Ong: people form illogical attachments to what is familiar over what is potentially better. Most people want to live near where they were born. Only in extreme conditions will people flee their homeland en masse. Loss of industry, exhaustion of local resources, war, unrestrained criminal elements, etc.
Recall a couple years ago when wuf was saying that moving to another country was "unviable?" It's not economically unviable, not prohibitive in hardship of travel unviable, so what was unviable? It was my assertion that people would not have a visceral attachment to their childhood homes. He was right in that regard. Even if it's practically viable for people to move to anywhere in the world at any time, exercising their preference for whatever gov't in that regard, it is impractical to assume that the value of one's homeland is nil.
In general, people would rather fight to the death to keep whatever gov't is in place than to learn to speak a new language, in an otherwise effectively identical gov't.
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As for your assertion that people whom live in cultures different to yours would definitely swarm to be a part of your culture...
well...
Can I just say ethnocentrism and leave it at that? 'Cause someone who's a successful businessperson in Nairobi, Kenya probably thinks it's more likely that you would gladly leave rural Britain to live in a thriving metropolis in a tropical paradise.
Nairobi, Kenya
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