The first wave of migrants from the Middle East to Latin America were accepted by the locals as hardworking mercantile successes. Newer arrivals have had a harder time.

American basketball promotes the myth that it’s a way out of poverty and a hard life. But that’s no longer true. The odds are genetically stacked and favour those with a secure socioeconomic background.

There is one shared Slavic language, with variants, across all of the former Yugoslavia. But the nationalists in what became separate countries can’t agree on what to call it.