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81. Firstly, the world is becoming smaller in that information
and travel have undergone such rapid development as to defy any prediction. Transistor radios and television have penetrated the developing countries and have sparked an awareness of
conditions existing in the more affluent regions of our planet.
The industrialized countries are seen to be lands of milk and
honey where technological progress reduces man's toil and where the standard of living ensures a life-style which is incomparably superior to one's own. Needless perhaps to say, the picture transmitted may be slightly distorted. Immigrants
are sometimes taken aback by the sub-standard housing and dole
queues which await them after their having nurtured a mental
image of a fulfilled life amid fine buildings of the capital
city and a profusion of consumer goods.
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Secondly, when human rights are violated or political
changes take place, those who become the victims are encouraged
by the thought that their plight arouses sympathy abroad and
that they will be given an understanding welcome. This is
especially true when the ideology of the new régime is directly opposed by countries to which emigration may be sought, who may
give expression to their feelings of opposition over their
overseas radio networks. Where there has been previous contact
with nationals of those countries, the attraction may be even
stronger.
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institutions of the North are viewed as
particularly by minorities.
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The North tends to publicize its attachment to the principles
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and publicly
condemns dictatorial régimes.
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