Immigrants
are becoming a conflictive topic in the politic scenario, specially looking at
the upcoming elections. For this topic usually you can identify easier the most
radical opinions, the most nationalist ones, and the utopic freedom ones.
This topic
needed a lot of researching and pondering to give a correct opinion. It can be
said, with property, that there are more positives on the arriving of
immigrants than the negatives in their arrival. They are used to do jobs that
national workers doesn’t want to do, they enrich our culture, and stimulates
the economy, buying things here with the money they make. They don’t steal jobs
as there is used to say, they just get job like any other kind of people, there
is no prove for the affirmations of “increase of delinquency” or their “bad
habits”. Above all, we support the main idea that the arriving of immigrants is
not intrinsically good or bad, it depends primarily on the culture, the society
that predominates in the territory. We can see this in the in the differences
that people usually do between “white” and “black” immigrants, and the
prejudices that people do about this. Immigrants are people like any other and
can be good or bad, but the special condition of immigrant is not what
determines this, is the variability in humans and the way that societies
receive them.
In the
first image, there is a bars graphic that shows the average age of immigrants,
that shows a clear tendency to the young and adult type of immigrant, people
that comes to work like any other person does, we can see the peak (in the 3
years) in the 20-35 years old range, followed by the 0 to 19 that, if aren’t
people able to work, are sons and daughters of workers.
In the
second graph we can see the rate of poor people between immigrants and people
born in Chile, showing that in both populations, there is a similar proportion
in the existence of poor people in both groups.
Looking at
those graphics, we can conclude that immigrants doesn’t mean intrinsically
poorly, bad habits, no working people, or anything specially bad, they in
general reflects what the society have for them, there are poor Chileans as
poor immigrants, rich Chileans and rich immigrants, so the real problem is
deeper than the immigration, there is a problem with the society that obviously
just realize the worst things about different people.


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