I sympathise with Alfred Palma (The Sunday Times, May 5) and I assure him of my wholehearted moral support.

It seems that we Maltese, despite being completely independent, members of the European Union with our own language and our unstinting efforts to make our Malta known worldwide, still harbour the traits of our inferiority inherent from colonial days.

We never learn.

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