Mohamed: Did you hear that interview on the radio in which a person from Spain claimed that immigrants "are taking 'our' jobs away"?

Urpi: No, I didn't.

Burama: Actually I did, and I think that's just such superficial reasoning. It may be true sometimes, but it just isn't true in general. In fact, quite a lot of places in Spain that were poor and losing population have now a good 'income per capita'.

Urpi: Income per capita?

Mohamed: It means income per person. People living in those parts of Spain earn more than in the past, and they earn more compared with other parts of the country too.

Urpi: I know that when people from Spain came to different parts of South and Central America the reaction from some people there was similar. Some treated Spaniards with disrespect, thinking they were inferior for the fact of having to go to seek work in other countries.

Mohamed: We just have to get used to it. If we see a good job somewhere else I bet we'd be interested in it. They call it globalisation. Anyway, some economic immigrants help create new industries and businesses.

Urpi: Economic immigrants?

Burama: Yes, those who come to Spain to find a better living than in their own countries, where maybe they live in poverty and have no future.

Urpi: Wow, you know lots of things about this.

Mohamed: If those who criticise the immigrants for 'taking their jobs away' knew a bit more about all this; if they knew a bit more about their own immigration histories...

Burama: Exactly, ignorance sometimes is as bad as weapons. Why don't we do more about this in school?