Slavery is also a convoluted topic around here. Bolivar once lost a lot of followers when he decided to free the slaves. When the whole war ended black people didn't have it easy. There's this idea of colour blindness around here. However, a lot of what we see as tolerance and jokes is founded on racists thoughts. The same is true for xenophobia. Venezuelans suffer from that a lot nowadays, but back when we didn't have a diaspora, you could see how mockery and offensive behavior was keen towards foreigners. The same people who run basically everything around here.
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