I believe that xenophobia is a common problem in Malta showing ignorance and should therefore be addressed. Ignoring a problem has never made it disappear.

tal muzew…
mhux ekk jew..history shiha niddefendu u niggieldu ghal pajjizna u tigi int tghid li din l art ta cinizi u ta kulhadd. u leee biex irridu niddefenduh dal pajjiz ta. tal biza’

Dan mignun jew?

Nahseb qed jghid ghal dak id-demm li kien hemm mohli l-Marsa fit-toroq……

Silvio, Malta la hi tac-Cinizi, la tal-Maltin u ta’ hadd. Kieku dawn in-nies kellhom jigu bil-passport normali, jakkwistaw work permit normali, x’fastidju jaghtuk lilek? Ma taghmillekx differenza jekk jigux klandestinament jew legalment; xorta kienu se jigu, allura ghax ghandhom il-gilda sewda qed idejquk? Ir-Russi li qed jidhlu klandestinament ma jdejqukx, ghax gingrin?

Ma nahsibx li ghandha x’taqsam jekk intiex gay jew le. Meta tmur taghti d-demm dejjem isaqsik jekk kellekx relazzjoni dawn l-ahhar 6 xhur, gay u mhux gay.

What’s that supposed to mean. Are artists now politicians, and do they now have to submit their raison d’etre to the fit with Mr Vella’s agenda?

What sort of inconsequential reasoning is that? Should I now start criticisng Mr Vella for not starting a hunger strike in protest against racism in Malta?

Is Adrian Buckle’s production of Is-Surmast filled with sex and masturbation? Is Adrian Buckle’s production of The Alchemist filled with sex and masturbation? Is ‘Paul’ or ‘The Pillowman’ filled with sex and masturbation?

Like your response to Vella Gera, oh I have no time to read your book or your response to Adrian Buckle of ‘Mercury Fur ( “I read the synopsis so I know what the play is about”), you strike me as a very vapid person. The sort of person who will make the kindt of glib remark of ‘why doesn’t the church melt its gold to feed the poor’? Not realising that the gold does not belong to the church but the people who paid for it and the gold is more precious for its art then its weight. And more importantly would come nowhere to saving the world’s poor.

But hey ho that’s the price we pay for democracy. And I for one would not want to see Mr Vella’s writing censored.

No it wasn’t my intention to speak of the EU as some “other”, obviously we are part of it and ought to be rightly proud of such fact.

What I meant is that due to our geographic position, we, as a highly-densely populated country, find ourselves receiving MORE than our fair share of immigrants. Whereas other countries especially those not bordering on the med, equally involuntarily receive very few immigrants, even though they have a much larger area as a countries and fewer people per km/2.

This just happens since naturally a boat in search of land veers towards the first land it sees…

What could be done better is that each EU country’s population density gets measured taking into consideration obviously the size of the land and the amount of people per sq km. Then these unfortunate asylum-seekers be distributed so that their impact is felt the least by all, and so that no country suffers undue hardship.

Checking this table here….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_and_population_of_European_countries

….one can see that Malta has a population density of 1260 people per square kilometer, placing 4th in population density after Monaco, Gibraltar (part of the UK) and the Vatican City. However one can safely assume that very few if any boats with asylym-seekers aboard happen to find themselves in an area where they have to be relocated to either Monaco or the Vatican……

By comparison, the UK has a population density of only 244 people per square kilometer (less than one fifth of Malta’s population density!) and Germany 233. Italy’s is of 192 people per square km, France of 109 people per sq km, (remember Malta’s hefty 1260 per sq km!!!), Greece 81 people per sq km, Latvia 37, Estonia 31, and Norway 14…