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.
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