A U.N. independent investigator says migrants in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world are subjected to the worst forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia.
Monday, November 01, 2010
UN states the obvious
The UN, a fetid and ineffectual debating society hosting some of the world's least democratic countries, has done what it always does: spent untold sums of money on reports that are totally unnecessary. From the AP:
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Xenophobia - from the Greek, xenos meaning stranger and phobos meaning fear.
Here's a tip. Don't want to be feared as a stranger? Don't migrate to other countries!
If you migrate, xenophobia is a de facto element of what you're choosing to experience. The only way to be free from it is to innoculate yourself against it by integrating into your new society.
There really are no examples of strangers arriving -- anywhere -- and not having a difficult time of it. It takes 2-3 generations for an immigrant group to get their footing and for the natives to get used to the idea.
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