In cases like that happened a few days ago in Rome's words of consolation and justification may make us feel better, but they should not hide the truth, however harsh: Sebastian, Helen Patrick, Eldeban and Raoul are not the first children Roma died in the fire in a dilapidated hut and certainly will not be the last. Sooner or later a new tragedy happens, we'll see the same desperation in the eyes of parents, who feel the same words as you bounce the responsibility. We must thank the President Napolitano was able to express, through the efficacy of a gesture - that paternal caress and private - our pain and our despair. But we can not stop this.
I know that the theme of acceptance of the Roma is one of those that divide, but this is not a reason not to address it. When it comes to Roma, Gypsies, usually tones are raised, the controversy you are cutting. Two face each other with this emphasis minorities. On the one hand there are those who can schematically define the "bad guys" are those who say that the Roma do not work because they do not want to work and prefer to steal, those who say that it is useless to spend their resources as they are no longer recoverable, those they say that the houses should be given to the Italians and so on, we heard all the footage a few days ago. On the other hand there are the good guys: are those who, with the same unwavering safety first, find a justification for whatever they do the Roma, who complain that the society of their difficulties in finding a job, to join those who think that should be in front of the reception sacrificed every other principle. None of these will help solve the problem. Between these two poles there is the majority of people, those who watch the Roma with suspicion and fear, those who say the problem is too complex, those who say that after all there are far more serious problems. They are the majority - we are the majority - and then inevitably it evades the issue, you leave. The day after the tragedy the Corriere della Sera reported the news in news, the inside pages, after the so-called political commentary and news from Egypt, after a few days the news has ceased to be such, and then deleted from the newspaper. The powder was quickly put under the carpet.
Roma have already spoken to other "considerations" - the no. 154 and nr. 166, to be precise - trying to explain what I mean by comfort level. If you want to try those thoughts, which I do not want to go back today to concentrate on another issue.
The presence of the Roma, as well as questions relating to social policy choices of the various administrations, it should also make us reflect on the complex relationship that exists in our society - for the sake of brevity called European, although there are considerable differences from each other - between the majority and the minorities, often numerically large, cultures, lifestyles and religions. I find it quite strange that on this issue, at least in Europe - in Italy do not say it here and we always talk about only one thing - you're exerting the most conservative and progressive front: I personally think that this is a cause, not a minor, the current difficulties of the European left to talk with citizens. Before then David Cameron and Angela Merkel, who lead countries where immigration is a very significant phenomenon, spoke the end of multiculturalism, a few days ago, the Cardinal Ravasi, "foreign minister" of Benedict XVI, spoke of the need to replace the multicultural approach to intercultural.
I want to bring some reflections Ravasi that I think are particularly interesting.
need to build a comparison that is not confrontation, in which the values \u200b\u200bare communicated without losing its identity: a sort of cultural coexistence, very delicate and complex.
Multiculturalism is a fact of life since ancient times, but today has become emblematic in the city, where you see coexistence of diverse cultural identities, sometimes almost of fundamentalisms that are next to each other: with sparks clashes.
dialogue, as stated in this beautiful Greek word, presupposes the dia-logos, and then the relationship between the two logos. This means that intercultural did not as a destination identification, construction of a single global society. The temptation was to multicultural
the duel, the strongest can take more space. What we need to create intercultural awareness is rather a duet, in which music can be composed of a bass and a soprano. What could be more different for those two items? And because there is harmony, is it necessary that the bass and soprano singing in falsetto tone down?
No, the main thing is to have a strong sense of identity, why do not you box without a face.
I think, from what happens in our country with the difficulties of a coexistence increasingly difficult to end up with what's happening in the world, particularly in the southern coasts of the Mediterranean, this is a reflection to be developed carefully.
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