Why do people move to the west, but hate freedoms and modernity?
917925
I think it's weird too. I think they move because they know that the west is a better place to live, more money, better healthcare, better education, and tolerant of religious diversity.\n\nBut some of them, when they arrive, they complain about how immoral it is and how it conflicts with their religious ideals and corrupts their children. \n\nIt's all part of the same package, if you don't want to be 'tainted' by our immorality or have your children growing up in our culture, you shouldn't move here. If you move to another country you should be respectful of their culture. If you don't agree with it don't go.
583173
I doubt seriously if everyone in your country could rapidly find the area of my country where I live.  It is easy to make the kind of blanket statement you just made and make Westerner's seem evil in their ignorance. \n\nThe United States is a fairly large country and pretty hard to miss on the globe!  It would take effort to over look us.\n\nWe have a huge history which we are required to be familiar with before we graduate from school and I would dare say that few know a lot about each of the states in our own country.  Fifty states with thousands of towns and cities in most of them. There is also massive government in Washington that we have to have some idea about too.  \n\nWe do try to educate our children about the countries beyond our borders but we think it a higher priority to know our own government.\n\nOur country accepts people of all faiths and all cultures we welcome them here and we have many diverse cultural enclaves in each of our cities and villages.  \n\nDo you really think you know us if all you see about us is what is on television in our newspapers and in movies?  I have been a citizen of the United States for nearly 60 years and I don't know it all nor do I have hope of doing so.\n\nI have also traveled and lived in several other countries and met people of other cultures. I enjoyed getting to know them and their ways.  It was my pleasure that my work made it possible for me to live for a time usually two to three years in these wonderful places.  I have a difficult time with language but have managed to make myself understood in a few.  \n\nI find it unacceptable when anyone from anywhere makes a blanket statement about an entire population of another country or there own. \n\nIf you are looking for a reason to dislike Westerners as a whole you can find them by making general statements like the one you made.  \n\nHowever, if you are looking to truly know a people, not just Westerners but any people I suggest that you go to them walk in their towns, make friends with them, hold their children on your knee, share food from their table and learn their ways. I have done this and I can tell you this with sure and certain knowledge all over the world in  mud huts and castles our wants, wishes and desires are pretty much the same.\n\nWe all want the freedom to see our children grow, work that will sustain them and us in comfort, a chance to retire after we have done our time as workers.  We rejoice in the smile of our infants and are concerned about the care for our elderly.  The wise know that who ever created this planet drew no borders and that the differences among us are as artificial as those borders.\n\nMay I suggest that the only way to save the world is to think out side the box.  Quit looking for ways to tear the world and divide its peoples and look for what you like about those you do not yet know.  Then the world will be a better place for your visit and you will leave an echo when you leave of peace.  Which when you think about it is an epitaph we can all aspire to.
1000090
Ignorance and greed, in my opinion cause hatred.  I don't know where you are from, but I think most people are good at heart.  Fear is a negative thing too.  People fear what they don't understand.
647344
Fear is a powerful tool... people give up their freedom for it... and if America gives up it's freedom, then it's not America anymore... you can't let fear (of Communism or Terrorism) dictate who you are and how you do things... if you do, then they have won...
872330
every one is gonna hate me but .... i traveled a little bit, live on the east coast i've found that the farter west u go the people get  more like americans,  (self important, money hungry you get the idea)\nthat may be a little to harsh, but i think people on the east coast are a little more easy going.
620305
coz they say things such as the first answerer. fukkin move to russia where you can live in a police state with one view and no dissenters. the ONLY thing we should NOT tolerate in America is people like that who are intolerant of different opinions
424901
people from other nations, especially 3rd world countries find freedoms they don't enjoy at home in the US, such as religious and caste system types of situations, poor stay poor, also alot of opportunity for sucess here
408057
There are stereotypes,there is a stigma,there is xenophobia.Ppl are scared that they are losing their country to immigrants.
956154
It is a fine balance between having a fair country and having a safe country.  We will often sway too far in one direction before coming back - invariably too far in the other direction.\n\nTo hate the british is not a crime and should not be made illegal or indeed stop entry into the UK for anyone, however uncomfortable it makes us feel.  Hopefully, when they're here they will realise that they were wrong and that we're not really that bad!\nThe difficulty comes in deciding who poses a real threat.\n\nAs for the OTT. political correctness - I agree that it's ridiculous.  We should be proud of our country and it's history and realise that people come here often because of them and not despite them!\n\nps. Dove - you sound great!  Come and visit some time!
1077989
I would just as soon leave if I had a good reason to do so.\n\nThere are better places to live but most of them do not allow bums to become resident or citizens.\n\nMy primary complaint is being associated with a gang of ignorant bigots who value superstition, bigotry & ignorance more than advancement, tolerance & enlightenment.\n\nNeither major political party represents me or my interests, they are equally corrupt and there is little anyone can do about it because they both cater to the extremists. And the middle divides, which leaves the extremists in control. \n\nAmerica is a nation in decline and the extremists are steadily drilling holes in her hull while she sinks.
342758
They believe that the rest of the world is too caught up in worldly things, i.e., has strayed away from God.  So, they choose to isolate themselves with the same way of live their ancestors had when they first emigrated from Europe.  \n\nMost of the rest of the world doesn't appreciate this assertation or understand this point, and just thinks it's idiotic to limit oneself to seventeenth-century technology (although there are many loopholes to these rules: they often ride in cars, but don't drive, etc.)
802397
The migration to America wouldn't change this attitude.  One doesn't let go of one's belief system that easily.\n\nIf a westerner went to Asia, one wouldn't walk under a ladder because the cultural context was different.
973245
But of course I see them here everyday criticizing our way of living saying that we are liberals, but yet still stay here because there country is not advanced enough to provide them with enough money to survive and they are still blaming us while they want our standard of living. But I guess that is what you get when you have a lot of ignorant people, and religious fanatics that cannot ameliorate their country on their own because they are too close minded, then they come here to hate a modernize civilization, and they still want to remain barbarians.
873735
No, I know someone that dislikes houses. They like to travel a lot other than stay in one spot. So it's not true.
1074114
I find that there are good things about every culture and horrible things about them as well. People who can't find anything good in any other cultures are xenophobic dopes who need to do some traveling.
818851
If they want to move to Europe they have to accept that they have to fit in with European culture and society.\n\nIf they don't want to do that then they should go somewhere that already has their own culture.
918501
Depends how much better the salary is and how important living in a city is to you. Personally, I hate the small town mentality where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it would take a lot to move me from the city (even though I was originally from the country).