Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Immigration.
Immigration is how countries improve their society through skills and abilities that new arrivals bring. But in recent times immigration has become a hot potato the world over. It’s now seen as a dirty word and a political challenge to manage. It’s a key issue to everyday people and so this week we are going to put our SuperMind Saturday hats on to what can be done.
- Modern immigration reflects greater economic need by immigrants. Seeking a better life many take extreme risks to better their lives in search of a more secure financial future. This has led to wealthier nations inundated by would be settlers. The world then has become a money driven planet of which this reflects it. How can we stop making everything about money?
- That desire for greater and greater financial strength led to European borders being opened in ways never previously seen in history. This started the great immigration flood that continues to this day. Immigration spread far and wide and has caused increased crime and unrest in many nations. It’s too late to go back, so how can we go forwards? How do countries know who to permit entry to?
- The big question is coming – one we have not ever been able to properly and fairly answer. When is a country full and who or what decides this? Can this be measured in a fair and reasonable statistic?
- Observation – the public image of immigrants is poor. That is all down to the media. They only feature stories of illegal immigration and negative stories and information. It is like propaganda. People can’t get a balanced view on the subject until there are as many stories to see and read of immigrants who have made huge contributions to their communities. The media are negatively magnifying everything too much.
- I’m going to come at the last question from a different angle. Immigration, immigrants. Two words that conjure up the wrong meaning in the public’s minds. We know changing words can change our whole opinion and approach to something. What word or phrase then could be used instead of these to alter our viewpoint in a more humane way? One that removes all the current anger, fear, hate, and misunderstanding?
I feel there are so many other points I could raise for your mind to consider on this. But, it’s 5 only so that’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers wrapped up. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.