These immigrants have such a STRANGE culture. Send them back to Malta.
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August 23, 2013 at 10:46am
George the Maltese ‘carpet man’ made the news a while back in the American press. Now it’s been picked up by the Daily Mail. And of course, they had to mention that he’s Maltese. Because it’s, you know, relevant.
Well, that gives us Maltese a bit of our own ‘Romanian handbag thief caught’ and ‘Arab rapist jailed’.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2398925/The-man-rolls-carpet-hides-public-satisfy-bizarre-fetish.html
You’re making a point, I can see that, but there really is a difference between a bizarre fetish (entirely consensual, if quite sad) and committing crimes.
I don’t feel personally involved in this at all and don’t see why you would – it’s some random man who, for reasons best left unexplored, apparently gets his kicks wrapped up in a carpet. Says little to nothing about Malta or Maltese culture, and a fair bit about the guy’s sexual choices (maybe his childhood too).
Now, that thieving scandal in Italy really was shameful. I’m not a thief, have no real relationship with those people and I deplore their actions, but it was pretty embarrassing to know they’d made such complete fools of themselves as “Maltese” holidaymakers.
[Daphne – Wearing African batiks is not a crime, but apparently it’s grounds for social rejection on the grounds of cultural differences.]
The gist of somethingwicked’s comment is that your point, though valid, could have done with a better – read relevant – illustration. The crime s/he alludes to is the “gang of Maltese thieves” rounded up somewhere in the north of Italy.
African batiks indeed.
While I am entirely with you on the way Africans are being treated in this country, but the analogy portrayed has me lost completely. The chap has a fetish (don’t we all?), and he is playing it out for a profit. Good thinking.
What worries me is the publicity we get when real wrongdoers are in the news, such as the Maltese tourists in Italy. Take a look at the report L’Arena.it – Il Giornale di Verona:
http://www.larena.it/stories/Home/551695_furti_i_carabinieriarrestano_11_persone/?refresh_ce&scroll=2320
Notice how a comment on the same page describes us as a nation:
“i maltesi, quella brava gente che manco soccorre gli immigrati alla deriva in mare…”
Getting wrapped up in a carpet and being trodden on by young women in short skirts is really a just bit of harmless fun.
The issue is not about a fetish but the fact that his nationality is specified by name. We have to put everything into perspective: Malta and the Maltese have, for the past months or so, negatively featured in the international press.
First it was the Dalligate-Bahamas affair, then the reaction to Malta’s push-back threat and the general racist reaction to Ms Malmstrom and the EU. This should be immediately obvious to anyone who has a wider perspective, as against the insular attitude, on the popular media abroad.
Fetish or not (or petty crime if you want), takes on greater significance by the fact that, in the present climate of international affairs, Malta and its people have become synonymous with some bad and negative publicity.
Embarrassing news involving Maltese citizens seems to be published on a regular basis lately, or is it just my impression?
[Daphne – No, we just notice it immediately because we’re Maltese.]
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Well at last he cannot be unjustly accused of being a walk over. Carpet diem Chali.
A Maltese take on the standard (well …) trampling fetish: Idhol fit-tapit, Guz, biex la jaghrfuk u lanqas tithammeg.
Ghogobni l-kumment tiegħek. Qatt ma rajtha hekk, imma kif għidt int, ladarba titkebbeb fit-tapit la jagħfuk u lanqas titħammeġ!
A distant relative of Cleopatra’s maybe? (not that she enjoyed being trampled upon – but roll up in a carpet she did)
It is standard practice to mention the nationality of someone in a news story so let’s not get over-sensitive about this.
Is it relevant? Well, it’s part of the story, the same as someone’s age, gender etc. If this was in the context of a crime you can see how a media outlet might be trying to link crime to immigration but it is clearly not the case here.
Any suggestion of “send this immigrant back to his country” is entirely in the heads of paranoid readers and not in this actual news article.
Anyway, if this was about, let’s say a Somali immigrant in Malta, do you think the Maltese media just might mention his nationality? We’re not exactly that politically correct ourselves, are we?