Brasil: Behind Closed Doors with Sisi18 Kesä

expats, immigrants and migration

the cities we live in were not always cities. they weren’t always this packed, this urbanized. and some of the most xenophobic, most close-minded people i’ve ever come across, anywhere, including back home and including here in bahia, have no idea that a few generations ago their own people were pushed out of somewhere. forced into dense, overpopulated places because there wasn’t another option.

this isn’t a brazil problem. it’s not a usa problem. it’s everywhere. people defend borders and identities and national stories while knowing almost nothing about the migrations and displacements that built the place they’re standing on.

and yeah, you can blame the schools for that. they leave a lot out. but at some point you gotta ask yourself, where does this worship of patriotism even come from? why do so many people defend the exact systems that historically wrecked people who looked just like them?

and who benefits from everybody staying confused about this? usually not the people doing the actual work. the ones who benefit stay clean, stay comfortable, and let someone else do the dirty work of keeping people in their place. then they look down from above like they had nothing to do with any of it.,,,

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