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PeraclesPlease — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:31:00 +0000

In reply to Italy used to be a tolerant

Sad, though worth having an idea of what's the maximum influx of unlike people who might move into an area before resistance starts to develop. Certainly has to do with how big the local population is, along with race and religion, but also the types of receiving culture between Japan and Norway and Kuwait and Germany and Texas and Italy and Hungary and California.... I remember reading about the fishing flareups around Galveston with the new Vietnamese immigrants (and a funny story about a friend who rented a flat to a Vietnamese family and found they replaced some of the cabinet doors with chicken wire to raise chickens...).

Somewhere between uncaring and cruel vs. overaccommodating and foolish lies a happy-ish medium.

Italy used to be a tolerant

artappraiser — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 07:49:53 +0000

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Italy used to be a tolerant country, but now racism is rising

The upcoming election has unleashed a tide of anti-migrant action, whose roots can be traced to the financial crisis and the country’s weakened leftwing

By Angela Giuffrida @ The Observer @ TheGuardian.com, Feb. 17

Pape Diaw, originally from Senegal, arrived in Florence to study engineering in the late 1970s. Part of a group of 15 African students, he inspired curiosity among his Italian counterparts and the wider community, but never encountered racism. “I remember walking along the street and people would ask to have a photo taken,” he said. “We were seen as a novelty, but never insulted. When we went to process our residency permits, the police officers would give us coffee. “Yes, Italy might have been behind [other countries] when it came to cultural mindset, but we were well-received.”

Different times. Ahead of national elections on 4 March, xenophobic rhetoric is dominating a campaign that has turned nasty and divisive. Matters took a toxic turn earlier this month, when 28-year-old Luca Traini injured six African migrantsin a racially motivated shooting spree in the central city of Macerata.

Traini had been a candidate at local elections last year for the Northern League, one of two anti-migrant parties that form part of a motley coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia. Both the League and its junior ally, Brothers of Italy, are crusading on an “Italians First” platform, targeting the 600,000 migrants who have landed on Italy’s southern shores over the past four years [.....]

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Italy used to be a tolerant