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Would the economy collapse or thrive? Would there be countries happy to accept the deportees? How would they even deport so many people?

Curious about your thoughts on the hypothetical.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As someone who's Chinese American, I'll have to find a new country. I mean... winnie the pooh isn't gonna want me back, I don't even have citizenship in PRC anymore. I mean, I highly doubt they want 5 million westernized people back so quickly.

The first choice I would try is go to Canada, they have a decent ethnic Chinese population and they are English Speaking, so I'll probably fit right in. But IDK if they'll be accepting refugees, since the rest of the US non-whites are also expelled abd many would probably go for Canada. Next option is Australia. Then Singapore. Then maybe Taiwan. Wait actually nvm, China is gonna invade Taiwan since the US would have collapsed. EU could also be another option to asylum.

I honesly don't know where the Black American population is gonna go. I mean, the continent of Africa has been divided so much by European colonialization, that its very hard to track back to an ancestry origin.

Hispanic/Latino Americans would probably go to Spanish speaking South American countries or Mexico.

Also the world could be at risk, since the US would end up as a war zone.. Imagine the KKK or other neo-nazi groups gaining access to a nuclear silo...

I think the world is just gonna end up covered in mushroom clouds after a nuke gets lanuched into Russia or China because nazis want racial purification.

So TLDR: One misplaces nuke in the hands of white supremaciat groups and it escalates into Nuclear WW3.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The EU is already doing its best to attract scientists from the US, so if you're educated, you might have good chances, especially if you're willing to learn a new language. Probably you could get your family into the EU too.

I honesly don't know where the Black American population is gonna go. I mean, the continent of Africa has been divided so much by European colonialization, that its very hard to track back to an ancestry origin.

This is one thing I'm kinda hopeful about actually. The continent is really large and spreading out 100 million people across it could work out quite well. Black culture is already pretty popular in parts of Africa, and Black women in the US are the biggest group of people getting degrees, if I'm not mistaken. It could be massive brain drain from the US to the advantage of African countries.

Also the world could be at risk, since the US would end up as a war zone.. Imagine the KKK or other neo-nazi groups gaining access to a nuclear silo...

Indeed. I do wonder how quickly they'd go from "we're the best, we don't need y'all" to "alright, give us everything you got!".

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder how quickly the US would lose the technical know-how to maintain nuclear missiles in that scenario.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

russia is still somewhat maintains them, i suspect they will be exclusively paying them a better wage and ignore most sectors.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

only if your a PHD holder in specific niche, not so good for those with only a BS or MS in stems. Also MDs with specific specialties too.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ccp is also pretty difficult, since they require people to renounce thier citizenship of birth, and ccp being pretty paranoid is pretty hostile to immigrants. unless you a rich white foreigner(china loves white people that serves several purpose, propaganda and use as the face for "companies" to make them more legitimate.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I guess you didn't read my comment. I'm Chinese American, I was born in Mainland China. I had PRC citizenship until my mother became a US Citizen and I derived US citizenship from my mother's naturalization.

I never formally renounced PRC citizenship (althought I didn't really cared if I lost it at that time, I had zero attachments to China). Its just that under current PRC laws, anyone who acquires foreign citizenship automatically lose PRC citizenship.

But I really don't want to be in China, I'm not gonna be able to watch most western content that I'm so used to (because of the firewall) so I'm just gonna be depressed af and probably kms. Like imagine you don't have all the usual entertainment that you have for the rest of your forseeable life.

Also I'd have to relearn the hardest language in the world.

I mean I guess if the US and China goes to war, and if the US already denaturalized me, I would then no longer have any legal or moral obligations in terms of allegiance to the US (this is hypotheticaly speaking... I'm currently still attached to the US constitution, just not the current administration), so I could theoreticaly just re-learn Mandarin and then I could put my knowledge of English to good use and maybe be a translator/interpretor? I mean I'm essentially a native speaker in both, well... minus like 90% of the Chinese volcabulary that I didn't learn because I immigrated to the US when I was little. But with AI translatoons, humans translatots seem to be obsolete. So idk, its very hard to find a job in China, which is why my parents came to the US in the first place. And also better human rights and freedoms of course (this was long before the current administrstion, for context)

But then again, I'd look for Canada, Australia, and Singapore before I even think of the last resort options like... CCP-Controlled China 😖