Six wealthiest countries host less than 9% of world's refugees (The Guardian)
US, China, Japan, Germany, France and UK accommodate just 2.1 million refugees, according to Oxfam reportAccording to a report released by the charity on Monday, the US, China, Japan, Germany, France and the UK, which together make up 56.6% of global GDP, between them host just 2.1 million refugees: 8.9% of the world’s total.
Of these 2.1 million people, roughly a third are hosted by Germany (736,740), while the remaining 1.4 million are split between the other five countries. The UK hosts 168,937 refugees, a figure Oxfam GB chief executive, Mark Goldring, has called shameful.
In contrast, more than half of the world’s refugees – almost 12 million people – live in Jordan, Turkey, Palestine, Pakistan, Lebanon and South Africa, despite the fact these places make up less than 2% of the world’s economy.
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This is a clear picture of inequity in this world. The wealthy want to horde even to the dispense of others in severe need.
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1. How do the refugees get to China and the US? They just hop into their cars and planes and ships and that's it. 
Maybe middle-eastern refugees go to middle-eastern countries because they are closest???
2. Maybe it means some administrative effort to handle a million people who don't know your language, who have little to no relevant job-experience, who don't know your culture and who deliberately destroy their passports and lie about who they are and where they are coming from?
How could any country hesitate to take in masses of such people?
3. Bad, bad countries refuse to hand out everything they have. They have worked hard to build a stable society with human rights and peace, to achieve have technology and industry, to accumulate money, and they dare to set up standards on who they are letting in from countries rife with ethnic strife, corruption and civil-war.
How can they in good conscience refuse to hand over their wealth to dysfunctional countries ripping themselves apart?
@Equinox Moon:
How many of your personal belongings have you spent to people in need?
For example, you could very well get by by eating only rice, beans and fruit. (You can survive very well without meat, alcohol or chocolate.) You could save a lot of money by eating only that and you could donate that money you save to "others in severe need".
I consider myself a solid liberal, but sometimes I have to admit that the far left is missing a practicality gene.
