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Obviousman wrote:Allright, now I've got the time to get into this discussion to
Lets get started

dead stars wrote:Nowadays people are coming everyday to Portugal, either as refugees or as immigrants. The other day I was thinking how do they distinguish from both situations because refugees also seek work in the country and don't mean to go back.
It is so intense that I went to Spain and wondered "what have you done to all the black people?". "We don't have them", I was answered, but instead I'd never seen so many Latin Americans from ex-Spanish colonies.

In no way am I advocating colonialism, merely providing food for thought.
But my personal opinion is that (especially in the case of ex-Portuguese colonies) they are a lot, but a lot, worse than before.

What I've been thinking for years: Why not give some sort of special status to immigrants from ex-colonies? It would be not a bad idea, I guess, since, we've got a whole lot of profit out of them, they gave us the possibility for the Industrial Revolution and all that, so wouldn't it be fair they could get a bit of profit out of us too, just a thought though...

In Portugal, there is a special status for immigrants from ex-colonies. There is an organisation of countries that have Portuguese as their official language (including Brazil) - sorry, can't rememebr the designation right now - and there are scholarships and opportunities of several sorts under that organisation. Few, but they exist.
Not to mention everybody in the African colonies were given Portuguese nacionality automatically. So, nowadays, after the independence, they have double nacionality, but they are legally considered Portuguese citizens. (The ones born in colony time, which only ended in 1974.)
I reckon it is not the case with British colonies?