The gift of your birth right

The gift of birth right

Have you ever stopped to consider what it would be like to be a Syrian, or a black person born in the Congo, a rural Chinese or someone living in the Yemen right now. The gift we were given to be born in the UK, or a white person in Africa, an Aussie or Kiwi, that chance to be born to parents who themselves had the gift  through their birth place never to experience anything other than an opportunity to better themselves and certainly an expectation that they would die in their bed of natural causes.
We are the privileged few who carry the supposition that life is something we can enjoy and shape to suite to our special needs. We take for granted that the rule of law will protect us and that work will be sufficiently plentiful and that we will never go hungry. This set of affairs was not something we had any hand in, our childhood assumed that things would be as they are and that life was a civilising experience.

Three quarters of the people who are living today have no such claim to the optimism we have, for them time and living standards stand still and they have to work very hard just to maintain what little they have. Is it any wonder the exodus from the Middle East and Africa is so powerful, is it any wonder the trail of people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala through Mexico trying to get into the USA frightens the Americans into at last understanding that modern day communications is a two edged sword and the passivity of ignorant people is now replaced by a rapacious desire to have some of the lifestyle themselves.
This human transference from an impoverished continent to the wealthy environment on an adjacent land mass was always bound to happen when the information revolution made the world more transparent. What took thousands of years of gradual migration and assimilation is now in the hands of a few unscrupulous traffickers who's sense of moral equivalence is virtually zero. As the flow of people continues or grows the balance of probability will be that where ever you are born in a hundred years from now the life chances will be similar for most people and only the rich will seek to protect their special position by inhabiting tropical islands around which a no go zone will prevent any encroachment from the unwashed masses they used to know as their fellow countrymen.