Yesterday night I watched Elisir on Italian television and, after that, a documentary about cultural and social changes pre and post 1968. I really must get it in UK as it is always good to see another way of looking at what is going on around us.
In both countries intelligent programmes are shown too late so one goes to bed incredibly late. Is it done because 'they' think one will not watch (one must go to work/school etc.) or because the great majority prefers diabolically stupid (yet mind-controlling) shows/soaps etc?
Educational apartheid was discussed. A Lega Veneta MP (one of Bossi's man if you are not familiar with Lega Veneta. And if you are not familiar with Bossi's name either, one of those who thinks foreigners dilute and eventually destroy Italian culture. There are lots of them in every country, UK included.) tried to say that 'new comers had to be taught Italian before joining Italian children in schools'. It sounds perfectly acceptable to many but you must look beyond this immediate acceptability.
'Foreign labour' is cheaper. Exploitation is rife. Ghettos are growing in number. Why? Because the majority is in denial and racism is alive in different shapes and forms. Europe is rotten to the core.There is so much fear of change. Why? Are people afraid to discover that there is more to life than what they know? Again, why?
America might spark a profound change with Obama. Not a black man but a man with a white mother and an African father. His mother's memory is at the centre of a revival in blogs and various search engines. I like this as it highlights the fact that two cultures are better than one. I watched him speak in Tampa yesterday and I saw hope in his followers. We all need a change. His rival, who acts and looks as a robot, is an empty shell peddling old slogans and offering more of the same poison. Will Americans start dreaming again? I hope so, for our sake.
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