As I learned during the 25 years that I covered the issue from its epicenter -

in cities such as Phoenix, Dallas and San Diego - without racism or

xenophobia, there would be no debate. This is how the diagram is divided:
all the anxiety and animosity that they experience The United States for
immigration, 10% is due to concern about border security, 10%, fears that
immigrants commit crimes, 10%, to cholera for the benefits they receive;
10%, to the fear that they will not assimilate and 10%, to cause
demographic changes. The other 50% is for racism and xenophobia. Why
save words? Americans almost always despise immigrants as inferior to
those who are already here. That's when Benjamin Franklin, an Englishman,
shook his fist at German immigrants in the mid-seventeenth century,
declaring that "they will never adopt our language nor customs, in the same
way that they will not acquire our complexion.

In the event, in which representatives of the Ibero-American countries

participate, it was mentioned that currently between 20% and 30% of the
population in Latin America is Afro-descendant.
Although Jorge Chediek, resident coordinator of the United Nations System
in Brazil, made it clear that "we can not say exactly because in our countries
they do not include racial self-identification as an element of the census
questionnaire."
Chediek cited the case of Brazil, whose censuses showed that "more than
50% of the population is considered Afro-descendant."
In general terms, said Chediek, the population of our region has components
of descendants of indigenous, European and Asian, as well as African.
For this reason, "one of the ideas of this event is to invite governments to
include in their systems of national statistics such mechanisms to enable
identification and this would allow improving public policies," he added.

Discrimination is the act of making a distinction, it is an act of abuse and

injustice that violates the right to equal opportunities. Discrimination as
such is not tolerated in any democratic society and should not exist. This
word is used in many forms, for example statistical discrimination. Out of all
context, it is the ability to discern the qualities and recognize the differences
between things (objects, animals or people). Usually, it refers to the
violation of equal rights for individuals and social life.
Discrimination is called negative when: It performs a prejudice based on
differences or subjective considerations; As opposed to those based on
scientific observations. Performs a harmful action towards a specific group,
based on such prejudices. This represents the most common concept of
discrimination in general. This article develops this meaning: social, racial,
religious discrimination, sexual or sexual orientation, which is defined here
by taking a part of Article 1 of the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, paraphrasing it in a manner
Inductive, such as: "The distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference
based on various motives (sex, race, religion, social status ...) whose
purpose or result is to nullify or diminish the recognition, preference or
exercise, under the same conditions, of Human rights and fundamental
freedoms in politics, economics, society, culture or any other sphere of
public life. "Xenophobia is one of the most biased prejudices, hatred, phobia
and rejection against foreigners. General, against different ethnic groups, or
against people whose social, political and cultural physiognomy is unknown.

In the last decade of the twentieth century it manifested itself very

aggressively in all societies and in places where different ethnic groups
coexist, which are neither mixed nor integrated in the native communities.
Like racism, xenophobia is an ideology of rejection and exclusion of any
cultural identity alien to its own. It differs from it by proclaiming cultural
segregation and accepting foreigners and immigrants only through their
sociocultural assimilation. Xenophobia is based on historical, linguistic,
religious, cultural, and even national prejudices to justify the total and
obligatory separation between different ethnic groups, in order not to lose
their "own identity". Combining these prejudices with the economic, social
and political power the majority xenophobia, rejects and excludes
foreigners, immigrants to the extent that sees in them a competitor for
existential resources.