Thursday, March 17, 2011

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. ·. Photo courtesy of Iñaki Bellver. ·.
recently asked me the origin of my interest and concern for the issue of immigration here in Europe. Following some brief reflections transoceanic.
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conditions in Colombia my casual-all-of birth, race and economic level, allowed me to be in of that (small) group of people does not have many chances of being constantly discriminated against. I'm not lying when he said that in Colombia it is easy to find relatively easy to discriminate subtle or blatantly obvious, based on any of the foregoing factors:

where you are born or live, determines your true sense of what is "Colombia." Moreover, the war in the country has ceased to be a frequent topic when it has been moving to rural areas, ergo, forgotten, leaving the country to threaten the "development" urban. The general feeling is that what happens in Colombia is only what happens in their cities. Anything that is not urban, not Colombia is typically, however everything that happens in cities it is. What is the exotic rural, urban, the "normal."

regard to race, one example: the criticism being leveled at a black-hating former senator acknowledged the term African-American or Afro-Caribbean are plagued not by their political positions, but, most often, derogatory references to their skin color.

The economic level is perhaps the most obvious, yet the saddest, in a cultural event where they stood before a diplomatic audience heard one of the organizers say that "it does not get that, it seems Poor Man 'to see the clothes he wore one of the artists was not new impeccably. This person he forgot to Colombia is not only a millionaire, but it is mostly poor. I have also heard a pathetic belief in a "Colombian concerned about the poor," she did not understand how it was that young women without economic resources does not accept the "generous offer that Colombian did well to give for tubal ligation free to avoid having children. " Invest the money of this "generous" sex education campaign, had not contemplated. Does the right to reproduce? That was not right for all, was a right for women rights.

However, despite all this, I always feel lucky not clearly discriminated against on any of the above reasons. Ever suspicious of my political positions have studied at a public university, where are people with fewer economic resources, "in other" black "I was released as an insult and other questioned me (question) the failure to understand that as The City is done in such things should be done.

Finally, this litany of things that is easy to see in Colombia, are the very things that made me, once I accepted and enjoyed my condition immigration in Europe, I worry and interest in the phenomenon of discrimination and racism. But no, not a disinterested interest for that. It is an interest that stems from the fact that here realize I'm part of that group who was born in the rural areas of world-that is, poor countries or developing, I have a skin color and different features the natives-have black blood, English, Lebanese, and India, necessarily puts you out of the "normal" - and my economic status has been affected by having the audacity to build a new life project away from where I was born.

That is, if I am interested in the phenomenon immigration and racism is not (just) out of altruism, but because here I can be the discrimination.

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