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人类历史上从未有这么多人这么快地改变了自己的居住地和生活方式。这带来了机会,或者说风险。这是阿拉伯世界革命以及印度、土耳其和南美洲经济繁荣背后鲜为人注意的力量:人类历史上最大规模的人口转移,当下最盛,可能是我们当代最重要和最不为人理解的世界大事。在亚洲、印度次大陆、中东、非洲和拉丁美洲,数亿人正在迅速从他们从事农耕的农村地区迁移到城市——在农村移民最先落脚的杂乱不堪的过渡性居住区,这一转移影响显著,不管是在他们自己国家还是在像美国这样的地方,他们都是移民中最大的群体。
Never before have so many people in human history changed their place of residence and lifestyle. This brings opportunities, or risks. This is a not-so-striking force behind the Arab world revolution and the economic prosperity of India, Turkey and South America: the largest population transfer in human history, nowadays the most prosperous, may be the most important and unintelligible world event of our time. In Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, hundreds of millions of people are rapidly moving from urban areas where they are engaged in farming to urban areas - a disruptive transitional settlement in rural areas where rural migrants first settled Whether in their own country or in places like the United States, they are the largest group of immigrants.