Message from yreynoso

[Anonymous]

Traveling to unfamiliar lands where immigrants potentially will face many socio-economical challenges makes one wonder what are the inner motivations that make people take the risk of leaving their homeland and their loved ones? What it's so attractive and so powerful that move the minds of these people to travel enormous distances and to find company in perfect strangers? It is the case of this Chinese man Hao Shengli who although knew this adventure would be dangerous, he embarked into a hostile territory in Mozambique with the idea of prosper as an investor.

It is admirable and strange to me that people engage in risky adventures where the unknown and unpredictable becomes the daily routine; however, people continue doing it in pro of a personal or economical goal. In both articles, I found similarities between the individuals traveling and the people who must justify their actions and their presence in a foreign land: on one hand, renting a man to either avoid arrange marriage or to impress family members with an individual with ideal characteristics as a boyfriend/husband to be is not a bad idea, until someone finds out the real story. On the other hand, Hao Shengli who dares to travel to Africa to try to establish himself as a business man, finds himself in the middle of risky businesses, dealing with unfriendly community members. Nevertheless, in both cases, the human nature and strong will of the individuals in these articles set an inspiring precedent for all immigrants who are in search of new professional and economical goals.