interesting article! how some people can still conceive of the fact that more ethnic groups can live together still do not understand! We have always had the America that teaches the impossibility of this happening ... and more Italians are convinced that with their kindness what you can! Meanwhile we must deal with events like this! Racism is not bear the smell of fried garlic? Francesco Lamendola - 17/10/2008
Some time ago, the writer Ferdinando Camon asked in the title of an article deliberately provocative, is not racism bear the Jamaicans? With all respect for Camon, the title was perhaps ill-chosen, gave, in fact, the impression that there was, for its part, a ruling against of this or that particular ethnic group of immigrants. While reading it, it seemed clear that the negative evaluation was not directed at any ethnic group as such, but to conduct it undertook in the context of our social reality such as urinating in the lobby of a condominium. Obviously, there's nothing wrong with that to urinate on the bare ground, near a tropical forest, especially in the absence of toilets and drains, but, on the marble or tiles of a private building, that's a different aspect . Well, this kind of behavior Camon alluded in his article. Not that it's habit of immigrants, in general, to urinate in the halls or on the stairs of apartment buildings, it was a simple example. The substance of the speech, however, was clear: a minimum amount of conduct, short of a social reality totally different from the origin of many immigrants, creating an overview intolerable. Because life is made of many, many small things, but if several of them, without being sensational or dramatic, are, however, frankly unpleasant, then life becomes problematic. And the most embarrassing thing is that nobody seems to have colpa.Un immigrants from faraway countries brings with it, of course, a number of customs and habits, legitimate and justified in their environment, are incongruous, severely annoying or harassing, outside of it. Now, make mutually acceptable habits among residents of the same block, or the same street or within the same district, is something that requires patience and willingness to deal with another, possibly changing something from every one, but not always easy, even among members of a community. Then, when communities are ten, twenty or thirty, each different from each other, and when these are placed roughly thirty communities, sometimes traumatically, in a social fabric already in precarious balance, if only for the overpopulation and degradation of many suburbs: then the effect is simply to pay devastante.E the highest price are always the weakest members of society. Those who live, precisely in the concrete barracks or in the suburbs of crumbling buildings of historic centers in the process of degradation, and the most vulnerable people, particularly the elderly who do not have a car, going grocery shopping in shops under house living with fatigue, a skimpy pension and holidays do not even know what siano.I micro behaviors of many immigrants are a factor of strong discomfort for those social groups and those groups who do not live in residential neighborhoods a hill, surrounded by greenery and dotted with villas with three or four cars and sports cars in the garage, which can not circumvent the unpleasant aspects of promiscuity and already living with the discomfort of their condition in middle-class way of an example ground proletarizzazione.Facciamo terra.In one evening in August, after a hot and muggy day, a retiree or a pensioner facing the balcony to some enjoy a little gust of cool breeze. The city has been emptied, relatives and acquaintances are on vacation somewhere, and even most of the shops are closed, and find a pharmacy is an almost desperate. On television, for a change, do not do anything at all: no wasted decent performances for the four unfortunates who stay at home, neither the Rai nor the private TV stations are willing to commit to the viewing figures so low. Do not even deign to broadcast, for the tenth time, some classic Hollywood as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or the usual western with John Wayne.Dunque, our age or our pensioners, who do not have a conditioner ' air because it costs too much, after a hot and frustrating day, facing the balcony to revive with a little fresh air. But here is a very strong smell of fried garlic salt from the open windows of Asian immigrants on the floor below, a smell that gets to the throat and, in our food culture is perceived as repulsive as to please - and apparently like it - in other contexts culturali.È goes without saying that the only solution is a speedy retreat. Farewell cool breeze of the evening! But not enough to even take refuge in the home: the smell gets inside, it settles all over the world: we must also close all windows tightly. And go to bed soaked with sweat, knowing that it will close eye and you will count the hours you play from the nearby belfry, one after another, till dawn. Now, let's say that the smell of fried garlic not it gives off only in the evening, but stagnation around the clock across the courtyard, across the street. Suppose that an unbridled ethnic music at full volume, spilling from an open window and assaults the eardrums of the entire neighborhood. Suppose that, on the stairs of the entrance policy, a group of African he is sitting almost continuously to smoke and chat, watching those who pass and forcing them to make a gymkhana to get to the door. Assume that this is prolonged even after dinner, and that, under cover of darkness, someone took the opportunity to sneak under the tree and pee without bothering to go home. Suppose that the Albanians on the third floor, which has no garage, parking his car, every day that God sends, right in front of a neighbor's garage, oblivious to all the prayers and requests to allow free passage. And let's say that two Moroccan families, who live on the second one o'clock and the other on the third floor, have a habit of talking through their terraces, perhaps until late at night, laughing and talking loudly when our retirees would want to rest, or to stretch out the sheets to dry in front of the windows of those who live under, leaving them hanging until they touch the railing and removing the light and the visuale.Come you can see, almost none of the behaviors we have described can be described as illegal - subject to the rules of the house rules - and even less, as illegal. But each of them is annoying, more or less, and adding them all together, this results in a situation of genuine invivibilità for those who, in one way or in that house, we were born and lived forever, and hoped to die there in peace, without having to considered an expensive and painful removal: where to go, then? Therefore, there is no question of Jamaicans, the Senegalese or Romanians, it is a matter of abitudini.Non learn to respect other people's habits overnight, maybe not One learns at all, if you do not even have the perception of doing something improper or wrong. Does not learn to queue in a post office, if you are convinced that, unleashing a certain degree of aggressiveness, you can get right to the door. Does not learn to park your car properly, if the neighbor for fear of suffering in silence. Do not even learn to pee at home and not in the garden below the house, if all the other silent for a fear that protesting could be considered razzisti.Già: razzisti.Razzisti not stand because the sum of all these micro behaviors that make their lives impossibile.E we have not talked about the crime itself: neither of the most striking - prostitution , drug abuse - or that at a minimum: the continuous theft of bicycles or mopeds, vandalism in public buildings, trains or on the courier, the disappearance of clothes hung out to dry, toys for children left in the yard, even slippers plastic left on the doormat outside the porta.Sappiamo perfectly well that not all immigrants behave like this, and we know that some of these behaviors may also belong to the "style" of many, too many Italians. Verissimo.Ma the problem does not move an inch, or even become worse. In fact, we must resign ourselves to the addition to the growing problem of our society, even those of tens of micro-foreign, which often show no desire to integrate, rather, to be honest, not even respect the most elementary rules of good neighborly because it does not know them, and because no one enforces them, and they consider any lawful behavior? We have nothing, absolutely nothing, nor against the Jamaicans, nor against any other people living on the land of good God all deserve respect, understanding and goodwill; and no people can be said to be superior to another. From this, however, does not follow that Italy or Europe can become, within a few years, the place where we must necessarily make us happy smell of fried garlic, even if you give us sick, we have become accustomed Arabic music played at full volume, even at rest, we leave the bike scrub the house, comforted with the thought that someone else, poor thing, maybe I needed it most of us. Or that we must consider the fact that normal, next door, live and sleep at least fourteen Chinese anagrafe not reported, while for even a far less serious conduct by an Italian family, take suffered the penalties prescribed by legge.Ancora, we say that opening up to other than their personal habits is a cultural thing positive that broadens the horizons, enriching our wealth of experience. But who talks like playing a little 'dirty, because neither specifies what is meant exactly for "Apriso habits differ from their own." Accept the puddles and the stench of urine on the stairs, take the radio at full blast; accept the car parked in front of his garage: this means that, these are the experiences that enrich, de-provincialization and open mind? E Then, we forget that the experiences that enrich are those freely chosen, or those that are incurred, but for the work of nature (eg, a long illness), not the ones that our fellows upon us with arrogance. This kind of experience, in most cases, produce only frustration, bitterness and resentment. Not produce an expansion of consciousness, but a narrowing; they come to the surface the less beautiful than ourselves. Not everyone can have the serenity of a mystical Olympic. Most people react badly to bullying, that reacts incattivendosi.I our politicians know, or ought to know. Of course, in their villas in the hills with the blue car and the aero free ticket, with the holidays booked from the Maldives or Puerto Rico, the U.S. clinic where health problems (or, simply, aesthetics), they do not even imagine what it means to live in a barracks with sixty or seventy percent of immigrants, or in a dilapidated building in the center of the degradation, which speaks only Bengali , Brazil or Senegal, where the courtyard and the stairs are impregnated permanently smell of fried garlic. Therefore preach the virtues of tolerance, thunder against racism, pontificating about the incomparable beauty of the multi-ethnic society. So, it costs him niente.Però should also know that situations of human groups with promiscuous habits are very different from their own source of great discomfort, a discomfort goal, which is not at all pretentious or artificial. A genuine hardship which is not remedied with beautiful parole.E should know that even the most gentle and tolerant people of this world is in danger of becoming a racist, a bit 'at a time, if he is forced to live in a good esasperanti.Farebbero think: after all, a fabulous place to earn money to address social problems, not to deliver homilies, sermons and sermon so sweet, as insulsi.L 'experience shows that when a social problem is ignored, it ends up going to that cancrena.Dopo , it would take to solve the magicians, not politici.E of our politicians, of magic, they only have the ability to gobble up public money and to find ways for each new term, the further increase the salary.
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