Mate, I was an immigrant for over 20 years, having lived in 3 foreign countries during that time.
It is my impression that there are 2 kinds of people who emmigrate:
People who are looking for something different - i.e. those who have wunderlust or simply want to experience something else than the culture they were born into.
People who are looking for a better life - i.e. overwhelmingly economic emigrants, though some are also refugees.
The former are indeed open minded and tend to immerse themselves in the culture of the countries they move to mixing with all sorts of people.
The latter tend to stick around with people from their own country and often (when they’re a big enough group) form communities which are little copies of the homeland abroad. They’re there for the money, not for the experience of living in a different country with a different way of acting and seing things.
(IMHO refugees are a special bunch and I can’t really speak in a well informed way about their mindset - I expect the ones who are presecuted in their homeland have no love for the way of thinking of those who prosecute them, but beyond that I don’t really know as I haven’t met any that I knew was a refugee)
Whilst the former group are pretty much a self-selected bunch of people with a certain personality type heavy on openness, the latter are only self-selected for courage (modesty on the side, it takes bravery and in some cases desperation, to uprooot yourself) and carry with them the full range of views from their homeland, which does mean many of the will be whatever version of “conservative” they grew up with.
I can tell you that at least those emmigrants from my homeland (Portugal) who left in the 60s and 70s are in average more rightwing than those who stayed behind and, judging by their vote in their presidential elections (were Bolsonaro had a much higher percentage of the vote than in Brasil), so are Brasilian immigrants in Portugal.
Mate, I was an immigrant for over 20 years, having lived in 3 foreign countries during that time.
It is my impression that there are 2 kinds of people who emmigrate:
The former are indeed open minded and tend to immerse themselves in the culture of the countries they move to mixing with all sorts of people.
The latter tend to stick around with people from their own country and often (when they’re a big enough group) form communities which are little copies of the homeland abroad. They’re there for the money, not for the experience of living in a different country with a different way of acting and seing things.
(IMHO refugees are a special bunch and I can’t really speak in a well informed way about their mindset - I expect the ones who are presecuted in their homeland have no love for the way of thinking of those who prosecute them, but beyond that I don’t really know as I haven’t met any that I knew was a refugee)
Whilst the former group are pretty much a self-selected bunch of people with a certain personality type heavy on openness, the latter are only self-selected for courage (modesty on the side, it takes bravery and in some cases desperation, to uprooot yourself) and carry with them the full range of views from their homeland, which does mean many of the will be whatever version of “conservative” they grew up with.
I can tell you that at least those emmigrants from my homeland (Portugal) who left in the 60s and 70s are in average more rightwing than those who stayed behind and, judging by their vote in their presidential elections (were Bolsonaro had a much higher percentage of the vote than in Brasil), so are Brasilian immigrants in Portugal.