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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

India the country is not poor as fuck. It's a nuclear power. Even after the west stripped it for profit, it still has absurds amount of wealth and resources.

So does pretty much every middle east country...and it's consolidated at the top.

The other big difference is that while the power and money is consolidated to a segment of the population, that segment is very large compared to most countries.

Ratio wise, it's probably less than you think. Remember India has 1.4 billion people.

And overall, you have the direction wrong. The middle east doesn't export these people. The west accepts them as refugees. But because of the wealth of india, their refugees rarely get accepted. So the religous nutjobs still exist (I've worked with some), they just stay in country. They stone their own people for being gay, or refusing to marry their rapist and all that.

There are a good number of people from India all over the west though. I do agree that a lot of the EU takes in refugees at the expense of their own people though.