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The new racism in Chile


A really important national topical issue is the higher rates of immigration in Chile, which has been a very controversial topic because are a lot of people that aren’t happy with this phenomenon. If you check the statistics of the web page of the immigration department (Departamento de extranjería y migración, 2016) you can see that the immigration rates are increasing and that has scared Chilean people. But in the same document it says this numbers are lower than in other South American countries. So, what are the people so worried about? I think that this happen because is a new phenomenon that Balibar (in Balibar and Wallerstein, 1991) calls “neoracismo” (new racism) and it’s consist in the belief of the damage that can produce the lack of borders between countries. This belief is not based on biological heritage, but it is on the cultural differences that make life styles incompatible. I think that currently it’s very common to hear this kind of comments in Chilean people or read it in the social media. Also, in the press you can see this implicitly, because even though they don’t necessarily show a negative vision about this, in the news you can see the emphasis in the big difference between Chilean people and the ones considers foreigners. And this difference is even clearer with black people, and I think that is because the appearing difference is even more obvious.
Regard this topic, I think that is necessary a big change of mind, in which we doesn’t see the difference like a threat, but as a contribution to our culture. In that matter is absolutely indispensable have a new regulation, because I reject the one made for Sebastián Piñera, because I think that have had very harmful consequences, especially in the case of the people from Haiti. So, we need appropriate public policies that protect immigrants and doesn’t discriminate them and at the same time a deep change of mindset.

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  1. Unknown4 de diciembre de 2018, 18:08

    I believe that foreign people enrich our country with culture. I prefer foreign people a thousand times than Chilean racists.

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