This time I propose a little exercise of self-analysis and reflection. Piénsate to yourself how certain are the following statements:
- The immigrants are "invading"
- The arrival of immigrants leads to more insecurity
- Immigrants coming from your country with nothing, and that pushes them into crime
- Immigrants take away our jobs
- Immigrants receive more state aid
- Immigrants saturated social services
- English emigrábamos but
contract work
Do you find some one of them? Do you think any of these statements is true, and even demonstrated with objective data?
Yes, they are all false. And many of them are even part of the ideology of some political parties: the poster illustrating this post is an extreme example of this, although we must not go so far ...
And now, thinking: Why, if there is any data to support these claims, most people consider many of them as true?
