Yeah? Then why don`t you?

There are many more all over the world. Luckily the Australian people accepted them other wise where would they be now.

Why don’t you people accept the refugees? It’s funny here in Australia, we have refugees here, the people making the most noise about them settling here are the migrants of the 40s and 50s.

While we like Malta, we unfortunately do not like the Maltese people all that much. My wife is more forgiving and generous than me, but even she is taken aback by the rudeness and stupidity of Maltese people. Sorry, but it is true.

I wish it wasn’t so, but it is true to say that generally speaking, Maltese people are badly educated. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but I have to say that for every five Maltese, only one may be good.

I can give you many examples of bad behavior and rudeness from the Maltese. A bus driver who didn’t let my wife on the bus because he didn’t have the right change – she had only a five euro note. She was told she could not board AND IT WAS RAINING.

Our neighbor downstairs who appears to have a workshop even though we are in a residential area. On Christmas morning at 8am he decided to use his electric saw to cut wood. On Christmas morning! When I complained, he yelled that I should go back my country. So I yelled back: hey, my country has 100,000 Maltese – maybe the Australian government should ship them all back to Malta.

I can give you many examples of absolute stupidity and callousness and rudeness here in Malta. Yes, we have stupid and rude people everywhere, but Malta appear to have more per capita. They are normally stupid and rude to each other, but ESPECIALLY to foreigners.

I remember clearly one day in a cafe the day after the earthquake in Haiti. We watched it on TV. I said to the Maltese waitress, what a tragedy it was for the people. I will never forget her reply: “Oh, that can happen anywhere!” She shrugged her shoulders and walked away to serve us stale, rotten food that made us feel ill the next day.

So to sum up, the only reason my wife and I stay in Malta, is because of teh lovely weather and a few nice beaches and friends we have made. One or two are Maltese, but only because they have themselves married foreigners. There are two very distinct communities in Malta, actually three: the Maltese; the British; the Europeans and the bottom of the pile, the poor unfortunate Africans.

My wife who grew up in Africa, was initially puzzled by the Africans here in Malta. Normally African people are happy people who smile and are cheerful. She said she has never seen such miserable Africans before.

Now we know the answer. BECAUSE THEY ARE HERE IN MALTA and have to suffer the brutality and ignorance of the Maltese people! No wonder why they look so miserable. Life is hard for any refugee, but to be a refugee in Malta – oh my God!

Amen

However, I’m not against having people of any background being able to voice an opinion (however stupid or ignorant it might be) or of having timesofmalta showing all the comments irrespective of their content value. I think that timesofmalta.com should offer the possibility for people to press “LIKE” or “DISLIKE” individual comments and the comment would have a counter showing the total number of “LIKE”/”DISLIKE” hits.

Like this, a comment will be given the weight it merits…

[Daphne – Or not.]

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110407/local/probation-for-man-who-prostituted-his-girlfriend

That’s funny – Now for something sad, look at the syntax of this piece of journalistic brilliance. Painful to read and I’m not referring to the content of the article.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110404/local/court

“Popular singer-songwriter James Blunt flew in by private jew early this afternoon for his concert at the Valletta Waterfront this evening.”

Can’t be much more rock-star than that. Come flying on a rabbi with wings.

It seems to me that those thumbing their nose at immigrants are the ones who, through political favouritism and sheer luck, did not have to leave our shores and join the thousands of their own brethren, starting a new life thousands of miles away. Many thousands found it impossible to stay in the 50s, 60s and 70s.

Those emigrants did not land at their new adopted homeland stepping on red carpets. They had to start from scratch, many a time their qualifications, certificates and diplomas were useless having been told that ‘they meant absolutely nothing’.

So, to assume that these immigrants are having it too easy and stealing bread from our mouths, just for a change, think hard about it. As difficult as it was for emigrants from this island, to leave family, friends, their towns and their customs, it is equally heart-breaking for these unfortunate immigrants to sever their ties with all they had been brought up with, irrespective of their living standard.

It seems that we Maltese have it in our DNA that we expect the world to owe us a privileged position and that we have absolute rights of getting something, for nothing in return.