In the Chinese press: “Malta’s dream interconnected with Chinese dream – minister”
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June 21, 2014 at 8:45pm
Apparently, in China every person is respected and everyone can live happily and serenely – that is the goal for Malta. But did Helena Dalli really say that? Her staff are out of the office right now, so I can’t ask them.
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http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0621/c90883-8744569.html
Does the minister know that China is a communist country which does not tolerate opposition?
Do you honestly think she does?
That ”small”detail does not seem to bother the British government or Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth during last week’s visit of the Chinese delegation for some lucrative business deals.
Ignoring that for business is one thing, but going all out to state that the foundation of a ‘just and fair society’ is dependent on China’s aims as expressed by its government is quite another.
Can someone explain to me what is meant by “multicultural society” please? Assuming such a society is possible, does one exist anywhere?
Does a country with several cultures, each in its own ghetto, qualify as a multicultural society or is each ghetto a society on its own independently of the others?
Do the majority of Maltese agree with the “integration” of African immigrants within Maltese society?
If the majority do not agree, would it be moral and democratic to force it on them?
Who can guarantee that a “multicultural society”, if such lies within the realm of the possible, will guarantee the greatest happiness for the greatest number better than a homogenous society as Malta enjoyed up to just two decades ago?
I merely ask questions that arise from my concern for my country and my people, for my descendants. Does anyone know the answers? Is anyone prepared to shoulder the responsibility?
A ‘multicultural society’ does not refer to an ideal or a goal for any given society, but merely a state of fact about that society.
A multicultural society is one where there is a high degree of diversity from a high percentage of immigration.
The term does not mean that it is good or bad to have a multicultural society, and it does not mean that a multicultural society does not have internal problems.
In 2010, an Australian study found that Luxembourg is the most multicultural society in the world, followed by Australia and Switzerland in second place.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-11-17/australia-second-most-multicultural-country/2339884
Since multiculturalism is a fact that results from the particular historic development of a country, governments in multicultural countries adopt policies that respect the multicultural diversity.
I am. I am violently opposed to Chinese culture.
Daphne, I need to send you something via email.
[Daphne – dcgalizia@gmail.com]
Sure, Tiananmen Square anyone?!
Rejuvenation doesn’t mean that “everybody is respected and lives happily”.
A “dream of rejuvenation” takes us back to the search for the fountain of youth.
Liu Ping was tortured in China recently, to extract a confession.
http://www.chrdnet.com/2014/06/china-reverse-travesty-of-justice-free-persecuted-human-rights-defenders-in-jiangxi/
http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/world-report-2012-china
‘…..Against a backdrop of rapid socio-economic change and modernization, China continues to be an authoritarian one-party state that imposes sharp curbs on freedom of expression, association, and religion; openly rejects judicial independence and press freedom; and arbitrarily restricts and suppresses human rights defenders and organizations, often through extra-judicial measures.
The government also censors the internet; maintains highly repressive policies in ethnic minority areas such as Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia; systematically condones—with rare exceptions—abuses of power in the name of “social stability” ; and rejects domestic and international scrutiny of its human rights record as attempts to destabilize and impose “Western values” on the country. The security apparatus—hostile to liberalization and legal reform—seems to have steadily increased its power since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. China’s “social stability maintenance” expenses are now larger than its defense budget…..’
The moment I googled ‘human rights in China’ the browser was flooded with China friendly ‘news’.
What’s worrying is the paragraph dealing with China’s methods, call it investment, to penetrate and subdue African countries.
“Obviously, it is very hard to achieve this for everybody,”…….so we are focusing on making this possible for the Taghna Lkoll crowd.
“China – Joseph Muscat’s wet dream.”
I don’t know about Chinese dreams, but I wouldn’t want to be an underdog their kitchens.
The nearest to fairness China could get was broadcast last week. People were jailed for seven and five years just for promoting a movement that is demanding to know that the top party bosses and the party elite are getting paid as salaries for their service to the country.
I do see an interconnector there between the Chinese way of doing things and Labour`s way of pronouncing “Not in the interest of the nation to know”.