In some cases, the effects of the population downturn are immediate, especially after so many years of emigration.
For a country that had lost so many of its best minds to deportation, Holocaust, exile, emigration, and suppression, Havel embodied a sense of the future and of Czech idealism.
So many varieties of emptiness.
THE French aren't used to the idea that their country, like so many others in Europe, might be one of emigration — that people might actually want to leave.
"There are so many positions vacant, so many job opportunities due to the emigration," said Betty Leung Morris, the office manager of Bernard Chaus International, the Hong Kong buying office of a Manhattan-based apparel company.
Week in China, a Hong Kong online news magazine, suggests something quite different and fascinating: with so many rich Chinese using the casinos to wash money to finance their emigration to other countries, the gambling take is actually a bellwether of confidence among rich Chinese in their country, the magazine says.
"But so many have only promised, and have taken no action," he said, adding that he had postponed the closing of Khao I Dang earlier this year at the request of Western governments only to see no significant increase in the processing of camp residents for emigration.
Mi esposa travels to Cuba every so many years, to do movie-related research (she's a film-studies professor) and to visit her mother's family, a dwindling number of which, as death and emigration have surpassed the birthrate, still live in the same small inland town, a dusty, colonial-looking agricultural town, not a place anyone's heard of.
