About immigration

 With the current debate about immigration brewing in America, Japan, and around the world, I couldn't help but think about it. This is a bit of a digression from the religious path I was planning to discuss. (It's hard to go from Christianity to Islam.)

What exactly is an immigrant?

Aren't we immigrants?

Where did we come from?

From God.

That aside, analysis of mitochondrial DNA suggests that modern humans originated from a single African woman. Mitochondria are inherited only maternal-line, and can be traced back to a single woman. She was called Eve, and she apparently lived in East Africa.

In other words, Homo sapiens' roots are in East Africa. From there, humanity spread throughout the world. In other words, everyone except Africans is an immigrant. After all, even those who shout anti-immigration have immigrant roots. So, what's the difference?

"We came here earlier."

That's it. In other words, they arrived relatively early. Whether someone is an immigrant or not is not an absolute measure, but merely a relative one.

Caucasian Americans, of course, are immigrants from Europe. From a Native American perspective, they're immigrants. There's a strong theory that modern-day Japanese people, too, are descendants of people with roots in Mongolia, who arrived via the Korean Peninsula into the southern Jomon people. (The details aren't yet known, though.)

And while the Japanese are currently talking about immigrants, not long ago they were also sending out large numbers of immigrants to Hawaii, Brazil, and other regions.

Ethnic groups also often migrate. There was the Great Migration of the Germanic peoples, the Turkish people who migrated from what is now the Uyghur region, and northern peoples who traveled south as Vikings. Native Americans also traveled from Asia to the Americas via the Bering Sea, reaching the southern tip of South America.

So, humans do migrate, don't they?

But what about other living things?

Plants don't move on their own, but they spread their seeds on the wind or by being carried by birds, expanding their habitats. Plants migrate, too. And, of course, animals do too. Some fish migrate thousands of kilometers, and birds migrate freely from the northern to southern hemispheres.

Living things migrate, too.

Since the dawn of life, it has seized every opportunity to expand its habitat. It seeks to expand its range to as much space as possible, and as far away as possible. This is a basic desire of life. It is an essential strategy for survival. The desire to migrate is rooted in the species' instinct for survival.

So, just as all living things seek to migrate, humans will continue to migrate. The drive to expand one's own habitat is based on a life instinct for survival.

And so, later arrivals encounter those that arrived earlier.

Is there nothing but a struggle for survival?

I don't think so. Competition and interaction arise simultaneously, and from these interactions new things are born. These new things are superior to the former two. They are evolving. And in this way, new things born one after another increase diversity, which leads to new interactions, giving rise to even newer, more superior things, and further evolution.

If only purebreds are cultivated, genetic deterioration is inevitable and the species is destined for extinction. Without the addition of blood from other sources, they deteriorate. They cannot survive. They lose the struggle for survival.

It's clear which will win, diversity or purebreds. This is the law of life, so likes and dislikes won't change anything. I remember writing before that God loves diversity. That's why, despite the struggle for survival, this world has not become a world of only a few species that have survived the competition. It's my impression, seeing that the world of life is still filled with amazing diversity. It's the same in the human world, isn't it?

In the end, I've gone back to the topic of religion, but

God does love diversity after all.

It's because He wants us to survive. He doesn't want us to perish. He wants us to prosper. And because they want to make us happy.

Guided by love and mercy

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