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Has The Mass Immigration of Europeans To Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Been Positive For The Natives?
Just asking…
Immigration has been a hot-button topic lately.
Wherever you look, the drum of anti-immigration has been beating quite loudly.
Viktor Orban is doing his thing in Hungary, Marine Le Pen of France, has made serious in roads into whipping a large section of the electorate into thinking that those who do not look like them are the cause of their problems.
Georgia Meloni’s rise to prominence has been as a result of her extreme rhetoric on those who have survived the perilous journey to the shores of Southern Italy.
Here in the United Kingdom, the recently routed Conservatives spent a huge amount of political (and actual) capital, demonizing Muslims and the very few who have successfully sought asylum in the country.
Over in America, Donald Trump has made a song and dance of attacking Hispanic, African and Asian immigrants to America, saying that all they have done is commit crimes, making their country an infinitely unsafe space.
And it is fair to state that the current political climate is quite anti-immigrant.
But there’s an interesting phenomenon at play here — these recent migrants are people of colour; often from places where wars, famine and genocide have taken place.
And it is also worth pointing out to the bigots here and elsewhere that these events are usually engendered by the American government and multi-nationals.
We will, however, get to that later.
This author thinks that it is imperative to view the arguments regarding immigration from another prism.
Seriously?
Yes.
And this should be from the prism of those who left their original countries, several decades or even centuries ago.
Europeans aren’t native to Argentina, Brazil, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand and yet they form the overwhelming majority in those places.
