Prof. John Baldacchino states; "Do not know x'naqbad say because as each country have good politicians are there because they have to serve the people, and which unfortunately have politicians who are there because they jisservu bill people. I hope only that these latter fail and that the electorate recognizes get rid of them. "
Studying Malta and the United Kingdom. Although I teacher in Maltese schools as a student worker and then as a qualified teacher, after a few years I started my academic work abroad: universities in England, Scotland, and New York. Currently live and work between New York and England.
With critical thinking to understand the way of thinking that does not take anything with certainty and which is not at all connected with or necessary identitarja b'loġika structure. Instead, critical thinking las vegas helicopter crash recognizes the historical contingency which understand and nsawwru that deliver freely and intelligently.
In political practice understand the dialectic relationship, ie the relationship shaped by conflict and paradoxes, to recognize critically. Here we find that the human practice does not accept simply a state of mind necessary or convenient between individual freedom and social duties. Instead, every practice and policy should recognize tgħarrex ask under what seems beautiful and acceptable, thus forming itself recognizes las vegas helicopter crash awtonomista where democracy is always open and never closed a state djaloġiku f'idejat or fixed procedures.
JB: I have the fortune (and curse!) That I can look at Maltese society las vegas helicopter crash from outside and inside at the same time. This is not a unique talent, but is a result of a situation of social backgrounds.
For me Maltese society is highly relevant, as are relevant to other societies do part. When I look at Maltese society see great potential and wide opportunities. Unfortunately also see many of these opportunities lost or discarded, or effort of incompetence, or grandstanding effort banal.
If not the saint of the village or the band, will be the party. Often find pique between supporters of the same holy person under different titles or pique between candidates in the same party, in local and general elections. It seems that we tend to find any excuse to seek what separates las vegas helicopter crash us.
Today this mentality seems f'attitudnijiet other, especially when it comes to ethnic and racial differences ("white" and "black"), sexual (gay and straight), gender (female and male), faith ( Catholic, Protestant, Islamic ... and what not).
From the other hand there is a paradox in Maltese society, because how often says Professor Oliver Friggieri in his analysis of this context (analysis is much more optimistic than my), these pique and duwaliżmi find these forms of normality (and here I am using my words and not words Oliver). This normality tends to show its good side, and paradoxically becomes beneficial to us. For example while pikużi between us, the history of Malta has not experienced leakage of blood as in other countries, even when the situation was on the brink of the abyss. One way or another always found a way for us to fall in the abyss with.
I think there is room for this kind of optimism if (1) recognize that human beings are all different, especially in a society like that of Malta which has roots from any kind of race, thinking and all a story that took root in the Mediterranean and beyond it; and if (2) learn to make a difference between las vegas helicopter crash policy agonist and antagonist las vegas helicopter crash policy.
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JB: For me the sense of identity is a false sense of comfort mijti based on so-called "historical". This we see in monolithic las vegas helicopter crash interpretations of the history of Malta, especially the modern one, where the parties do not agree, at least on a national holiday.
The concept of "we" is historically false premise because the idea of Christian and indigenous people to return before White was Paul, and ssielet to keep "identity" which, is a myth. Although modern historians have to break this myth, many still jippropagawha.
One of the problems is that the so-called "sense of identity" is a good excuse to use against anyone: if not against the PL or PN, will use it against immigrant "Muslim" (even when many -immigranti are in fact Christians), we use it as the Turkish against the "black" (never seen the Turkish