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A post I made at AveMelita.com:
@argo and everyone else - My honest and frank reflections on the language issue in relation to Italian I can only agree with argo regarding the fact that language is not a political question, but it is a cultural one. Subsequently I assert con forza that we should not be sterile politicians without a cultural background. Nationalism is not mere Politics, Nationalism engulfs every aspect of National life. When will we accept our Italian heritage and actually do something to cultivate it? When will we untie the yoke on our Italian heritage imposed by an adverse history? This is slavery and nothing else. We were part and parcel of the developments in Italy for practically all our history except British Colonialism. Before we had an Italian culture, now we have an Anglo-Americana dump which is even getting Africanised. I assert vigorously that our Cultural Crisis is because the Maltese have been sradikati, from their past and their Italian heritage in cultural terms. We do not know what is our European Maltese Culture, we defend an Anglo-American culture against its impending Africanisation. Well and good, but that is not Nationalism, that is dealing out a reaction to a terrible phenomenon, but what happens when that phenomenon is won? Nationalism is not simply a reaction, it is assertiveness, especially in Cultural terms. Given the vast preponderence of Italian surnames in Malta, which upon observing a Telephone Directory are actually the majority as single surnames, as Maltese as anything else, I doubt whether there is any Maltese that can claim absolutely no Italian heritage in his family. I have it, and I assure you that I am no exception in Malta. In my family there was never any talks of Italian heritage, we are as Maltese as anyone else, but it is part of us and my inquisitive nature regarding tutto e tutti led me to understand, that having Italian heritage is actually part and parcel of being Maltese. There is actually no Malta without its very real Italian heritage - A Cultural rebirth in Malta goes hand in hand with rediscovering that heritage, as well. It is an Ethno-Cultural question, and yes, Italian should be compulsory teaching at schools, it is not restricting anyone and that notion is ridiculous. It is actually opening people to part of Malta's heritage which the English tried to destroy and were part successful given the close-mindedness of many in accepting the truth, same English that some arduous bacia culi admire unneedly and often in said admiration combine a hate for anything Italian even if it is part and parcel of Malta. The preponderence of Italian in international areas is irrelevant to a Nationalist. With such reasoning we might as well prefer Chinese and Arabic to Italian, and to hell goes our heritage. This is neglecting our National characteristics and the distortions that the English have done on the Maltese nation. Malta has no real second language if it is English, that is an imposition and a slavery that most accept complacently. Such people, accepting the status quo, are none other but slaves to Colonialism and an adverse History. Their look to the future is an acceptance of cultural slavery! I will once again quote the past, which some would want to neglect and subsequently call themselves Patriots and even Nationalists. I would rather be true to myself, my ideals, and Malta's heritage and state positions from the past which were truly Nationalist rather than invent some half-baked "Nationalism" based on an Anti-Immigration position and with no cultural characteristics. The very sound position of the Partito Nazionalista taken during its very true and vital Nationalist period is my own: "It is common knowledge that, in order to combat the denationalizing policy of the Imperial Government which would have us dealt with as if we were of Arabic or Levantine descent and would therefore do away with all the characteristics of our glorious Latin civilization, the Nationalist Party must necessarily defend also our Italian culture, now hundreds of years old; nevertheless, the Party does not intend nor does it mean in any way to prejudice the English language the need whereof it has always acknowledged, and much less does it want to prejudice Maltese which is on the people's lips thereby being one of our characteristics which we must uphold and cultivate within the sphere of our national European individuality in the hope that, we will ultimately succeed, even if gradually, in finding a just and final solution to the language issue" Well ladies and gentlemen, the status quo in languages in Malta is "no just and final solution to the language issue". If you are truly Nationalists, as I am sure to be, do stand up for your own Culture and Heritage and don't be complacent to an adverse history. There is no real Maltese Nationalism without accepting our very real and vital Italian heritage as Maltese, if not Ethnic Heritage as well. The supposed "Nationalistic" alternative is based on an Anti-Immigration position with no real cultural background. This is the truth in Nationalism, there is no escaping it. Mi dichiaro Nazionalista al 100%. La nostra vera seconda lingua nazionale è l'italiano, purtroppo gli ignoranti vogliono rimanere nell'ignoranza, oqgħod hemm Ġaħan! (I love saying that, Buon Natale ) Look at us, we use English to communicate amongst fellow Maltese, if this is not a nation slave to an imposed history, no one is.
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