Ideologically-charged language

In his Letter To An Illegal Immigrant (September 1), Joseph M. Cachia writes about the problem of African immigration as he perceives it, having read, one presumes, comments posted on The Times comment section. I thought the letter was a good example...

In his Letter To An Illegal Immigrant (September 1), Joseph M. Cachia writes about the problem of African immigration as he perceives it, having read, one presumes, comments posted on The Times comment section.

I thought the letter was a good example of what Herbert Marcuse called "the reality problem". Reading between the lines, the perceived problems of the Maltese were projected onto Africa and Africans, which are mentioned 10 times in the letter.

The reality is that the Tuareg of the Saharan interior, for instance, have as much in common with the administrative tribes of 20th-century Sudan as Greeks have with Norwegians. Besides, the use of such ideologically-charged language can only increase the risk of further acts of genocide, for this is what immigration is.

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