Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months agoAnd most groups really. The dynamics are often the same. Ed see the folks who were wealthy and discontent enough to leave. It can’t be overstated how expensive it can be to move to the US from some places. People have to save for years just for the airfare.
pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Wealthy? They literally was asking for food on the streets and sleeping in the parks
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’re taking about on the scale of their home country. Most Venezuelans couldn’t even manage to get themselves here to be beggars.
pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Which is more tragic. Imagine starving to death in your own country and o ly the ones who have $20 with luck can go out. How this is a justification for maduros regime?
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What? It’s not. The point stands that’s mostly in the US you meet a very select group of people from other countries, usually of more means, usually with some reason why they left. You are working very hard to not understand something pretty basic. It’s like you’ve never known an immigrant: