26 June 2026

Xenophobia vs Indigenization

Intro: This is me, a while back. I mention rejecting some foreigner's application to live in a country because I understand that some societies may be resentful of immigrants. And if your land has xenophobic individuals, I suggest there be an anti-xenophobia campaign or simply not allow immigrants to enter your country as a foreign policy. 

I am not very xenophobic, I just don't have the time. Sure, I believe that a country's resources can be strained by mass influx of immigrants but that's what refugee camps are for. I believe that a land should simply have refugee camps by borders & process foreigners on the borders, seas & airports. I do not believe that South Africa is bursting at the seams brimful of foreigners & I wouldn't want it to be. If a country is suffering from an influx of foreigners, it simply means the border management systems are not up to scratch or they did not plan for the population growth they allowed. 

My solutions would be:
1) Constantly guarded & double-fenced (with barbed wire) borders. 
2) Large refugee camps for undocumented/illegal immigrants on the land's borders. 
3) Indigenization of naturalised citizens.

I believe that a country can plan for it's population by building high-rise flats & building infrastructure (by even using it's massive population as builders) for it's growing population. 

The reason we should indigenize naturalised citizens from foreign lands comes from the ancient African custom of unhostile foreigners being seen as a potential extension of a nation & them becoming part of a national heritage rather than being chased away from go. For example, Zulu people come from all corners of Africa & came together to build a nation over the centuries & millenia. If we apply the same concept of indigenizing foreign names & allowing foreigners to learn the national language, we simply strengthen a nation (see blog on National Unity).

There are lands far more densely populated than South Africa but build systems to accommodate their population. I'd understand the complaint of strained resources if South Africa was one of the Top 10 most densely populated countries in the world but it is not. So, affordable high-rise flats, more educational institutions, more agricultural produce & strengthened border corps should more than accommodate a growing population as well as create jobs. We simply need some population planning strategies & systems to accommodate a national population so we don't have people who feel a foreigner took his/her job somehow. 

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