Chilean prosperity also attracts settlers from abroad.Although…

Chilean prosperity also attracts settlers from abroad.

Although small in number compared with those arriving in Argentina, European immigrants become an important element of the new middle class; their numbers include several future manufacturing tycoons.

These arrivals come from both northern and southern Europe.

People also emigrate from the Middle East, Peru, and Bolivia.

Although most immigrants end up in the cities of Chile, a minority succeeds at farming, especially in the south.

In the early twentieth century, a few members of the Chilean elite will try to blame the rise of leftist unions and parties on foreign agitators, but the charge will ring hollow in a country where less than five percent of the population has been born abroad.