Migrants, tourists and all sorts of ‘hated invaders’

Let’s analyze one of the most heated discussion subject by using some cooling, scientific approach to it

Nowadays in many european countries, and in the United States as well, there’s is a subject in the political agenda that stirs a lot of heated reactions among the public, according to disturbing events in the latest years: the problem of the uncontrolled, massive migrations from Third World countries to Western, wealthy ones.

In some western (and non-western) european countries like Germany, France, Netherlands or the UK, far-right parties have been thrieving supported by a significant mass of voters that feel scared by the rapid increase of foreign population, basically from Africa and muslim countries. This phenomenon is firing some coexistence conflicts between locals and fresh migrants from those countries.

In the United States, president candidates like Donald Trump are using the building of a gigantic fence in the southern border to stop the massive tide of undocumented people arriving from Mexico and other countries of latin america and the rest of the world.

In several touristic cities and islands, mainly among southern Europe, they are planning different gruesome measures to stop the avalanche of tourists that provoke unrest in local population.

It seems that the world is collapsing in some places and some sorts due to the chaotic injection of alien people among existing citizens, whose patience seems like being challenged very quickly. The danger of the emergency of real, serious, violent conflicts because of it doesn’t seem a strange hypothesis anymore.

But, what’s behind of all of this?

When it comes to the phenomenon of people moving around the planet (according to a recognized Human Right), we are basically talking about three (may be 4) variables to take into account:

1. Cultural Distance (D): it would be a measure of how different and alien another culture is from ours. It is not the same to welcome to our city or town people from the town/county/state next door of us that people from the other side of the planet with different language, religion…