Sweeping statements on Sliema people

One would expect the Education Channel to impart precisely what it has been coined to represent, that is, a choice for an audience in search of knowledge and learning.

Sadly, however, this is not the case when it comes to the progamme Minn Lenti Interkulturali. It is ironic to watch the presenter, Maria Muscat, so eager to help immigrants to integrate into our society but at one and the same time discriminate against our own Maltese citizens.

I was shocked and hurt while listening in disbelief to repetitive sweeping statements targeted at the Sliema people. I am not from Sliema myself but nevertheless I am Maltese and find this internal prejudice, stabbing our own people in the back with a smile, to be unacceptable.

Ms Muscat rather blatantly referred to Sliema residents as unwelcoming and snobbish in some three interventions. Does it not occur to her that this is discriminatory in itself, fanning the flames of an already existent though unfounded split between north and south? I find this approach insulting at best and dangerous at worst.