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Nathan Parrish's comment, October 11, 2012 12:51 AM

Seth, I was shocked as well, but the credit goes to my students who have seemed to use some 3rd party website that automatically "views" another site from what they told me this morning. I emailed my class to start visiting my scoop.it site, which I have just created a few weeks ago and they felt the need to help boost my view count. I teach 1 class of APHG (some years up to 5) in the East Bay of Northern California and have been a lifelong geographer. The content I scoop is all me, through my various searches online. I came to scoop.it to begin to collaborate with other APHG teachers and share the content with my students. I feel a bit embarrassed that my site was discovered this way and hopefully the scoops I provide can make up for my student's bad sense of humor.

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Meg Conheeny's comment, April 26, 3:09 PM

Immigration is a largely talked about topic, and many people have different views on the subject. Britain so badly doesn’t want these immigrants that they are willing to give their country a bad image just to push them away. It seems like they are happy with their people and population that they don’t want to see the population rise and they don’t want to give ad to anyone. The U.K isn't the only place that is trying to lower the migrants crossing over. Many places have strict immigration policies and don't want to push the countries population over the top.

Brittnie Helgerson's comment, April 28, 10:41 AM

When first reading the title of the article, I thought it seemed a bit harsh to just deter people from moving to the U.K. However, after reading the article, I do see why Britain would want to do such a thing. Because the quotas on limiting the number of immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania are expiring, there is obviously going the increase the number of people immigrating to Britain. However, I had no idea it could be as many people as some of the predictions are saying. If there was an influx of immigrants that large, it could really disrupt many aspects of life in Britain. With more people in Britain, the unemployment rate could increase, and as a result there could be more homeless people. There would be more people needing health care, which could possibly lead to less quality care for all patients.
The problem with making an ad campaign to make the U.K. look less desirable to potential immigrants is that they would be spending a lot of money to make Britain “look bad” but it’s not a guarantee that anyone would actually pay attention or take the campaign seriously. Last year Britain spent billions of dollars and to make it look good for the Olympics. So if people from Romania and Bulgaria already had their minds set on moving to Britain, an ad trying to deter them would be pointless.

Jess Pitrone's comment, April 29, 10:30 PM

Overpopulation due to immigration is a problem that plagues many nations. Usually, the immigration is due to citizens from other countries seeking political, economic, or religious refuge. It isn’t uncommon for countries to try to deter immigrants for this reason, but they may also want to deter them not because of overpopulation, but simply because they don’t want them there. It can make a government seem harsh or unwelcoming if they enact laws to prevent people from immigrating to their country, so I think that this advertising campaign is pretty genius. Enacting laws or putting quotas on immigrating doesn’t usually go over well (look at the American “Chinese Exclusion Act” of 1882), and it can definitely come back to bite you. What’s great about this UK ad, even though it’s basically an admission that they don’t want any immigrants, it’s a little more subtle.