Tuesday, 8th July 2008
Immigrants' harassment of tourists
Those who advocate the acceptance and assimilation for the sake of cultural diversity, the hundreds of illegal immigrants who arrive here by whatever means year in and year out should re-think their position. They only delude themselves if they believe that this influx will not have an adverse effect on Maltese life as we know it, and tourism in particular. One needs only to visit some of the more popular tourist spots to our north. The Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, the Piazza di Trevi, or the area around Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome are daily overrun by groups of individuals who constantly harass tourists. Indeed, because of its relatively small size, in the Piazza di Trevi on a sunny day last April, hapless tourists appeared to be outnumbered three to one. Curiously enough, tourist harassment was non-existent in St Peter's Square. One has to wonder what the Vatican Police know that Rome's Carabinieri do not.
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We must not forget about the kindness of Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani who has been a leader in providing for the impoverished in times of need across the world, and in peace negotiations between opposing parties across the Middle East.
He donated $100 mil to Katrina plus other charities on behalf of Qatar nation, besides, in 2004, the State of Qatar was extremely generous in providing humanitarian aid to the victims of the Asian Tsunami.
His kindness reminds me of the parable of the Good Samaritan.
There are a few multi-cultural & muti-racial Muslim countries in other continents where their nations live in harmony. The list can go on.
@pgrima
Modern, Liberty, secularism, sexu-lism whatever its called. If we are careless about our Christianity. And we choose to trade our Christians values with liberty, sex-based and values-free culture, and still we are happy with the disastrous development in own societies we are: either idiots or ignorant. In case we are any of the latter we must not presume other confessions are the same, if we do this mean we are arrogant.
Before independence some of us used to shun every thing English. After independence, ‘until now’ we fight with each others over many thing, but politics is still on top of the list.
During the past 2, 3 decades, we wanted to join the modern world. Now, we are stalemated. We have traded our Christians values with liberty, sex-based and values-free culture. The latter, produced unsolved social dilemmas, such as out of wed-lock kids, single parents, just to mention few...
To self-please, we must have a scapegoat to hang all our evils and vices on. Here, Africans are the scapegoat. We can demonize them, yet to add more spicy sound-good talks. The irregular Africans are even better. Who says our problem is the irregular immigrants? Will we accept 10,000 of African LEGAL immigrants? If we answer yes, this is hypocrisy, if we answer no, this is racism.
Easterners blonds are okay. With westerners, we can even go a step further and ingratiate. The Nordics? This is a big WOW. No problem with them at all. They all are fine to mingle with, as long as they fit into our sex- based culture, and value-free society!
As for wolf-whistling and teasing women with some comments, it is a "common habit" over there, although I don't condone such attitude.
Over here in Malta, I have seen some locals who do the same when beautiful women walked pass them. Some even calling the Asians and the illegal migrants "hanzir" or "hanzira", not knowing that some of these migrants understood their language but chose to ignore them for not wanting unforeseen trouble.
On another note, my foreigner friends and I even encountered a middle-aged Maltese woman bothering the tourists as well for some money at Mdina, although it is a rare case. She was waiting at a jewellery shop, waiting for her prey. She was well dressed and looked healthy.
Re illegal immigrants "may" end up harassing tourists in Malta, I think we need to address the complaints by the tourists which are frequently published on the local newspapers.
http://www.corriere.it/vivimilano/cronache/articoli/2008/07_Luglio/08/moschea_vigorelli.shtml
We have something similar in St Paul's Bay. When is anyone going to take notice and dosomething about it before it gets out of hand.
If I like Meryle Streep, can I have her near me?!!!!!!!
You do have a silly argument. Why do you have to buy the cow if you only want a glass of milk??!!
The next door neighbor is black, African, Jew or Muslim (just to say them all). Does his/her legal-status make a difference in terms of culture?. If it does, please please explain to me how!
If I like Turkish Kebabs, I must accept a Turk lives next to me.
If my eras enjoy songs of black singers, I must accept a black lives next to me.
If I like a black footballer, I must accept a black lives next to me.
If I am suffering from racism, xenophobia or Islam phobia, this has no remedy.
A note on how to become popular: If anybody wants to get noticed, talk about any of the above four categories.
@ a.m. cardona
Do you read local papers? I don’t think so
@ Jas Grech
You brought up to mind the harassment of tourist by (BLONDY) English Languages students.
Despite the legislation has been passed, they are still "creeping" around.