This is one way to try to keep r-strategists out of your country, but probably not as effective:
Angry Colombians have demonstrated their frustration at the growing numbers of Venezuelan refugees seeking refuge in their country by dousing them with rotten urine.
Venezuelan outlet El Nacional details the life of Luz Amparo Durán León, who claims to have slept in urine-soaked sheets after people threw two pots of it at her from a building. Durán is staying in Cucutá, a town on the Venezuelan border in Colombia.
“They threw two pots of rotten urine from a second floor of the building,” she said. “Where have we come to? It makes me sad.”…
Tensions between Venezuelan migrants are boiling over in cities heavily affected by the migration crisis, with locals fearing high levels of unemployment, a rise in crime, and potentially, the undercutting of wages…
An estimated 550,000 Venezuelans have emigrated to Colombia in the past two to three years, with the government pledging to meet the humanitarian challenge by providing food, medicine, and education for young people.
First, you are attempting to utilize disgust reflexes, which are weak in r-strategists. r-strategists are most afraid of violence, then shortage, then everything else.
So throwing urine on them is preferable to them, compared to facing the starvation and violence back in their homeland. Their amygdala sees being fed, and not being killed on one hand, and washing off urine on the other, and when it performs the relevance weighing, it is no contest. They stay.
The only thing which will drive them home is similar conditions in their new land compared to those back home. Then the issue becomes familiarity, and the increased safety of being in their own nation with their own citizens, as opposed to being an outsider in a violent land. The amygdala will relevance weigh, and decide that with all other things equal, returning home is less total amygdala because of familiarity and social connections.
Add a small payment to the migrant in return for heading back, and you can drive them all home quite fast once the festivities begin.
Everything has to be viewed in terms of amygdala and relevance-weighing.
Most of the world is better off without democracy. If any king were as incompetent as Maduro, the king of Colombia would invade, scatter Venezuela’s starving army, install his brother on the throne, and send the grateful refugees home.
If rich countries threaten an embargo on coffee and bananas unless the king steps down and holds elections, the king shall say, fine, we’ll tear out our coffee bushes and plant coca!
They voted for Communism, they don’t get to quit it.
They didn’t want a monarchy to protect them.