Every American knows the story of the Pilgrims, right? They came to America so they could practice their religion the way they wanted to.
I was just thinking recently about situations where people might migrate for very unusual, or even really wacky, reasons. This could also refer to future history. Obviously, some of these will be more likely than others.
For example, maybe a group of polyamorous people would move to Saudi Arabia where they could legally marry more than one woman.
Or American Evangelicals that move to a cybernetic technocracy...why would they do this, you ask? Simple: The cybernetic technocracy has technology that allows for offspring to be quickly instantiated as thinking, sentient beings after conception. This circumvents any issues regarding abortion, etc. (non-Americans might not know just how big of an issue abortion is here).
I guess another example is people who move to primitive societies to live free from the trappings of modern civilization--although I am unaware of a specific group of people who migrated together to Papua New Guinea or wherever.
Can anyone think of any others that might have happened or might happen in the future? OR situations where this has actually happened?
An interesting example is the Confederados, 10-20k Confederates that fled to Brazil after the Civil War. It's certainly a very unusual situation!
I was just thinking recently about situations where people might migrate for very unusual, or even really wacky, reasons. This could also refer to future history. Obviously, some of these will be more likely than others.
For example, maybe a group of polyamorous people would move to Saudi Arabia where they could legally marry more than one woman.
Or American Evangelicals that move to a cybernetic technocracy...why would they do this, you ask? Simple: The cybernetic technocracy has technology that allows for offspring to be quickly instantiated as thinking, sentient beings after conception. This circumvents any issues regarding abortion, etc. (non-Americans might not know just how big of an issue abortion is here).
I guess another example is people who move to primitive societies to live free from the trappings of modern civilization--although I am unaware of a specific group of people who migrated together to Papua New Guinea or wherever.
Can anyone think of any others that might have happened or might happen in the future? OR situations where this has actually happened?
An interesting example is the Confederados, 10-20k Confederates that fled to Brazil after the Civil War. It's certainly a very unusual situation!