Re: Anti-immigration assumptions (fwd)

If you are Canadian, you are from the first world, so you are a kind of
guest where ever you will travel. If you go to the US, you're coming from a
sister country, if you flight to South America or Central America, you will
be a tourist or a businessman, with money and a high probability of direct
investment... You'll be treated on the same way in Mexico.

Now, if you are a Mexican, even if Mexico is part of the NAFTA, you are
coming from a developing country, whatever is the degree of development,
i.e. emerging country as Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa or
developing country as India, Guatemala, Peru, Senegal or poor country as
Haiti, Congo, Bangladesh...

If you are an inhabitant of the triad: USA, Europe, Japan you are, a
priori, rich or at least you can access to a credit line and withdraw money
from your plastic card...

If not, you are automatically considered as somebody looking for a job with
a wage higher than in your country.

In Europe we are facing the same superiority complex: if I'll go to Spain,
I'm French, people will receive me as an European. Somebody from the EU.
But if I was a Polish or an Alabnian, coming not from the first Europe, the
economic one, but from the geografical Europe, the Eastern one, people will
look at me as if I'm looking for a bricklayer job.

Regional trade agreements have consolidated the sociological perception of
the foreigner, that sadly includes racism and xenophobia... Two days ago,
the death of 58 Chinese illegal workers in Dover have turned the spotlights
of the news on that problem... Today, I read in El Pais, the most
intersting Spanish newspaper, an estimation of 300,000 to 500,000 illegal
people getting into EU... How are the American figures?

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