Should Vietnam invite more Jews and Caucasians to live and work in Vie, to balance out the Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, etc. Options

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Are most of you against this idea?

In contrast to the Japanese "Fugu Plan" or yours, the Filipino one aimed to settle the Jewish immigrants in the lightly populated island of Mindanao as farmers and agricultural workers, maybe more similar to the Kibbuzim in Israel.

The Philippine plan for settlement on Mindanao called for the immigration of
1,000 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria each year for a period of ten years.
The refugees were to support themselves through subsistence farming, and later by raising
beef herds as well. While other agricultural settlements were in preparation in Latin
America, the Mindanao Plan was the only such project to be considered in Asia. Moreover,
it was unique in that it involved a territory controlled by the United States.4 The
Philippines had no entry quotas—a major impediment to refugee immigration elsewhere
at the time—and thus represented a “back door” entry into the United States.
Extensive planning took place over a three-year period. But even before the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into the war, efforts to establish a
Jewish refugee agricultural settlement in Mindanao ran into difficulties. The planners
underestimated the potential for opposition from local Filipinos and their political
representatives, and this affected their ability to acquire the necessary agricultural
land. The participants in the development of the settlement plans—a coalition of
leaders of the Manila Jewish Community, Philippine President Manuel Quezon, and
U.S. government officials—had various motives and levels of urgency. The Jewish
leadership wanted a quick resolution of immigration issues and sufficient funding to
support the settlement program. State Department officials, expecting the plan to
fail and fearing that the United States would then have to admit thousands of Jewish
refugees, did not hide their hostility toward the settlement plan.5 What is not clear
even today, however, is whether President Quezon intended to see the project
through, or simply wished to seem accommodating to the American “occupiers

Quezon made his next public statement on the matter on April 23, 1940 at the
dedication of Marikina Hall, a site built near Manila to house young Jewish refugees
(who were not destined for Mindanao). The Philippines Herald reported key points
of the speech in an editorial:
1. Jewish refugees would be limited to ten thousand, arriving over a period of
years.
2. They would not constitute a burden upon the state.
3. They would work in agriculture; there should be no fear that they would
control commerce and industry.
4. The Philippine Government would ensure that the settlement would be
mutually beneficial for the refugees and the Filipinos.
5. In permitting the refugees to come, the country was demonstrating to the
world that it was hospitable, just, and humane.74

Now another prominent voice weighed in on the proposed Jewish settlement in
Mindanao. In a newspaper interview, General Emilio Aguinaldo, the former revolutionary
leader, cited reasons for alarm at the prospect of Jewish settlement. He contended
that “millions” of Filipinos from other islands in the archipelago should be
given preference to settle in Mindanao, and that “the Jews [were] dangerous people to
have around in large numbers.” Their abilities, temperament, and business training,
he said, had always resulted in their controlling and absorbing the populations of the
areas in which they settled. Jews, he argued, were “by nature ambitious and selfishly
materialistic” and were “not anxious to help the country in which they live[d].” If the
well-organized and highly educated Germans were unable to coexist with the Jews, he
asked, then how could one expect the primitive folk of Mindanao to compete with
them? Further, Aguinaldo feared that adding another religion to the many other faiths
on the island would lead to economic problems and racial and religious strife.56