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[ghost]

The Philippines, where ghost spends a lot of time when not working, is ranked as the most "friendly country" in the world toward new migrants.....with Thailand at the bottom in friendliness toward new migrants.

Taiwan - another country where ghost taught and studied Mandarin (2005-06) also ranked very poorly in its treatment of new migrants.

Turkey, had a surprisingly poor ranking in the tables, with regard to their friendliness toward new migrants (not to be confused with tourists).

Check this out.

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=60774

ghost

[Tiger Beer]

wonder where Korea would rank.

[mthood]

[jimma]

The results of the Gallup poll obviously don't make much sense to expats like myself, who was frequently harrassed and even spit at in Korea simply for being a foreigner, and yet never in five years and thousands of conversations with Turks have I heard immigration "most negatively regarded." There is less xenophobia in Turkey than anywhere else I have ever been (which includes almost every Western nation). Only intra-national prejudice exists---you are met with open arms everywhere, as long as you aren't Armenian, or from Kurdistan.

I wonder who they asked in Turkey, and what the questions were.

[Mr. Kalgukshi]

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