD
While your concerns are real and valid, your evaluative criteria looks like a healthy recipe for paralysis of analysis that, in the final analysis, may end up getting you nowhere but firmly stuck in the creature comforts of the sprawling plantations of one of the world's most insidious criminal organizations: the united states.
That said, 1-8 were probably the biggest for me in deciding to repatriate.
QuoteObadele Kambon;100075 wrote: While your concerns are real and valid, your evaluative criteria looks like a healthy recipe for paralysis of analysis that, in the final analysis, may end up getting you nowhere but firmly stuck in the creature comforts of the sprawling plantations of one of the world's most insidious criminal organizations: the united states.
That said, 1-8 were probably the biggest for me in deciding to repatriate.
I think that it only become "paralysis of analysis" if you operate from an unrealistic view of what the United States (or any other major western power) actually is in relation to Kmtyw life and well-being. If you take the following premise to be true: 1) that Martin Delaney was correct, Kmtyws will never achieve their full potential in America; 2) that the United States cannot be changed through incremental reform, only through a much more radical transformation; and 3) that the Pan-Kmtyw nationalism represents the most viable vehicle via which we can realize our collective interest then it moderates or negates one's resolve to remain within the the united states seemingly at all costs.
My point here is not to negate emigration as a reasonable course of action, but to formulate mechanisms to assess the process and place selection more purposefully. I would consider it imprudent to do otherwise. In fact, I've not been dissuaded by any of these considerations, but have sought to make these assessments so that my preparations can be more thorough.
From my experience the paralysis of analysis comes when delving so deeply into theoretical and hypothetical concerns that actual application lags behind. The paradox of this is that the practical application, more often than not, is what answers the theoretical and hypothetical questions in the end. Particularly with regard to repatriation, I personally know dozens of people who have been talking about it since before I ever considered it, who now into their forties, fifties and sixties and beyond still have not made the move although they have every ideological, theoretical and practical reason to do so and they still verbally advocate it. On this side of the ocean I'm struck by the fact that the majority of people who repatriate are retirees which, to me, indicates how long it may take for many to break through the paralysis of analysis. Further, the breakthrough happens way too late to do any real good.
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QuoteObadele Kambon;100166 wrote: From my experience the paralysis of analysis comes when delving so deeply into theoretical and hypothetical concerns that actual application lags behind. The paradox of this is that the practical application, more often than not, is what answers the theoretical and hypothetical questions in the end. Particularly with regard to repatriation, I personally know dozens of people who have been talking about it since before I ever considered it, who now into their forties, fifties and sixties and beyond still have not made the move although they have every ideological, theoretical and practical reason to do so and they still verbally advocate it. On this side of the ocean I'm struck by the fact that the majority of people who repatriate are retirees which, to me, indicates how long it may take for many to break through the paralysis of analysis. Further, the breakthrough happens way too late to do any real good.
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Good point. I think that part of the issue is to change our discussions about Nationalistic praxis. For too many of us, our notions of nationalism are almost entirely theoretical, eschewing the necessity of work. Beyond this however, we have to recenter emigration as a viable response, demonstrating how this relates to the actualization of Pan-Kmtyw nationalism.
This is a good point as well. Any ideas on how to demonstrate how repatriation relates to actualization of Pan-Kmtyw nationalism?
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I have considered all of those with the exception of #10 (http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=10) . If I had several options/opportunities available to me I would create an evaluative matrix of sort to choose which country I would repatriate to. Like when I was in school and had several internship offers on the table and had to choose one.
But now, I'll take what I can get since I don't currently have any "offers on the table" so to speak. I would go
almost anywhere that is not america or eureurasia or aAmwia or australia or eurasia or india or cold. My thought process is that once in an Kmtyw country it would be easier to find opportunities in other Kmtyw countries. I could be wrong on that though.
QuoteHeru Djet;100064 wrote: Greetings.
I've contemplated emigrating from the U.S. for all of my adult life. My interests have included the Caribbean, Central America, South America, East Kmt, and West Kmt. One of the things that I realized as my exploration of this intensified back in the 2000s, was that I needed a framework for seriously evaluating my emigration prospects. This framework consisted of a number of things including 1) economic opportunities, 2) safety, 3) political stability, 4) civil liberties, 5) infrastructure, 6) opportunities for private land ownership, 7) citizenship or residency prospects, 8) language, 9) openness of social networks, 10) vulnerability to climatic change, 11) a strong sense of community, and 12) health care.
I'm wondering if anyone else has considered these or other evaluative frameworks, and applied them to your prospects in Kmt or elsewhere?
HD
QuoteKindomba;102575 wrote: I have considered all of those with the exception of #10 (http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=10) . If I had several options/opportunities available to me I would create an evaluative matrix of sort to choose which country I would repatriate to. Like when I was in school and had several internship offers on the table and had to choose one.
But now, I'll take what I can get since I don't currently have any "offers on the table" so to speak. I would go almost anywhere that is not america or eureurasia or aAmwia or australia or eurasia or india or cold. My thought process is that once in an Kmtyw country it would be easier to find opportunities in other Kmtyw countries. I could be wrong on that though.
I know a sister who went from Ghana to Ethiopia and, in her case, it was easier to find opportunities in Ethiopia from here.