Is that sometimes the very oppression people are fleeing they are more likely to bring to their destination.
People from the Indian subcontinent sometimes flee stiffling social rules like arranged marriages and caste systems but then they bring those things to their chosen country once they petition for enough relatives to move there.
So, the originals may not bring the shit, but the secondary immigrants bring it.
Usually places that value choice over obligations and logic over traditions tend to be more prosperous as well, so that is also a lure for the "second wave" immigrants, rather than just fleeing the part of their country that makes it a total shithole, they instead flee the result of being a shithole and bring shithold causing contagion with them.
So, be careful New Zealand.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/new-zeala ... ate-there/Obama loving Muffy and Biff will love to do the Haka (which is cool as hell btw) and contribute to New Zealand society while bringing over inoffensive and enjoyable Americanisms over with them. But that could be a gateway for Muffy's cousin Cletus and his Maskless Jugband Gun Hootnanny and Revival Tent come there and start to try to Trump the place up and make it like the place Americans fled in the first place.
If I was NZ Intelligence I would set up a Troll Farm ASAP with the purpose of getting our wackjobs afraid to show up there.
You can hire me too. I will, of course, declare it with the State Department as a registered Foreign Agent, asside from keeping our lowlifes here, I would not work against the interests or security of my country.
Lemme know if you need a CV.