I can’t stand people who pretend to be something they’re not because they think what they really are is not acceptable
I find it oddly baffling that (some of) those who speak English with an American accent when they left California at 15 and that was 35 years ago, who loathe the fact that they feel the need to pretend to be something they’re not as otherwise they will not be accepted by the people whose society they crave, who think of themselves as American even though they have spent their entire adult life in Mosta, who hate the fact that their parents dragged them back from California and dumped them right in the thick of primitive late 1970s Malta because they were rabid Mintoffians, their uncle was a Mintoffian minister and they thought it was a good time to return, and who generally despise, mock and ridicule anything to do with the Nationalist Party they were raised by their Mintoffian parents to detest, have suddenly discovered an OTT progressive and liberal fervour which rivals that of the late, unlamented Mintoffian minister Philip Muscat.
So much falsity.
So much hypocrisy.
So much pretending to be something we’re not: a Laburista minn guf omma, who was lucky enough to learn English in California as otherwise she wouldn’t have learned it at all, given her socio-political background.
Please stop sneering, Josanne, and just come out of the closet in your real political colours.
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Spoken like someone who has nothing to lose.
Is she still freelance?
What a try-hard with her ‘oddly baffling’. As they’d say in Mosta: lol.
What did Philip Muscat do? He was also mentioned in the post of Marlene Farrugia. What is the deal with him? Thanks!
I thought she was against the scheme.
http://josannecassar.com/opinion/this-goes-beyond-partisan-politics/#comment-16324
Since Josanne mentioned football (she should have said soccer due to her American background), I have realised that the citizenship for sale law passed by Muscat and his band of not-so-merry men is also bound to land us into trouble with UEFA, the European football federation.
At present, UEFA limits the number of players who do not hold an EU passport who can be contracted by every team registered to an association affiliated to it. If I am not mistaken, that number is limited to three.
This inevitably causes problems for South American and Asian players who want to move to European teams to rake in the big money. Up till now the only way around this was finding ‘ancestors’ who are citizens of an EU country and trying to obtain a passport off their backs.
The process so far was laborious and time-consuming. So inevitably you find a lot of Brazilian players holding Portuguese passports and Argentinians holding Spanish passports playing in the major European teams. South American players who play in the EU on their passport of origin are far fewer.
Joseph Muscat has thus given the European football circus a handy shortcut to do away with this restriction which was designed to safeguard European football talent. It also happens to be cheap considering the figures paid for player transfers.
By next season I guess we’ll be seeing lots of ‘Maltese’ players playing in the Premier League, Liga and Serie A.
What a tedious woman.