Racism is a problem that we can see more frequently because inmigration to chile has been increasing during the last years.
The problem is with some particular kind of foreigners, because while most chilean people are very kind and can be well integrated with some foreigners like americans and europeans, racism and discrimination have been aimed at people from other latin american nationalities like peruvian, haitian and colombian .
Racism has been linked with another problem, which is segregation. For example the most of the haitian foreigners that came to Santiago live in Quilicula, because there is a growing haitian community who live there because they work in the factories of Quilicura, and this created another problem, which is segregation, because they only have been involved in this place, and can only know the reality of this place.
Segregation is a problem that no only affected foreign people, because in Santiago the distribution of the “different kind of people”, has been very segregated, and the design of the city is not helping to improve the integration of its inhabitants.
the segregation towards foreign people also affects the inmigrants’ children, because it is very difficult for them to be integrated into the chilean educational system, because they have to validate their studies with the chilean school system, and this validation process can be very annoying, because they have to take tests in a retroactive way. There is a problem also with the chilean law of immigration, which was created during the dictatorship, and this law does not facilitate the process of immigrants settling down in Chile, but this is currently under discussion to be changed.
The problem with racism and segregation is that they produce ignorance, and reduce the posibilities of integrating new kinds of people. Integrating new kinds of people means incorporating new ways of thinking, and this is positive for any society.
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Fortunately racism in Chile is not in the levels of other countries. However, with the strong inflow of migrants, we must reinforce the values of respect and tolerance towards others.
Without a doubt racism is a big problem in modern societies, it is a kind of a mental block to interact with others.
What make you better than people from other countries? your skin color? your language? ...
It seems like racism was not a problem nowdays, but it is still prevailing :(
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Mauricio,
WC: 313. Ok.
The problem of racism is increasing in Chile. The more foreign people there are, the bigger the problem. Of course, as you say, Chilean people are racist with other Latin Americans.
Your text is fine, you should be careful with your edition, certainly Haitians do not live in "Quilicula", the word is "iMMigrant" and our nationality ( all nationalities) are to be written with capital letter (Chilean)
Cheers,
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