Questions are continually raised about what it means to be European, French, Spanish, or Finnish
Jan 31, 2024 19:10:31 GMT 10
Post by account_disabled on Jan 31, 2024 19:10:31 GMT 10
There is no answer to such questions. No list has been drawn up, totally impossible, to characterize such identities. Being a feeling, it is something ineffable. However, some in this desperate search for identity resort to the fictional discourse of a peaceful and civilized Europe. Peaceful and civilized Europe? The answer today is in the Mediterranean, which is a true cemetery, as I mentioned before. And those who try to prevent it are persecuted by our European justice system. Patxi Lanceros in his book, The Robbery of the Future. Borders-Fears-Crisis tells us that the arrival of immigrants - grouped into groups by ethnicity, language, religion, customs - encourages the emergence of movements, not only political, that demand credentials of authenticity, based on traits that would constitute what own in the face of the invasion of others. There are many formations of this profile and some can be classified as fascist.
In Spain we have a clear example. VOX has made its xenophobia and racism towards immigrants one of the fundamental points to attract votes. This drift is very dangerous, and to confront it a great policy is needed, a real Phone Number Database policy, based not on the immediacy or short-termism of upcoming elections; nor in that obsessive question: what are we? A question that serves to inflame social and cultural relations, to draw lines of fracture and discrimination, with subsequent violence and criminalization. Because it is clear that when you aim at what is your own, you generally shoot at what is not yours. The answer to the identity question usually results in a set of disqualifications directed at the immigrant. Which fosters fears, easily transformed into hatred. Perverse situation that spreads with impunity on the European agenda, without its citizens caring much or little. The way in which the debate on immigration moves is frightening: a way in which economic and legal aspects predominate, almost exclusively, ignoring all others. Lately the issue of security has arisen.
The only important thing is the figures, the numbers. According to European policies, immigrants do not count, they are counted. They are counted in institutes, outpatient clinics, social services, statistics are made on their legal or illegal activity, the number of irregulars or the quota of refugees is discussed. Many, too many, excessive: it is the only language used when we talk about immigration. However, they do not count how many contribute as workers to Social Security or the South American or Romanian women who take care of our elderly. A La Caixa study from 2011 - when the percentage of immigrants already exceeded 10% - revealed that they contribute more than they receive. “The arguments of overuse and abuse of the social protection system by them are unjustified. They receive less from the State than they contribute to the public treasury.
In Spain we have a clear example. VOX has made its xenophobia and racism towards immigrants one of the fundamental points to attract votes. This drift is very dangerous, and to confront it a great policy is needed, a real Phone Number Database policy, based not on the immediacy or short-termism of upcoming elections; nor in that obsessive question: what are we? A question that serves to inflame social and cultural relations, to draw lines of fracture and discrimination, with subsequent violence and criminalization. Because it is clear that when you aim at what is your own, you generally shoot at what is not yours. The answer to the identity question usually results in a set of disqualifications directed at the immigrant. Which fosters fears, easily transformed into hatred. Perverse situation that spreads with impunity on the European agenda, without its citizens caring much or little. The way in which the debate on immigration moves is frightening: a way in which economic and legal aspects predominate, almost exclusively, ignoring all others. Lately the issue of security has arisen.
The only important thing is the figures, the numbers. According to European policies, immigrants do not count, they are counted. They are counted in institutes, outpatient clinics, social services, statistics are made on their legal or illegal activity, the number of irregulars or the quota of refugees is discussed. Many, too many, excessive: it is the only language used when we talk about immigration. However, they do not count how many contribute as workers to Social Security or the South American or Romanian women who take care of our elderly. A La Caixa study from 2011 - when the percentage of immigrants already exceeded 10% - revealed that they contribute more than they receive. “The arguments of overuse and abuse of the social protection system by them are unjustified. They receive less from the State than they contribute to the public treasury.
