RE: -- Am I Living in a No-Go Zone? -- Bursting the Filter Bubble With the Needle of Reality –
I'm quite flattered by your post. And i really agree with what you said, as there are lots of information online that could be questioned and because we are quite "biased" in nature according to our views, we ignore others.
And i want here to express my personal views on immigration in general:
I'm from Venezuela. This country was a major recipient of immigrants from every part of the world in the 20th century. Mostly europeans. And they really blended very well with our culture. They became truly Venezuelans at heart, but they kept their countries of origin in their heritage. Arabs came and it was the same, but they were cautious to mix up race with ours. It's their culture and i can really respect that. Chinese migrants came and it's the same, they even prosper very well. I, as a citizen of my country will welcome anyone who accepts our way of living, and ABIDES to the law.
We, as venezuelans, live a really serious humanitarian crisis. We are fleeing the country in droves. 12% of our population have left the country in the last decade. There's good people that work really hard in the other South American countries, but there are also a quite small but notorious number of those that are delinquents, and others have been so accustomed to this socialist regime that literally impose their bad customs and actions to others. And the same happens with central americans crossing the US borders.
Every nation has the right to preserve their heritage and culture. Immigrants have to abide to the law and customs of the land, and that's the normal thing to expect, and that's not even newsworthy because that is what the nation EXPECTS FROM ANY IMMIGRANT. When immigrants prosper in the land in good deeds, that gets acknowledged and recognized. When they don't abide to the law, we should use our voice to aware people of what's happening.
Why don't we see law-abiding immigrants denouncing crimes done by other immigrants? It would be good, really. And i'm not talking only about the Europe issue. I'm talking worldwide.
Next series will be about immigration in South America by Venezuelans. Stay Tuned!
I'm glad you're flatterd :)
And I'm sorry about this situation in Venezuela, so you are saying that immigrants not adapting to the heritage and culture in Venezuele are causing the crisis over there?
On the filter bubble issue: I'd love to read a story by you on the immigration by Venezuelans, and hope you can inject it with a lot of reality!