Can Migration Be Construed As Development for Chin People?
21 August 2010: Chinland is a developing land, although the pace of its advancement is so slow that it is yet nowhere near to compete with other developed nations. A question could be raised as to why our development is so slow? Is this because they have been pervaded by a dreamy languor? As subsistence farmers, Chin people usually work from dawn to dark with sweat running from our foreheads to heels. According to the United Nations more than 70% of Chin people live under internationally defined poverty line. Today, the world is classified into two categories as the First and Third World countries. If there were such a concept as a Fourth World, then, Chinland would have been designated as such a member. One possible reason is that the number of Chin professional workers remaining in Chinland has been decreasing after a mass migration triggered by various reasons since the early 1990s. Worst still, even those educated Chin people, who want to build their homeland in all aspects of deve
