Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Bandage Dress, Material

Arriva Torquemada and stiletto heels

Then there were sponsorships. He was not politically correct, and the African children were shamelessly referred to as "little black". My teacher - very Catholic and fascist - was determined to take up the foil so the chocolates because they helped the poor priests of the missions (and I've never understood why). Who carry out their apostolate in desperate lands and godless, and to which they had offered to send food and clothes. I had always breathed secularism: Yeah I was surprised that the apostolate also meant to force kids into socks, boots and clothes like those brats of the cartoons of Novello.
But most seemed to me an abuse of that all those deals, that help was "conditioned" to the conversion of small savages, who instead had deities (in my opinion at least) enviable picturesque and much more forgiving and much more pleasant rituals of our own. Then growing up, facing the disintegration of the myth of development cooperation, I wondered if it was better to donate my meager 8 per thousand to caritas, missionaries, religious organizations. I kept the same approach to "lay" (now more mature and motivated) I had as a child. A refusal to exercise more or less abusive, more or less smooth, more or less aware of proselytism, the imposition of beliefs, models, customs, rituals, myths, cultures, and even ideals and visions and expectations.

saves me the light: When did political activist and there was always someone who requested to note the work of persuasion and "conversion" could not not think about the cartoons of Guareschi and "counter-mates." One I found just irresistible. You could see the brave "trinariciuti" take a hammer as their wives combed Tordella and under the caption read: counter-mates, there was an error, to find new members need to beat the "campaign" not the "friend" ..

Convert to our cultural and political models and religious subjects "others" is an activity that the dominant culture so zealously interpreted by the right government has borrowed from the church and in agreement with you exercise diligently. So we export democracy (as if we had more than enough!) And our internal states to impose the dangerous tilt means more or less persuasive ways of our supposed "freedom".
Mrs. Santanchè has heard the call to "liberate" Muslim women from their odious symbols of slavery and did so by invading their place of worship in the days dedicated to prayer and atonement. Among the Holy Inquisition and "Mission" the sacred apostolate the lady is frankly ridiculous played: Who has not imagined, and enjoyed for adverse outcomes of blows on the precarious accretions of cosmetic surgery and the risks of an ignominious fall from tottering heels 12 cm.?

Too bad there is not much to laugh. We have allowed you to think that the issue of xenophobia and the rights of foreigners were an innocent obsession with minority or radical intellectuals. We (thanks also part of what remained of the left) just the fascination of the primacy of "security" rather than address the issue of immigration as a test of our civilization and our democracy.
The national crackdown, including these utterances that are not only picturesque as they are not those of the League and its auditors, not stem the flow of migrants. But light reactions are those that affect safety and the peace but above all undermine the very idea and principles of citizenship and the dignity of all, the same difference. It should be in support of an unfair policy aimed at maintaining economic conditions of minority legal social and civil millions of workers committed to running the "material base" of the economy "immaterial." In affluent societies tend to merge equality and demagoguery. And in those cases, the equality s is converted into its opposite: it becomes a privilege, parasitism, at least half the crumb on the edge of a sort that it provides morsels unfairly as a "calm", as in the case of regularization of carers. But we are not an affluent society and the crisis turns on conflicts, wars between feeding the poor, from 'fire to the fuses of racism and xenophobia. The performance of Mrs. Santanchè the precieuse ridiculous, squealing the reasons for western democracy to cover the irrational appeal of nationalist racism, is a disturbing indicator on which it would be dangerous only smile.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Grown Man Having Wet Dreams

Open comparing integration desirable ...

Great melting pot, European cities have a long tradition of acceptance populations from other parts of the world and expressions of other cultures. Hamburg Amsterdam Antwerpen Venice were cities in the world, to quote Braudel. Rather than end they were big open portals on economic social and cultural spaces only partially known. On this opening, the cosmopolitanism, they built their prestige, their authority, their hegemony. Within these streets and neighborhoods were often inhabited by specific ethnic groups who carried out their activities and there are represented through their places of worship or places of special categories of occupation and non-religious schools. And they shared spaces within the urban fabric, such as markets, helping to enrich the city's economy "Guests", pushing social and spatial mobility. The ethnic and cultural differences also strengthened through intermarriage companies who could exploit them.
Venice has been exemplary in accepting the "difference", with its ability to incorporate, assimilate, but also a visionary call to protect certain freedoms of expression, religion, tradition, cuisine and a delicious ability to introject forms, values, uses, and integrate them into his life, the arts, culture, language ...
This aggression of a handful of worn-yesterday to a foreign worker in Venice injury in a coma sounds more like a city already outraged by the stupid rituals that the league proposes bold with complacency. Venice has seen many, is a city disenchanted, cynical. Invasion of idiots in green responds with skeptical irony, some hoisting tricolor and stay at home as long as "no ... I left the x". Of course we would like a more responsive, a bit 'of rebellion, anger .. and we'd like more throughout Italy. An Italy
for which there is still so recent experience of emigration to remember the golden rule of biblical memory: do to others what was done to your father or your grandfather ... or perhaps because our past is poor and dispossessed so dangerously close to our ephemeral privileges today alo our fragile health today, it seems that you want to remove it behind them and not to recognize the features and expression of our emigrants humiliated and in despair on the faces of the immigrants of today.
But really belongs to the past the right distinction between new and old alignments (left?) And radical reformers? On one hand, distrust and insecurity xenophobia fear appeals to public policy. Solidarity Across opening reception included.
The matter is more complicated .. or maybe easier. During the election campaign was underlined that safety and legality are not the monopoly the right. And integration and rights should be everyone!
But is the escalation in repressive and xenophobic act shows that the Government and for a small portion of public issue, immigration is considered a matter of public policy. So the mysterious division becomes circular. Also proposing questions about the proper nature of integration. That integration, let's call it, is not a worthy goal, but indispensable in Italian society, seems to be a view shared by all right-thinking people of any deployment.
But it is more ambiguous to define what it means.
If integration is a desirable state of affairs in which Italian citizens and migrant workers, the prospect of becoming future citizens respect the laws and rules, live together in peace and respect, is indeed ambiguous whether this process should occur as a result of a mutual approach or instead of a unilateral adjustment of aliens to our society and culture. In short, a burden to pay, with the acceptance of values \u200b\u200band traditions of "our" oblivion of "them". Defense of the witch and the fight kebab? It is not that simple of course, although it must be re-elected with a clear and elemental simplicity of the primacy of law, solidarity, respect, obedience to the rules of coexistence. I'd like
discuss (and then practice it) as it should be the integration of the left, a shared process inspired by justice (understood as social justice) and not only by solidarity, reception, dall'umanitarismo. A justice that takes into account what we have to one another between individuals and public dimension to what you have to institutions and citizens. The left can not and must not chase the muscularity of the right, just not to be accused of carelessness and excessive tolerance or underestimation.
safety and legality are attributes of justice. A company must also be right to secure stable and regulated by laws and respect. And pluralist. A request for assimilation to one way is unfair if the cost of adaptation is only paid by the migrants in terms of denial and limitation in their lifestyles. At the same time would be ripe soon settled the question of multiculturalism, with the support of a welfare approach and indiscriminate tribalization, which risks sliding dangerously towards extreme tendencies of failing to protect not only our citizens but also the weakest of the other communities.
do not know the "recipe". I do not think that a cultural relativism that opposes a simplified Eurocentrism. Perhaps the way is the recognition of rights not to "culture" but to members cultures so that they can practice their freedom without discrimination.
But I'd like it opened a comparison to help steer institutional behaviors but also to correct perceptions, attitudes, the "feel" of public opinion.