56) Foreigners, women and other marginalized groups Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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Foreigners, women and other marginalized groups The Babylonians abducted some of the Jews to Babylon because they needed workers. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and later Turks and Europeans kidnapped people from different regions in the name of their god, brought them to other countries and sold them as slaves. For centuries, this type of labour trade was one of the most lucrative kinds of business. At the time of the various migrations, entire ethnic groups set off to look for new livelihoods elsewhere. Later, in the more stable kingdoms, rulers, for example, invited thousands of peasants to move to their country to cultivate the fallow land or to transform forests and moorland into fertile fields because they hoped that this would generate tax revenue. Peter the Great summoned Western European experts to help him build his modern state. The Russian tsars relied on the knowledge and organizational expertise of the German order of knights when the area of ​​the order was conquered by Russia. Maria Theresa settled Saxons and Swabs in poorly populated areas in Hungary. The problem of overpopulation in Western Europe in the 19th century was solved because these people emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, Africa, but above all to South and North America. After the Second World War, states like Germany called in migrants from southern Europe and Turkey to alleviate the shortage of workforce. Saudi Arabia employs Asians, who send part of their earnings back to their home countries to support their families having stayed at home. The coexistence and work of different ethnic groups and cultures did not always go smoothly. Pogroms often occurred when the immigrants, for example, the Jews were too successful, or, for example, as the Gypsies were not successful enough. The Catholic Kings in Spain drove the Moors to North Africa, a great many Jews went to Holland, and hundreds of thousands of Gypsies were shipped to South America. A country or state was successful if it was able to incorporate the skills of all different kinds of social and ethnic groups. The Persian Empire united Asia Minor and Egypt to the Indus. The Ottoman Empire did the same 1500 years later. The Middle Kingdom, or China, slowly integrated all peoples from the Chinese Sea to the Gobi Desert and from the Himalayas to the Siberian steppes, and was even able to let the invading Mongols rule first and then make them Chinese because of them taking over the Chinese culture. The Romans also slowly integrated the different countries into their economic system. When the Mongols advanced till Hungary and devastated everything that got in their way, it was no longer Mongols for the most part, but the various peoples, who were first overrun and plundered by this avalanche and then took part in it and began looting themselves. Due to the Common Wealth, London is still one of the largest banking and stock exchange centres. All of these countries first conquered and then sought tolerance, agreement and balance to work together for the benefit of all. Only those countries, such as Hungary, in which nationalism, intolerance and racism rule from Kossuth to Horthy to Orbán, do not want to achieve any real success. In the beginning, the success of a society consisted in the wealth and pompous way of life of the ruler, head, king or demigod. The next criterion was the aristocracy that surrounded him and that he could maintain. However, Adam Smith recognized that a nation's prosperity and success is based on the number of consumers. He therefore advocated that ordinary people should have more than just the subsistence level. In the 20th century, women became the target of the consumer industry and heavy industry followed. The 21st century will be the beginning of the children's age; kids as consumers. Only if all parts of society, people who consider themselves to be the elite, middle class, lower classes, those living with physical or mental disabilities, foreigners, women, children or other marginalized groups are integrated into the economic cycle and can act as consumers when even those who consider themselves the elite have recognized that a product must not only be manufactured cheaply and well but also sold in order to make profit, only then a society will be really successful. Back to list!

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