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http://javascript<b></b>:AdClicked(clickLineVarName8366284505);<!-- End Forumprop advertisement --> <!-- Adspace: 3in1kopitiam Sched: 0 Server: WEB140 --><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"></TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>kojakbt_89 <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>8:08 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"></TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>30462.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>How uncontrolled immigration can destroy a nation: A comparative case study of the Korean kingdoms of Balhae (²³º£) and Silla (ÐÂÁ_)
March 23, 2010 by admin
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OPINION
Running out of excuses to defend its disastrous liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies, PAP leaders have been resorting to the inappropriate use of historical examples to showcase their own ignorance.
PAP MP Dr Ong Seh Hong quoted the example of Tang China during a parliamentary speech on 13 March 2010 to lend support to the PAP¡¯s open-door policy to foreigners.
He claimed that Tang China¡¯s propserity was due largely to an open-door policy and tolerance. However, he forgot to point out the fact that though there was a sizable number of foreigners living in China, they remained a minority in China and most of them were traders and not immigrant who planted their roots there.
As history had shown, the Han Chinese were able to assimilate other ethnic groups successfully by their sheer numbers and cultural superiority.
It took only less than 100 years for the 20 million or so ethnic Manchus living in northeast China to become fully assimilated into Han Chinese that they are hardly any of them left now who can speak or write the Manchu language.
Singapore has let in too many foreigners within too short a period of time such that there is no time at all for them to be integrated properly into local society.
Besides, Singaporeans have less a racial or cultural identity than the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans and it would not be easy to assimilate them especially when there are so many of them here causing them to congregate within their own communities.
Uncontrolled immigration can easily destroy a nation as exemplified by the Korean empire of Balhae (²³º£).
Balhae (698 AD ¨C 926 AD) was founded in 698 AD from the remnants of the Korean state of Gorguryeo (¸ß¾äû) after it was conquered by a joint invasion from Tang China and Silla (ÐÂÁ_), another Korean state which occupied the Korean peninsula.
Balhae became a major empire in Northeast Asia and occupied southern parts of Manchuria, Russia¡¯s Primorsky Krai, and the northern part of the Korean peninsula.
This area was a volatile region with several ethnic tribes of which the Koreans were one of them. Due to historical animosities between Balhae and Silla, the Balhae kings banned the inflow of Korean immigrants from Silla and relied on immigrants from other ethnic groups instead.
(Balhae blamed Silla for ¡°conspiring¡± with Tang China to destroy its predecessor state Gorguryeo)
As Balhae was a newly founded country, it adopted an open-door policy to immigrants from neighboring kingdoms and tribes including the Khitan (Æõµ¤) and Malgal (ì…íH).
Large numbers of Khitans and Malgals were allowed into Balhae and the Koreans became an ethnic minority in their own country in less than a hundred years.
Unlike the Koreans, the Khitans and Malgals were Tungesic nomads and it was impossible to integrate them fully into Korean society though the Balhae kings had implemented policies to assimilate them such as allowing inter-racial marriages between the two groups.
While the Koreans retained control of the central government and aristocracy, the administration and military became dominated by the Khitans and Malgals which soon led to social conflicts and civil wars between them.
During the last years of the Balhae kingdom, it was wrecked by endless internal turmoils, ethnic strifes and civil wars between the various races in the empire and it was eventually conquered by the Khitan kingdom of Liao in 926 AD.
Like Singapore, Balhae was a country built out of nowhere. Though its southern portion was a remnant of Gorguryeo, its northern territory were entirely virgin lands not ruled by any state before.
The Balhae kings realized that their fledging nation would not stand a chance against its powerful neighbor China or its more populous Korean cousin Silla if it did not open its door to immigrants to increase its population.
Unfortunately, they failed to appreciate the fact that while immigrants may spur economic growth and increase a country¡¯s military strength within a short period of time, social unrest and strife will ensue if the newcomers are not wholly integrated into local society.
Though Balhae was able to achieve rapid growth and prosperity a few decades after its founding due to the influx of immigrants, it sowed the seeds for its eventual demise.
Balhae was the largest and perhaps one of the richest states in the history of Korea, but also its shortest-lived, existing for barely more than 200 years when compared to other more ethnically and culturally homogenous states like Gorguryeo (700 + years), Baekje (700 +), Silla (900 +), Goryeo (300 +) and Joseon (600 +).
Silla (53 BC ¨C 935 AD) was a nation of immigrants like Balhae and Singapore too, built by gradual conquest and assimilation of neighboring statelets and tribes but at a much controlled pace than Balhae which explained its political longevity of nearly a thousand years.
[Three Kingdom era of Korea 53 AD - 668 AD, Source: Wikipedia]
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March 23, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/03/23/how-uncontrolled-immigration-can-destroy-a-nation-the-case-study-of-the-korean-empire-of-balhae-%e6%b8%a4%e6%b5%b7/
OPINION
Running out of excuses to defend its disastrous liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies, PAP leaders have been resorting to the inappropriate use of historical examples to showcase their own ignorance.
PAP MP Dr Ong Seh Hong quoted the example of Tang China during a parliamentary speech on 13 March 2010 to lend support to the PAP¡¯s open-door policy to foreigners.
He claimed that Tang China¡¯s propserity was due largely to an open-door policy and tolerance. However, he forgot to point out the fact that though there was a sizable number of foreigners living in China, they remained a minority in China and most of them were traders and not immigrant who planted their roots there.
As history had shown, the Han Chinese were able to assimilate other ethnic groups successfully by their sheer numbers and cultural superiority.
It took only less than 100 years for the 20 million or so ethnic Manchus living in northeast China to become fully assimilated into Han Chinese that they are hardly any of them left now who can speak or write the Manchu language.
Singapore has let in too many foreigners within too short a period of time such that there is no time at all for them to be integrated properly into local society.
Besides, Singaporeans have less a racial or cultural identity than the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans and it would not be easy to assimilate them especially when there are so many of them here causing them to congregate within their own communities.
Uncontrolled immigration can easily destroy a nation as exemplified by the Korean empire of Balhae (²³º£).
Balhae (698 AD ¨C 926 AD) was founded in 698 AD from the remnants of the Korean state of Gorguryeo (¸ß¾äû) after it was conquered by a joint invasion from Tang China and Silla (ÐÂÁ_), another Korean state which occupied the Korean peninsula.
Balhae became a major empire in Northeast Asia and occupied southern parts of Manchuria, Russia¡¯s Primorsky Krai, and the northern part of the Korean peninsula.
This area was a volatile region with several ethnic tribes of which the Koreans were one of them. Due to historical animosities between Balhae and Silla, the Balhae kings banned the inflow of Korean immigrants from Silla and relied on immigrants from other ethnic groups instead.
(Balhae blamed Silla for ¡°conspiring¡± with Tang China to destroy its predecessor state Gorguryeo)
As Balhae was a newly founded country, it adopted an open-door policy to immigrants from neighboring kingdoms and tribes including the Khitan (Æõµ¤) and Malgal (ì…íH).
Large numbers of Khitans and Malgals were allowed into Balhae and the Koreans became an ethnic minority in their own country in less than a hundred years.
Unlike the Koreans, the Khitans and Malgals were Tungesic nomads and it was impossible to integrate them fully into Korean society though the Balhae kings had implemented policies to assimilate them such as allowing inter-racial marriages between the two groups.
While the Koreans retained control of the central government and aristocracy, the administration and military became dominated by the Khitans and Malgals which soon led to social conflicts and civil wars between them.
During the last years of the Balhae kingdom, it was wrecked by endless internal turmoils, ethnic strifes and civil wars between the various races in the empire and it was eventually conquered by the Khitan kingdom of Liao in 926 AD.
Like Singapore, Balhae was a country built out of nowhere. Though its southern portion was a remnant of Gorguryeo, its northern territory were entirely virgin lands not ruled by any state before.
The Balhae kings realized that their fledging nation would not stand a chance against its powerful neighbor China or its more populous Korean cousin Silla if it did not open its door to immigrants to increase its population.
Unfortunately, they failed to appreciate the fact that while immigrants may spur economic growth and increase a country¡¯s military strength within a short period of time, social unrest and strife will ensue if the newcomers are not wholly integrated into local society.
Though Balhae was able to achieve rapid growth and prosperity a few decades after its founding due to the influx of immigrants, it sowed the seeds for its eventual demise.
Balhae was the largest and perhaps one of the richest states in the history of Korea, but also its shortest-lived, existing for barely more than 200 years when compared to other more ethnically and culturally homogenous states like Gorguryeo (700 + years), Baekje (700 +), Silla (900 +), Goryeo (300 +) and Joseon (600 +).
Silla (53 BC ¨C 935 AD) was a nation of immigrants like Balhae and Singapore too, built by gradual conquest and assimilation of neighboring statelets and tribes but at a much controlled pace than Balhae which explained its political longevity of nearly a thousand years.
[Three Kingdom era of Korea 53 AD - 668 AD, Source: Wikipedia]
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damn right. should leave spore island alone so that the whole island can look like pulau ubin.
