Being Second Rate Citizens or Expanding Your Mind?

Would going to another country make you a second rate citizen, subordinate to the natives in all manner of freedom and opportunities? That seems to be the consensus among most movies made in Bollywood (Hindi Film Industry) or in Kerala (is there a Hollywood-like name for the Malayalam Film Industry?). Whenever a character shows aspiration towards settling abroad, due to the increased amenities of course, there is never any other reason for a character to want to settle in the West, someone else always points out that one should remain in one's own country and put one's talents to good use towards that country's growth. If not that, there is always this point raised that one would always be second to the natives wherever one goes except in the country to which one culturally belongs to. And because of that, you should remain in your country of birth or the geographical location where your roots or your parents roots are.

Obviously, I disagree. Even if it were true that we would be second grade citizens elsewhere in the world, and that is probably true to a certain extent in terms of social norms, if not by by law (because as far as I know laws of most countries in the West* do not discriminate based on race, colour or culture), we cannot refuse to move around. If each and every one of us sat tight in our country of origin because we are afraid of racial prejudice and closed-mindedness on behalf of people in other countries, then humans are doomed.
Because isolationism never helped anybody. All it does is make us blind to our faults, stifle those of us with any open-mindedness or those who think different or are different (because hey, any difference is wrong and rates prejudice, right?), and ensure that the resources of the world are not properly utilised. It prevents us from working together for the betterment of humanity and instead ensures that we engage in petty conflicts that lose lives and cost the economy. It prevents our minds from expanding and instead focuses and exaggerates our fears and insecurities.

Am I saying that everyone should leave their country of origin and move to some other place? Or that an Indian (or a person of any other nationality) born somewhere else should not move back to India (or their root location)? Definitely not. If that is your thing, then by all means do it. If you are feeling a pull towards the geographical location of your birth or your roots, then don't let any grand idea of open mindedness bother you. However, if it is not, if you would like to settle in a country of your choice, and if that country would have you, then don't let any misguided loyalty to your culture or any patriotism stop you from moving. And, don't do that to anyone else either.

Because mixing of cultures is good people. It won't kill us. It would nourish us and take us forward.

*No idea about other countries (after all, West is not the whole world), but despite laws, if people want to move, I am all for it.