That's a direct consequence of colonialism and neocolonialism. The exploitation of the third world by the first world robs people of a chance to live a decent life in their homelands, forcing them to migrate. Mexico is a good example. NAFTA pulverized the Mexican people, especially farmers, who couldn't compete with big American agribusiness and were driven off their land with nowhere to go and no way to make a living. So what could they do? They had to go north in search of means to survive, scrubbing white people's toilets in the US for sub-minimum wage. Then when they get there, they're demonized, discriminated, exploited, even blamed for the problems caused by the very same free-market policies that drove them out of their homeland to begin with.
The same story, with variations, is repeated across the globe. Africa, Asia, the Middle East. Economic policies dictated by the Western powers create misery. "Open your economies, privatize everything, let us flood your markets with our products, let our capitalists buy up everything you own, sell us the factories and mines and farms and oil fields, and get rid of those minimum wages and labor laws so we can make maximum profit!" Colonialism and neo-colonialism, the rape of the third world by the ruling class of the first world, drives millions, hundreds of millions, of people into destitution, forcing them to migrate in search of work to survive. They go to Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, in search of the wealth plundered from their homelands. Then when they get there they become an underclass, still deprived of the life they seek, driven to ghettoes, humiliated, oppressed and discriminated, their very existence criminalized. "It's a Muslim takeover!" "The Mexicans are taking our jobs!" South Asians in Britain, Arabs in France, Latinos in the US, it's all the same story.
And since socialism disappeared from East Europe, and the East European nations have become neo-colonies themselves, the same story is repeated there. Poles, Yugoslavs, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Russians, driven to destitution as their countries are taken over by Western monopoly capitalists and forced to migrate to Western countries like Germany and Britain, and despite being white they're treated almost as badly as the Asians, Africans and Latin Americans, a lower caste.
It's the way of colonialism, of imperialism, of capitalism.
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FlowWithTheGo
8 years ago
And since socialism disappeared from East Europe, and the East European nations have become neo-colonies themselves, the same story is repeated there.
No they're not, you're talking absolute drivel. However, they were neo-colonies of the USSR. Its no coincidence that the poorest nations in Europe are the ex eastern bloc countries who had communism forced upon them by the USSR.
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