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Not all Italians are white, not even all Italian MPs. Jean Léonard Touadi was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has lived and worked in Italy for much of his life. A cultivated man, he would prefer not to find himself called on every other day to comment on a rising tide of xenophobic political rhetoric – and, inevitably, on the racist attacks which have followed. But when 19-year-old Italian-born Abdul Salam Guibre was clubbed to death near Milan station last year, he was too alarmed to hold his tongue: "It's a climate reminiscent of Mississipi Burning," he said.…  Seguir leyendo »

Shocked? Indignant? Hard to tell, really. Most Italians simply don't know that Silvio Berlusconi has compared the plight of earthquake victims forced to sleep in tents in the wintry weather of the Abruzzo region to a camping holiday.

Television broadcasts tactfully ignored the slip. The good man, after all, was only trying to keep everyone's morale up. Virtually every newspaper in the country did the same. Only the readers of the very leftwing Il Manifesto were informed in a brief note: "Shock at 'camping weekend' comment. But only abroad." That's it, really. Past caring. If you can take the spectacle of your prime minister parading in front of TV cameras, massed officialdom and one miserable homeless old lady in an outsize fireman's helmet, you can take anything.…  Seguir leyendo »