I’m from in the US and am naïve, but what is bizarre about that system?
Speaking of bizarre, why are there zero barriers for a Finnish person to move to Portugal, but major barriers for a Brazilian, culturally more proximate due Portuguese colonialism to do the same? Why are there zero barriers for a Greek or Estonian to live and work in Spain but tough immigration rules for the spawn of their 15+ latin american colonies, who speak the same language and have the same religion?
Insurance works when a large group of people pay premiums to protect against some condition that has not happened yet. If you could sign up for a fire insurance once your house is burning, the system would collapse.
For similar reasons, modern states need to keep poor people out since, on average, they will be a large net burden on their welfare systems.
Out of these 11% only a third were from EU (including Great Britain), 6.5% of the foreign nationals were from Latin America, taking 5 out of the 15 countries from which most Immigrants come from, and the biggest year to year increase in immigration is from Venezuela (39.8%), Colombia (31.3%) and Honduras (29.4%).
Asian countries are also notoriously hard to get citizenship in.
> Why are there zero barriers for a Greek or Estonian to live and work in Spain but tough immigration rules for the spawn of their 15+ latin american colonies, who speak the same language and have the same religion?
Could be worth exploring for Spain and Portugal.
There's a "transitive property" issue, however. It'd be hard to do this without, effectively, adding the former Spanish and Portuguese empires to the EU.
This would also run into the Monroe Doctrine, if you carried it far enough.
But it is an interesting idea.
If you are not aware, then you haven't looked very hard:
> Subsection 3(2) of the Citizenship Act states that Canadian citizenship by birth in Canada – including Canadian airspace and territorial waters – is granted to a child born in Canada even if neither parent was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident except if either parent was a diplomat, in service to a diplomat, or employed by an international agency of equal status to a diplomat. However, if neither parent was a diplomat, the nationality or immigration status of the parents do not matter.[28]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#Continental_North_Ame...
Children born in France only get French citizenship from birth if at least one parent either is a French citizen or was born in France. Otherwise, there are various processes for them to acquire citizenship later in life if they spend enough of their childhood in France.
In contrast, almost any child born in the US, regardless of the nationality or immigration status of the parents, is a citizen automatically from birth. The only exceptions are children of foreign diplomats and (hypothetically) children of members of an invading army. Even if the parents are visiting as tourists and the child leaves two weeks after birth and never returns, it's still a citizen.
British law is somewhere in between the two- a child born in the UK is a citizen if at least one parent has "settled status" (in other words is a citizen, permanent resident, or otherwise has an unrestricted right to live in the UK).
Imagine being a sperm donor, but in dozens of countries.
Now your progeny will have a large range of citizenship, and locations, from which they may thrive during disaster.
Better than sailors and ports, for one can travel, experience sunny and interesting destinations, make a deposit, and... success!
I see a new startup, which combines cruise ships and pre-arranged donation instructions / locations.
Looking for a co-founder...
Though, if the goal is to maximize the donor's entertainment, I don't see why we're using artificial insemination.
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Have you ever seen a stud bull get shipped to a farm?
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I feel this could end very badly. Like,
Form AirBnB.
...many years later...
All real estate is unaffordable.
Like, there'd be throngs of George Clooneys and Barack Obamas with weird recessive diseases.
And a bizarre fan-club in China of Vladimir Putin babymommas.
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Didn't Stephen Colbert have a product like this? (I swear, if it had been real, some people would have bought and used it.)
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We'd recreate that unexplained prehistoric situation, preserved in the genetic record, where a population bottleneck shows up only on the Y chromosome.