01-24-2015, 04:38 AM
This exodus of Yemeni's did not happen in the last several years when Yemen started to be ranked as dangerous and unstable.
I am working with 60 year old Yemeni's who were born in the UK. In 1965 Aden was after New York and Liverpool the third busiest port on the planet. When Dubai was nothing but a tent with a lone fisherman, Aden had a thriving Duty Free shopping, a large out door cinema and go cart racing course, and was THE place to be in the Middle East. It was the favourite Jet Set hang out of the Western Elite in the Middle East.
Then the Russians took over the South and thousands of Yemeni's went to the West as they had long standing ties there. Singapore was build partly by Yemenis as was Indonesia, with the Alatas family from Hadramout being the most famous as he was their Foreign Minster.
However, most of the population here is the north, which is that whole mountain area going up on the left side on the country if you check on Google Earth, which has or had about 15 million people that time and their port city of Hudeidah, and then that huge aptly named Empty Quarter on the right, that has Hadramout, Marib and also Aden, in it, going up to Oman. So the mountains had all the population and Western back up but other wise fuck all, while the empty side had only about 2 million folks spread all across that huge area, but also all the natural wealth, i.e. Oil, which is the reason I am typing this right now from Marib. Then the cold war came, one side, the north or right side to which also belong Ibb and Taiz, became Western influenced, with the US Embassy in Sana'a since the 60s, and the other side became Russia.
So then they had their war and all became one. During all those 30 and more years, and not only the last 4 since everybody talks about Al Qaeda in Yemen, you had a huge and healthy immigration going out of this country simply to make money. Apparently most Yemeni's going to the States was to be part of your flourishing car manufacturing. So add to that the fact these guys here bread like Rabbits, which clearly upset our Pope, and in the matter of 40 years they have multiplied to 70.000.
All, or most of it, stopped with the USS Cole.
How many Chinese and Italians do you have in America? I guess it's a bit more than 70.000. Why? Because they are there since generations. The only difference they seem to have is that they do not make their money in the States to build their mansions back home but actually enjoy living in the States. Like I said, Ibb and Taiz are build on American made money, and their population is about 2 million each, and these guys love the idea to show of their foreign made wealth in their home country.
And what do you mean with 25% of Yemens total immigrant population? 25% of the population here makes 6 million folks. Even taken from that, 25% still makes 1.5 million. So which 25 do you mean? What you think how many Somali's carry US, UK or Canadian passports?
And I think you are wrong with the immigrants. Actually I believe Native or Real Americans comprise of 15%. The rest is all Immigrants. Just a few generations back and most of you came from somewhere else.
I am working with 60 year old Yemeni's who were born in the UK. In 1965 Aden was after New York and Liverpool the third busiest port on the planet. When Dubai was nothing but a tent with a lone fisherman, Aden had a thriving Duty Free shopping, a large out door cinema and go cart racing course, and was THE place to be in the Middle East. It was the favourite Jet Set hang out of the Western Elite in the Middle East.
Then the Russians took over the South and thousands of Yemeni's went to the West as they had long standing ties there. Singapore was build partly by Yemenis as was Indonesia, with the Alatas family from Hadramout being the most famous as he was their Foreign Minster.
However, most of the population here is the north, which is that whole mountain area going up on the left side on the country if you check on Google Earth, which has or had about 15 million people that time and their port city of Hudeidah, and then that huge aptly named Empty Quarter on the right, that has Hadramout, Marib and also Aden, in it, going up to Oman. So the mountains had all the population and Western back up but other wise fuck all, while the empty side had only about 2 million folks spread all across that huge area, but also all the natural wealth, i.e. Oil, which is the reason I am typing this right now from Marib. Then the cold war came, one side, the north or right side to which also belong Ibb and Taiz, became Western influenced, with the US Embassy in Sana'a since the 60s, and the other side became Russia.
So then they had their war and all became one. During all those 30 and more years, and not only the last 4 since everybody talks about Al Qaeda in Yemen, you had a huge and healthy immigration going out of this country simply to make money. Apparently most Yemeni's going to the States was to be part of your flourishing car manufacturing. So add to that the fact these guys here bread like Rabbits, which clearly upset our Pope, and in the matter of 40 years they have multiplied to 70.000.
All, or most of it, stopped with the USS Cole.
How many Chinese and Italians do you have in America? I guess it's a bit more than 70.000. Why? Because they are there since generations. The only difference they seem to have is that they do not make their money in the States to build their mansions back home but actually enjoy living in the States. Like I said, Ibb and Taiz are build on American made money, and their population is about 2 million each, and these guys love the idea to show of their foreign made wealth in their home country.
And what do you mean with 25% of Yemens total immigrant population? 25% of the population here makes 6 million folks. Even taken from that, 25% still makes 1.5 million. So which 25 do you mean? What you think how many Somali's carry US, UK or Canadian passports?
And I think you are wrong with the immigrants. Actually I believe Native or Real Americans comprise of 15%. The rest is all Immigrants. Just a few generations back and most of you came from somewhere else.