The world has truly become a global village. With the advent of Facebook, you no longer need to step out of your gate and walk across to the neighbour to catch up on the stories in the neighbourhood... In fact, you don't even have to watch Desperate Housewives to hear know what's happening in the streets...!
All you can do, is switch on your PC, log onto Facebook, and wallah...!, you can see what happens in other parts of the world...
However, since long before the advent of Facebook, there has been a special breed of people that decided to earn their sustenance in other countries, far away from home. The problem with this breed of people, mostly highly skilled, they learnt their trades in the home countries, paid for in most instances by their governments. Government invests huge amount of resources into the development of the population, in the hope that the population will in turn spend their collective know how and sweat and build the economy of the country.
This is normally how things pan out, except for this breed of people called Expats.
No one can begin to pretend to understand why people leave the comfort of their home countries, travel abroad, to work in an economy and culture different to one's own... yet the vast majority of Expats undertake this journey in a completely voluntary manner.
The question is...is it Unpatriotic for expats to venture abroad, in search of a better future (read more money) when clearly their home countries can do with their skills...?
The US imports huge amounts of Indian expats, yet the US contributes considerable numbers to the Expat populace. Same for Canada, Britain, Germany and many of the EU states.
South African Expats are generally highly regarded for the skills and work ethic, and without fail, these South Africans can be put to good use in their mother country.
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