Comments on: Am I the only one who's sick to the eye-teeth of condescending British expatriates? https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:19:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tony Pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22264 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:19:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22264 Remember the BRA, the British Residents Association. I thought their wings had been clipped, or maybe they died a natural death. Now I know better. Martin Day must be their spokesman – pompous, patronising, snotty-nosed twits.

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22263 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:42:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22263 And I’m sick to the eye-teeth of this kind of crass ignorance:

“Cutajar (2 hours, 8 minutes ago)
On which base the Italian police has the right to confiscate the sum? So if I go in Gozo with a sum therefore I am breaking the law?”

(Posted here:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090223/local/italian-police-confiscate-36-334-from-maltese-driver )

]]> By: Marku https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22262 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:42:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22262 Emanuel Muscat: are you IGalea in disguise?

]]> By: John Meilak https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22261 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:39:52 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22261 He can go to Zimbabwe. It’ll feel like home away from home.

]]> By: Emanuel Muscat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22260 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:41:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22260 @John Meilak
The Englishman you are referring to probably agrees with you about the mess the UK is in and like the half a million or so real english people who annually leave the UK forever, he is trying to find a place where sanity and traditional values are still important, such as in Gozo.And of course DCG can offend them and they are clever and polite enough to see through the flak!

[Daphne – Keep it going with that ‘wisdom of the people’, Emanuel.]

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22259 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:59:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22259 Like some others, Mr Day is faithfully repeating what FAA already said. I hope that at least he knows how to spell elf.

]]> By: John Meilak https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22258 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:25:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22258 A case of the kettle calling the pot black. That Englishman should look at the mess of his own country before he starts criticizing others.

[Daphne – Now I really don’t like that attitude.]

]]> By: John https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22257 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:24:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22257 It’s not just a question of amusement. Gozo has figured as a focus of these pastimes in British Forensic/Medical texbooks.

]]> By: Mario P https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22256 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:41:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22256 Chicken? How can you amuse yourself with a chicken?

[Daphne – Don’t ask me. This isn’t the Bestiality Gazette.]

]]> By: D B https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/am-i-the-only-one-whos-sick-to-the-eye-teeth-of-condescending-british-expatriates/#comment-22255 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1811#comment-22255 well there is no need to get over myself since i am not in the least offended by the comment and in no way i was defending gozo natives.. what i found amusing were your double standards… this is not about passports, daphne, this is as you have put it outsiders vs insiders and these are not determined by passports.. in other words if you were native of gozo your comment would not be condescending but since you are malta native it is, given the peculiar habit of malta natives treating gozo natives as inferior.. issa .. you can be funny as much as you like about gozo natives, believe me you are not d first and you wont be the last i will not get offended I promise… however i would not have commented if it were not in the context of outsiders condescending on insiders

[Daphne – Sorry, but you missed the point of my piece, which is about outsiders – as in non-citizens – settling down in a foreign country and patronising the natives, and how this is completely unacceptable whereas poking fun at your compatriots is perfectly all right. Yes, it is about passports. People who live in Gozo like to think of themselves as ‘Gozitans’, but in actual fact they’re as Maltese as I am. I’d like to see them trying to get through US passport control by claiming they’re Gozitan. This is why I really can’t stand the insistence in many quarters on speaking about ‘Malta and Gozo’ as though they are two separate countries. ‘Gozo’ comes within the territorial definition of ‘Malta’. People who live in Gozo might think it sucks, but tough: the country is called Malta, not Malta and Gozo.]

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