LONDON – You are Italian, neapolitan or sicilian? The amazing question is part of a questionnaire that some schools in the Uk have sent to the families of new pupils for the school year started about a month ago. The initiative had, in theory, one purpose of non-discriminatory: to establish the ethnic origin of the children of immigrants to be able to provide both children and, where appropriate, the parents, the necessary linguistic assistance in the learning of English. But the result has been to make our fellow-countrymen as if they were "filed" on the basis of the regional origin. As if there were at least three types of citizen: the English-Italian, Italian-neapolitan and Italian-sicilian. Some Italian family has reported the incident to our embassy in London and the protest was immediate. "The Embassy of Italy in United Kingdom has intervened to require the modification of certain categorizations that regional referred to in Italy appeared on the online forms for the school enrolment in some districts in England and Wales," says a note from the press office of our embassy. "The codes that are presented for the selection of the ethnicity, used on the sites of some of the constituencies of the school, was in fact a choice between 'Italian', 'Italian – napoletano', and 'Italian-sicilian'. The Embassy has protested to the british authorities, requesting the immediate removal of such categorizations". In the verbal note of protest reminds us that "Italy from 17 march 1861 a united Country, and": a comment on the sign of understatement in English, that is, without the need to shout, on the part of our embassy, which in simple words would be a tug on the wrist to the ministry of Education british, don’t you know that Italy is more a geographical expression? A new fall style that follows a few days in the exclusion of researchers in the uk from a project on Brexit at the London School of Economics. With the difference that this time the Foreign Office the british did not hesitate to apologise to Italy “regrets the incident” and ensuring “an intervention so that they can be immediately removed these categorizations are not justified and not justifiable”. The Foreign Office, among other things, has informed that “will check for what reason, and in a few isolated school districts, have been introduced to these categorizations, and who, moreover, had no intention of discrimination, but simply aimed at ascertaining some of the additional difficulties of language for the children to enter the school system and English and welsh”. "it Is local initiatives" also confirms the ambassador Pasquale Terracciano, "motivated probably by the intention to identify a non-existent language needs particular and to ensure the hypothetical support. But good intentions paved the road to hell, especially when they are unintentionally discriminatory, in addition, that offensive to the south". Comments the undersecretary at the Italian ministry of Education, David Pharaoh: "Incredible that even today we are forced to face the prejudices of this type. The Italian school has gone beyond these stereotypes, and in Italy, as in the United Kingdom, you must work for the integration and education of future generations". It makes you wonder if behind this initiative there is some official british animated by the spirit of Brexit.
- Topics:
- school
- Great Britain
- questionnaire
- ethnic origin
- Italian
- neapolitan
- the sicilian
- English schools
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