Two European (and global) football powerhouses clashed recently
in Sankt Petersburg. France ultimately
beat Belgium 1-0, through a goal scored in the 51st minute by Samuel
Umtiti. But many would argue that the
star of the match was another French player, 20-years-old Kylian Mbappé. Kylian was born in Paris, but both his
parents hail from Africa – and both are talented sportsmen in their own right:
his Algerian mother is a former handball player; his father originates from
Cameroon and is a football coach.
Cameroon, by the way, is also the birth place of French goal-scorer
Umtiti. The country’s national squad,
unfortunately, failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup.
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Kylian Mbappé's mother was a talented handball player inconservative Morocco, where women rarely get a chance to shine. |
Most spectators would agree that among the best Belgian
players were Marouane Fellaini and Nacer Chadli – both born in Belgium to
Moroccan parents. A third Belgian player
– Romelu Lukaku – is often cited as the national squad’s star player. He was also born in Belgium, but to parents
who had migrated from Zaire. All three
hail from ‘sportsy’ families; there’s clearly a strong component of ‘nature’ in
the ‘nature + nurture’ mix that produced these outstanding footballers.
They are not the only ones.
Another Belgian player (Carrasco) has a Portuguese father and a Spanish
mother; Vincent Kompany’s parents are Congolese; Kevin De Bruyne’s mother was
born in Burundi…
On the French side, Lucas Hernández was born to a Spanish
father; Antoine Griezmann – to a German father and a Portuguese mother. Besides Umtiti and Mbappé, at least three
other French players are of African descent: N'Golo Kanté’s parents from Mali;
Paul Pogba’s from Guinea; and Blaise Matuidi’s from Angola and Congo.
These are interesting observations, especially at a time
when migration to ‘the rich world’ (or indeed ‘the free world’ or ‘the safe
world’) is becoming a top political issue in Europe and North
America.
The footballers mentioned above are living proof that
migration can be a success story – and that its effect on the host country can
be very positive. Indeed, without those talented
players, it is doubtful that France and Belgium would be as strong as they are.
There is, however, a dark side to this success – one that
pro-migration ideologues pretend not to see: France and Belgium’s gain is also
the loss of countries like Morocco, Cameroon, Zaire, Congo, Mali, Angola and
Burundi – all of them former European colonies.
And all of them able to field much poorer football national teams,
compared to their former colonisers.
Only one of the list of African countries above – Morocco – qualified
for the World Cup; and even Morocco was forced to pack their bags early, after
two defeats and a draw in the groups stage.
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No, this is not Samuel Umtiti; they are Cameroon's children -- those that didn't make it to Europe. |
It’s not just football players, of course: it’s doctors,
engineers, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs from former European colonies in
Africa and Asia. Having robbed those
countries of their natural resources – for decades or even centuries – Europe
now drain them of their most precious asset: their best, brightest, most talented
people. And no, not every one of them
gets to be a football star or a university professor; most migrants end up
eking out a living by doing the jobs Europeans can’t be bothered to do
themselves – a ‘modern’ form of exploitation that borders on slavery. If you don’t believe this – go out there and
look who’s cleaning public toilets in Paris and Brussels. Or indeed in London!
It’s not just former colonies: it’s poorer countries, in
general. Romania, for instance, is one
of those poor countries – the poorest in the European Union; maybe not quite as
pauper as Cameroon and Zaire, but certainly poorer than France and Belgium.
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Poverty destroys everything – but arguably nothing as much
as healthcare. There is a huge
healthcare gap between France and Romania (let alone France and Cameroon!) But healthcare is not an easy profession: training
a doctor involves many years of study followed by even more years of hard graft
leading to – at best – mediocre pay.
That’s in recent times in France, for instance, the medical
profession has been attracting few ‘native’ Frenchmen and women.
So the French authorities invited foreign doctors (primarily
Romanian) to apply for jobs in the French healthcare system. And the applicants were so numerous, that the
French could afford to be really choosey: they employed the best of the
bunch. Between 2008 and 2013, the number
of foreign doctors working in France shot up by 43%. According to the president of Romania’s
College of Physicians, between
13,000 and 14,000 Romanian doctors work abroad, 4,000 of them in
France.
Says
Prof. Vasile Astarastoae, president of the Romanian College of Physicians:
"There is a major crisis in Romania when it comes to having enough doctors. In 2011 there were 21,400 doctors working in Romanian hospitals. On 1 November 2013 there were only 14,400."
By 2014, France had circa
330 practicing physicians per 100,000 inhabitants. Romania had just 270; Poland had only
230. According to an
academic study
“The brain drain of Romanian doctors constitutes […] a dramatic loss for the national healthcare provision”
Life expectancy in France is currently 82 years – and significantly
longer if you happen to be white. In
Romania, it’s just 75 years…
In Pakistan, there are just 81 physicians per 100,000
inhabitants; in India, just 73. Yet many
Pakistani and Indian doctors work in the British NHS – which takes pride in its
enlightened, ‘progressive’ diversity.
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This Romanian doctor looks happy: he practices in Northern France. His compatriots, however, were left with even poorer health care. |
It requires many years and a lot of money to train a
doctor. And if that physician ends up
working in oh-so excitingly multicultural London or Paris – rather than in
native Bucharest (or Karachi or Mumbai or Kinshasa) – then that celebrated diversity
comes at a heavy cost in ‘diverse’ life and limb.
And it’s not just about healthcare or economics. By uprooting talented people away from their
own language, customs, identity – the rich countries perpetrate something akin
to cultural genocide. There is nothing
‘progressive’ in that.
It is ‘progressive’, charitable and simply humane to give to
the poor – not take away even the little they have; so why are we taking
doctors away from Pakistan and Romania – rather than sending doctors and nurses
there??
Whether in Europe or USA, Australia, Canada and Israel,
‘pro-migration’ ideologues feel inherently superior to those ‘populist’ cavemen
who object to unrestricted migration. As
I sit writing this, a cohort of self-proclaimed idealists use ships bought with
donors’ money to ‘rescue’ migrants. They
pick them up from just outside Libyan waters, lift them from the overcrowded
and shabby boats provided by people-smugglers and drop them on the nearest
European beach. There is ‘instant
gratification’ in that – at zero risk to the ‘idealists’. But this free ferry service also causes more
and more pauper Africans to take the risk – to pay more and more money to board
increasingly overcrowded, ever-shabbier boats.
In so doing, the ‘idealists’ probably end up killing more people than
they ever ‘save’ (more than 8,000
would-be migrants drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in just two years!) The idealists’ enthusiasm would be put to
much better use persuading people not to take this route and instead help them improve their lives in-situ. But
that is much more difficult, onerous and risky.
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Smuggler boats off the coast of Libya. Unseaworthy, yes; but then the hope is not to reach Europe in this boat -- just to get a lift on a 'charity ferry'. |
If your real purpose is to feel good about yourself for
helping a few migrants land on a European beach, at no cost to yourself, then knock
yourself out. But if you truly care
about people – rather than pandering to your own narcissism – then you will
recognise that the problem of abject poverty isn’t solved by bringing a few
people (those more proactive, who had the money to pay a people-smuggler and
were lucky enough not to drown) from Zaire to Belgium, or from Romania to
France. That kind of selective
‘assistance’ just makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.
You cannot air-lift all Zaire’s population to Belgium; but
you can (although not easily and immediately, but eventually and with great
difficulty) hand-lift, heart-lift and soul-lift Zairians out of their poverty in
Zaire. If you’re French and thirsty
for justice – then draining Cameroon of talent really isn’t the way to go; shouldn’t
you instead pit your own talents to help fix their country – the one your ancestors
broke?
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