We Italian should be concerned

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The reason why Italy has problems today, it is due to its geographical position. You see, the Italians have problems of their own to solve, but, because Italy is right in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, the illegal emigrant that come from North Africa to Europe, they come to Italy first. These are my concerns that I am trying to discuss. Because I see that in Italy, they are going to have problems, so, because I was born in Italy, I am concerned, and I want to say something about this issue.

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Anyhow, I believe that the Italian should be concerned, you see, I have become aware that there are lots of things to talk about, so, there will be more than just this article about the illegal emigrants to talk about, as we will explain while we write about them. The reason why I am writing this article, it is because there are a couple of things that have happened recently, and they have pushed me to write this article.

Now, I believe that in Italy today, they have many problems to cope with, one of which is the illegal migration from Africa and the Middle East. This illegal emigration touches me personally, because in the fifties and sixties, we Italians had to emigrate ourselves to other countries to find work, and one of these emigrants was myself, when I migrated to Australia.

But since then, a lot of things have changed in Italy, so, today the Italian people are better off; because they can help other people that move to Italy illegally, even if they cannot give them work, because even today there is not enough work for the Italians themselves. So, I believe that this illegal emigration can cause problems. Therefore, I wish that somebody comes up with a solution, how to stop or control the flow of refugees to an acceptable level. You see, I believe that this uncontrolled migration can create serious problems in the future, therefore, I feel concerned.

Anyhow, while I was looking on the Internet, for any signs that slows this unwanted emigration down, to my dismay, instead of finding how to stop the illegal emigrant coming in, in large numbers, I found in Hub Pages an article that was showing the benefit of migrating to Italy and Europe. I know that the writer was writing only his point of views, without thinking of the consequence this can cause.

Anyhow, this article that I am talking about, the writer is encouraging other people to migrate to Italy and Europe, which I believe is not a good thing to do, as I am going to explain the reasons. So, let us leave behind this difference of opinion between me and the Hub Pages writer; because I want to point out, what are the real problems over there, and then we will talk about the major issues, including this article that I found in Hub Pages.

Looking at these Italian issues from far way, since I happen to be in Australia the land of the Kangaroos’; because I am so far away, I imagine that I can see these important issues in a different way, and perhaps better than the people that live on the spot in Italy, because I am not directly affected by what is happening. So, let me write down my point of views, about the illegal emigrant and other things.

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Anyhow, I must say that I am proud of what the Italians are doing these days, since what they are doing is being done on humanitarian grounds. We know that helping other people in need, it is the best thing that we humans must do, so, we should encourage this sort of behaviour. But there is a big question mark here. Can this behaviour in the long run be detrimental to the helper themselves?

As we have said, in Italy we have a big problem with the illegal emigrants, because there are too many of them, we also believe that from what we see happening in the world, this emigration problem will continue for a long time. So, we Italian should be concerned, but not only we Italians should be concerned, because, I believe that the rest of the world should be concerned as well, about what is happening in Italy.

Anyhow, let us continue these points of views. My own personal point of views is that Italy today is under a strain, because of the illegal migrants which come to Italy every day, the last count that I have heard of, there were 156 thousand refugees this year alone, there were also over 4200 people that drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, so, the Italians and other countries as well, feel that they must help them and they do, because on humanitarian grounds that needs to be done, any other way is shocking, because lots of people will die by drowning, if they are not helped.

But, this is not all that needs to be done today, because this drowning issue, it is not the only problem for the Italian people have, because, for the last two months there have been several earthquakes in central Italy, which have damaged lots of towns, and there were near 300 victims from these earthquakes, in some of these towns there is hardly any building left standing. So, the Italian people must solve these two huge problems that keep going on, one after the other, with no end in sight.

Now, in this article, I wanted to talk about three main issues, the earthquake problems, the refugees and illegal emigrant, and last of all discuss about the article on Hub Pages that seems to encourage illegal emigrant to go to Italy, being used as the gateway to Europe. But it looks like that this article is becoming too long already. So, I may have to write two or three more articles to say what I want to say. But to conclude this article, let me talk about the earthquake and the Italian response.

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Today, if we Look at what is happening in Italy, we will see that there are too many things that the Italian authorities need to do at the same time, they have many other problems going on. Now, the Italian are not rich people, because Italy is a small country in size compared to other countries with the same population; Italy is also poor, because every now and then there are these earthquakes that destroy many towns, like what has happened now. Some people think that you can rebuild again, and the problem is over. But it is not so, you see, every time something is destroyed, the country becomes poor. In Italy, there are too many mountains, so, some of this territory is not easily cultivable, but the Italians are good at finding what they can grow on some small piece of land, if they live in the mountains. They are good at doing other things, since most of them are individual that try hard to solve their own problems. But even knowing that they can solve many problems, today they should be concerned, because there are several negative things all happening at the same time. Anyhow, now let us talk about what the Italians are doing because of the earthquakes.

When earthquake like these that are happening in Italy take place and there are hundreds of dead people, and tens of thousands have their houses destroyed and become refugees, usually other countries come to help, but this time there was no much help from outside Italy, and if there was any, it was not mentioned much in the news. So, it seems from here that the Italian people can cope with the earthquake problem so far by themselves.

The Italian government and authorities have been quick to get involved, so, they have promised to the people that they will rebuild the damaged houses and everything else that needs to be rebuilt, so, now it remains to be seen, if what the authorities have promised the people affected from the quake, is going to be delivered on time and to the standard that they have promised; we hope they do, for the benefit of everybody involved.

Now, I should say that next step is going to be a critical one, because while the government is giving money to re-build, the damaged house and everything else that needs to be rebuilt, there are greedy idiots, who don’t care about the plight of the rest of the community that need help, so, they want a share of the government money; here I am talking about the mafia and other criminal groups, I hope that they are caught in time from the Italian authorities before they do any damage. My own personal view about them is that they are a disgrace to the Italian people, who work hard to achieve a good outcome for everybody, they should be ashamed of themselves, instead of being proud to be robbers.

Anyhow, I believe that I have said enough about the earthquake for the time being, because I want to talk a bit about the refugees and illegal emigrants that come to Italy by thousands about every day, which is another problem for the Italian government and we should be concerned about that, as we are going to write in our next article, that we can call, Italian concerns continued.

See you soon.

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