Posted on 03/05/2011 7:44:44 AM PST by GOPsterinMA
... Italy is the latest Western European country turning the screws on an expanding immigrant population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, citizenship. While enacted last year in the name of integration, these requirements also reflect anxiety that foreigners might dilute fiercely-prized national identity or even, especially in Britain's case, pose terror risks. ...
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“Northern League leader Umberto Bossi’s influence in government has grown ever stronger, his rhetoric often laced with a racist tinge. Bossi once referred to immigrants as “bingo bongos” and has suggested that migrant smugglers’ boats off Italy’s shores be fired upon with cannons.”
I love this guy, can we run for president here?
WTH, citizenship requirements are null and void, right?
Disgusting! Information should be available in at least five languages! Doesn’t Italy know we are living in a global community? Sarcasm mine :)
haRUMPF!
Actually, I do love Italy. Need to plan a trip back there sometime soon.
Northern Italy would be the 4th or 5th wealthiest country in Europe, except for one thing:
Southern Italy.
MOST EXCELLENT!!!
“Lega Nord” is one of the few regionalist/separatist parties in Europe that isn’t of the far left variety.
If Italian women were having kids, he may have a point, but they aren’t.
Brava, Italia.
Half-Italian Freeper here. Been to Europe more than 5 times in my life, and even visited the ancestral home of my great, great grandfather in Naples.
Contrary to popular belief, the Euros, especially the Spaniards, are what passes as “racists” in today’s pc America. Spaniards in general, do not like blacks for example. Italians have shown the same tendencies. I dare anyone to say otherwise. Here in America, why would I like a certain culture like the mexicans, when they in return shown no respect for the country?
We should have an English requirement here just like my forefathers had to learn.
Extremely high praise for ITALY. In the USA, the PC bigots are robbing the immigrant and children of immigrants (legal) of their futures, all in the name of “good feelings”.
Millions of adult immigrants came to the US from around the world, bringing with them their culture, language, humor, music and customs. Many adults never learned English, living in communities of their countrymen, BUT THEIR CHILDREN WERE EDUCATED in American schools, learning American history, American geography, and the language, ENGLISH. Before long, the children of those immigrants called themselves AMERICANS, and in a couple of generations, now run the country and are the country.
When my grandfather came here from Southern Italy as a shoeless 14 year old he learned English. In fact, I was told he forbade anything BUT English to be spoken in his home. He also changed his name to “sound more American” and got his citizenship by fighting for the USA in WW1. He was also the only Republican out of all his brothers that followed him here.
He never went back to Italy to visit, and I've been told that when my grandmother did go back, a few years after WW2 ended, he was apoplectic. His mentality was he left a third world toilet to come here and this was his country, period. No need to ever go back there.
Unfortunately, I never got to meet him, as he died decades before I was hatched.
Suffice to say, immigrants like my grandfather DO NOT exist anymore.
Multiculturalism was invented by the cultural Marxist-—all Political Correctness is—to destroy logic and reason and create a society built on “emotionalism” and what feels good.
They use it to destroy a society. It has been known since Babel that this is just one of their tools to divide. Marxism is all about hatred of one group for another...it is why they infiltrated all movements...Feminism (hatred for men), homosexuality (hatred for God and Bible), MultiC—hatred and resentment of other races (particularly white one)—Unions (class warfare), etc. It is all to DIVIDE and formate hate....especially by those useful idiots who will riot and kill.
If you do not use intellect for your legal system you are screwed. Holmes put us on the Marxian road in early 1900’s. We have to get back to the basis of Just Law, which requires EQUAL laws for everyone......not political laws based on man’s whim to favor some over others—it always creates hate.
Natural Law Theory is the basis of Just Law-—Any laws that go against this theory can never be Just according to Founders and Cicero (I am such a Cicero fan!!!!) He gave his life for Rome and tried to restore it to a Republic.
Agree. Northern Italy has a hard working very American style economy.
Southern Italy. LOL. I love the place and people there, but it is a different place
I can relate. My grandfather came to the USA from France; changed the spelling of our last name so it would be more “American” and he too never went or looked back. Good post. Thanks.
Back @ you!
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