Saturday, June 18, 2016

The emigrant problem

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This photo here, is one of the many photos that come from the internet. This photo happens to be taken in Italy, but there are other European countries that have the same problem, in fact, it could be said that it is a worldwide problem. So, the entire world needs to find a way how to solve it.

The emigrant problem
As we have said in our last post, Italy modern history. Today Italy and most of the Italian people are trying hard to cope with the illegal emigrants, that come in from Africa and the Middle East, and that might become a problem in the future, so in this post, let us see what these problems could be.
People that emigrate are usually poor people that happen to live in a poor country (nation), the reason that their native towns and their countries are poor have many reasons, but above all the poverty is lack of good management of the resources that they might have, but that is not the only reason; because sometimes this poverty may also be due to changes that are unavoidable; if that is the case, then those people that emigrate have the right to emigrate.
Now, in general terms we believe that, if a region of the world has been able to provide for a good living to a certain number of people for a very long time, then the same region should be able to provide that same amount of people indefinitely, if that region has a good government and management and the people that live there try to do their best and use their resources wisely. But that is not always the case, because people become careless and for that reason poor. 
Therefore, our views are that those people that become illegal emigrant are not the best people that are able to plan ahead for themselves, in such a way that they could support themselves, so they slowly find themselves that they are becoming poor. Because they are becoming poor they start looking around and see that some of the other people, that are living in other countries are better off than they are and they wish to be like them.
Here I would like to point out that, they do not ask themselves why the other people have been able to have a better standard of living than themselves, they only see that they have it, and would like to have that higher standard of living for themselves. In fact, that is the only thing that they see, they don’t even ask themselves why that has happened. So, they believe that the world owes them that same standard of living, just because they are living in this world. So, when people emigrate in great number most of them emigrate, because where they are living, it has become so poor and they are not able to look after themselves properly.
Now, we believe that the main problem that these emigrants have is going to stay with them with the rest of their lives. We have to admit here that some of them are going to be able to look after themselves, and become good citizen of the country that they have emigrated to, if they are offered a good chance. But when they emigrate in bulk like they do these days, wherever they go they are going to bring their own problem with them, so the countries that are forced to accept them should be very careful that they do not end up like the emigrant themselves, and therefore one day their own people are going to become poor and emigrate, because they have become poor just like the emigrant that they were supposed to help; I hope that I have explained myself clear enough.
Now let us try to understand, what their problem might have been in the country of origin, and some of the reasons why they have fallen behind the rest of the world; because if we could understand that, then we would be able to avoid the same mistake.
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What could be the reasons?
First of all, when we look at the illegal emigrant in Italy we see that today most of them are African emigrants, this makes us think that perhaps it is the changes of temperature that has impoverished these countries to the point that people have to go to live somewhere else. Therefore, first of all, it has been humanity themselves that have brought about this problem, so, if that is the case than we have to be reasonable and we have to help those people that emigrate the best way we can, after all it was us the rest of the world that has caused this global warming. This would be one of the reasons, but is it possible that there are several reasons why these people emigrate, so, let us imagine what else could it be.
The second in line is the political scene; people belong to one party or another, they struggle for power, the struggle becomes so great that they end up in violence and wars, so there are refugees that run away from their own country, who is to blame here would be hard to say because both sides blame each other; but the rest of the world end up that has to help those refugees on humanitarian grounds.
Why these wars are started is really unbelievable; they all seem to have a chain reaction and from a small argument they become enlarged, until they become real wars on a large scale that may last for years to come; as we know these days there is this war still going on in Iraq, and worse still most of the Middle East have wars going on, the outcome of these wars is that people are displaced and become refugees.
The wars’ refugees emigrate to other countries the best way they can. The countries that receive these refugees have to accept them on humanitarian ground, it would be cruel if they don’t. So, the rest of the world are willing to help these refugees, and they do it willingly. But, this willingness to help them may result one day in serious problems, as we have already seen from the many violent acts that these people are capable to inflict.
We will talk about this in our next post, because this post is becoming too long.

See you soon. 
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Italy modern history

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Today emigration is a problem for the entire world, and Italy is one of the countries that is having a lot of illegal emigrants.





More about Italy modern history

Dear readers, this post is the continuation of our previous post, Italy and the modern migration; where we were talking about the history of this southern part of Italy and the many times this part of Italy has seen wars.  

Now, not everything that we are going to talk about in this post belongs strictly to this region of southern Italy, no, dear readers what we are going to talk about here is a worldwide problem, but above all I would like to tell my own country people what I see coming, in the hope that they would be able to see the other side of the story, you see from down under here in Australia we might be able to see things that are not very obvious to those that live in southern Italy, and also those people that by their actions cause history to be written, after all these people are forced by circumstances to run away from their native countries, but the question here remains; could this running away be prevented by doing other things one needs to ask?

The idea of writing this article, is that we were writing about the past history of this regions of southern Italy, because I come from this region, and therefore there are lots of times that I go back to talk about it, but today we are going to talk about what the future could hold for this region, because there are some historic things happening presently. 

I believe that there is a link between the past the present and the future, so, let me explain the link that already exists here; as you all know I have been writing my life story in Hub Pages and also some of the history of my native town of Genzano di Lucania; and then, recently we have written about the history of the castle of Monteserico, so we have looked at some of the good things but also the bad things that have happened around this castle and also about Genzano town. Now having seen what has happened in the past, our minds looks at the present times and tries to forecast the future, we know that our human history keeps going on indefinitely, so, we wonder what the future holds for us; here I have to say that there are a few negative signs for the future of this region, which we will be trying to explain as we keep on writing this article.

Anyhow, at this very moment, I am asking myself whether this is the right thing to say; because people say that it would be better not to say anything, unless you can say nice things to the public, but what about saying things that might help prevent some catastrophic event in the future, because we see this danger that could be coming, but people of this region do not seem to see it and they completely ignore it. I know that by saying this I might be called many nasty names for starting this unpleasant conversation, but so what, I believe that I would not do the duty of a good citizen if I don’t speak out.

So, what are you going to talk about you would ask and why it seems to you that you have to speak out and for what reason?

To understand what I am going to say next, it is necessary to know a bit more about this region of Southern Italy and the inhabitant that have lived and are living there. You see this region is not rich, the only thing that it is going on there is farming; there are a lot of small farms that would be able to sustain the native inhabitant only. We have also to say that there are times when these small farms do not produce enough and people leave the farms and go to work somewhere else, if and when they are able to find another job. You see this is the main reason why I left our small family farm in southern Italy and migrated to Australia.

We know that a few things might have changed since I left Italy, but if they have changed it is not a great deal, as there are no industries of any sort beside farming, so the way of life over there is very much the same as it was in the fifties or there about. What I want to point out here with this article is that this region of southern Italy could not support any outside people that would like to come here and that is the worry that comes to my mind, so let me explain what I mean, because I think that this is a real problem for this region of Italy. But as we have said already this would also apply to several other regions in the world, so whatever warnings that this article may suggest they are also warnings for the rest of the word and above all the western world.

I know that we in the western world, in the last fifty years or so, we have been able to improve a lot the standard of living; but at the same time, one has to ask; will we be able to help those people that are migrating to the west without upsetting our improved standard of living? You see, this is the main problem in the world today, and this is also the Italian problem. So, let us talk over once more about this problem.   

If you have paid attention to the news, you must have noted that there are many illegal migrants in the world today; they are illegal migrant because they forcefully go everywhere even when they are not wanted at all; here I am afraid that I have to say that when they do this forceful migrating they could easily upset the way of life of the people that are forced to receive them against their will; but let us see what could be the causes of this migration, and then extend our search to what could be the outcome of this forceful emigrants that come in unwanted, because I am worried that something might happen in southern Italy soon.

The causes of migrating in search of a better life are many, but above all it is poverty, sometimes poverty is so bad that people could even starve to death, now that is really when people are very poor and they are forced to find a way how they would be able to feed themselves; here the rest of the world that are better off should really try to help them and there is no question about it.

But on the other hand there are people that are not that poor and they want more because they are greedy, they may start to believe that the rest of the world is better off than they are and therefore they want to grab whatever the others have, and this seems to be the main problem that the entire world is facing today; it is a real problem because these people are not really starving.  

Anyhow, here in this post we want to talk about the Italian problem, mainly because I am an Italian that has emigrated from southern Italy, a long time ago, and therefore, in this article I would like to talk about Italy and my native town and the surrounding towns and countryside. So we would like to start thinking and imagining what could be like in the future to live in southern Italy, in these towns with all these new migrant coming in.

It seems to me that this post is becoming too long, for today average readers, since they seem to have no time and want to read only short articles. So we will continue to write about this issue, in our next post, the emigrant problem. See you soon. 
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Migration and Italy modern history

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This could be an old photo and some old happenings, but emigrant are still coming today in thousands; and therefore, we wonder if some unwanted happening is going to happen in the near future. It seems to me that all this movement of new migrant, it may create a real problem in the future.
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Migration and Italy modern history

Today world happenings, could be history making

An old man view of the world. I am an old man now and when I look at the world and see what is happening, I think that the world is going mad these days; I feel that the human race that was supposed to know how to behave these days, because we are supposed to have reached the age of reason does not know what to do in these hard times; so, what is wrong with humanity I would like to ask anyone that knows this answer?

Looking at the news on TV or reading the news on the Internet is almost impossible to avoid the terrorist news that is happening just about every day. I know that the news that we hear are just news and most time the bad news are more important than the good news to tell the people, they are important because they have happened and the public needs to know, but really we are becoming tired of all these bad news, because they are so ugly that one wants to switch off the TV and turn off the computer.

So, my dear readers, I wish that I could have been writing happy news, because that is what most of us would like to hear; instead I am stuck with this bad news that seem to surround us around. I have to say here that I feel within myself that my heart is crying my dear readers; My heart is crying because there are so many wrong things going on in the world today, so forgive me if I try to write what I see is wrong and still going on, because I would like to say what I feel into my heart, while I am writing this article. You see by writing this article I might feel at least that I have tried to warn the people what I see could happen next, I would like to say a few things here, because there are very few people that say anything positive, or at least suggest anything positive about what is happening in the world today, so some discussions could become helpful to say the least, who knows somebody might come up with a solution, so let me write my painful article the best way I can, even if this article may not appeal to a large section of our readers, because these days readers like to read easy stuff and not this sort of article that is going to make them think about the world and what is happening.

As you will see from the following paragraph, this article is about the world present history that is just happening these days, so even though I have named this hub, an old man view of the world, this old man needs to attach this story to a particular region of the world, in order to make his story real. Now as it happens I have written a few hubs about my native town of Genzano di Lucania and also about the second castle of this town called, the castle of Monteserico, which has a real history of its own, sense this castle was the castle of the Normans and Robert Guiscard duke of Southern Italy in the year 1047 or there about, it was also the castle of another famous person Fredrick 2nd that owned this castle around the 12th  century in Southern Italy.

We have to say here that the events and wars in those past times were very violent, so there have been some violent happenings around this castle. Today again history is taking its course and something might happen again around these regions of Southern Italy, because there are so many illegal emigrant coming in, and the view of this old man that is writing this article is that: they seem to occupy the whole country and we Italians are letting them in and welcoming them with open arms, but I don’t see that this is going to last long, because most regions of Italy are not rich and will not be able to sustain all these emigrants, so if this event and what we are witnessing today does not stop soon, we believe that soon there could be another violent story that could soon unfold in the future, in Italy and even in this parts of Italy, so, we just wonder, if history is going to repeat again.

We hope that what we believe could happen will never happen, but just sometimes we old people seem to worry too much. Anyhow, we seem to have said enough in this post, so see you in our next post, more about Italy modern history.


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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Old man view of the world

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Today there are too many illegal emigrants arriving in Southern Italy, it seems as if they are going to take over the entire country, if they continue to arrive in large numbers, as they are doing now. So for an Italian that has emigrated away from Italy for financial reasons is not easy to understand, so, I am worried that something sinister might happen over there; so I am writing my personal views about this issue.
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An old man view of the world
Today world happenings
Dear readers, in our last post called, more history about Monteserico castle, we have been writing about some old history events that have happened in Southern Italy a very long time ago; most of those events were about wars and other dreadful happenings; now from what I have written there, it makes me feel as if history could repeat itself even today.
You see, I am an old man now and when I look at the world and see what is happening, I think that the world is going mad these days, just as mad and violent as it was in the past. I feel that the human race that was supposed to know how to behave these days, because we are supposed to have reached the age of reason does not know what to do in these hard times; so, what is wrong with humanity I would like to ask? Are we progressing towards a better life or are we just as bad as we were in the past?
Looking at the news on TV or reading the news on the Internet is almost impossible to avoid the terrorist news that is happening just about every day. I know that the news are news and most time the bad news are more important than the good news to tell the people, they are important because they have happened and the public needs to know that, but really we are becoming tired of all these bad news, because they are so ugly that one wants to switch off the TV and turn off the computer.
So, my dear readers, I wish that I could have been writing happy news, because that is what most of us would like to hear; instead I am stuck with these bad news that seem to surround us around. I have to say here that I feel within myself that my heart is crying my dear readers; My heart is crying because there are so many wrong things going on in the world today, so forgive me if I try to write what I see is wrong in the world and it is still going on, because I would like to say what I feel into my heart, while I am writing this article. You see by writing this article I might feel at least that I have tried to warn the people what I see could happen next, I would like to say a few things here, because there are very few people that say anything positive, or at least suggest anything positive about what is happening in the world today, so some discussions could become helpful to say the least, who knows somebody might come up with a solution, so let me write my painful article the best way I can, even if this article may not appeal to a large section of our readers, because these days readers like to read easy stuff and not this sort of article that is going to make them think about the world and what is happening.
As you will see from the following paragraph, this article is about the world present history that is just happening these days, so even though I have named this hub, an old man view of the world, this old man needs to attach this story to a particular region of the world, in order to make his story real. Now as it happens I have written a few articles about my native town of Genzano di Lucania and also about the second castle of this town called, the castle of Monteserico, which has a real history of its own, sense this castle was the castle of the Normans and Robert Guiscard duke of Southern Italy in the year 1047 or there about, it was also the castle of another famous person Fredrick ll that owned this castle around 12 centuries in Southern Italy.
We have to say here that the events and wars in those past times were very violent, so there have been some violent happenings around this castle. Today again history is taking its course and something might happen again around these regions of Southern Italy, because there are so many illegal emigrant coming in, and the view of this old man that is writing this article is that: they seem to occupy the whole country and we Italians are letting them in and welcoming them with open arms, but I don’t see that this is going to last long, because most regions of Italy are not rich and will not be able to sustain all these emigrants, so if this event that we are witnessing now, is going to continue for a long time, there will be another violent story that could soon unfold in the future, we just wonder, if history is going to repeat itself again. Because there are sign that that could happen in the future; of course we hope it doesn’t, but there is a possible risk that it could happen.
Dear readers, here I would have liked to talk about what is happening just now, in these southern parts of Italy; I was thinking that I could write everything in one post about what is happening, but this post is becoming too long, so we will write more posts about this issue and then we will go back to our normal life story. So, see you soon in our next post Italy modern history.  


Thursday, February 4, 2016

More history about Monteserico

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This is the castle of Monteserico today, during its history this castle was once a Norman castle, famous owners and rulers; Robert the Guiscard duke of Southern Italy, then came Frederic II and many others. We need to say that around this castle there have been many wars, there is even a large hill called, Serra della battaglia (the hill of the battle)
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One of the most recent and famous people that has owned and lived for a short while in this castle was Lydia Borelli; she lived in this castle for a while, perhaps she wanted some quiet place to live after her very successful carrier as an actress. Here under I am posting a link where you can read lots about her life.



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Imagining old history of Monteserico
Now, let us just imagine how this small castle might have been built in the first place, today nobody seems to know who, when or the real reason this castle has been built, but from what we have found we have formed some possible ideas of its history, so let us say how we see this castle story.
In the beginning there must have been people of this region living in the caves where today stands the castle, they could have been local shepherd or perhaps other outside people, anyhow everything has to have a beginning, some of these people could have originated from Greece or somewhere else, they came up the valley of the river Bradano and settled here in Monteserico and also in the town of Genzano, since in Genzano even today there is this chasm called the Greek chasm, of course this is very early in history.
Then came the Roman Era with their conquest of southern Italy and then most of the known world, so, the Romans ruled over this part of Italy for a very long time; during that time some of the Roman leader may have started a holiday villa or just a building to live in and rule over the countryside, that is what the Roman did best, they usually would build something wherever they went so that they would be able to run that part of their conquest easily and at the same time bring civilization to the people in that region. So we believe that since the Roman times there has been a building there that some Roman landlord used and looked after, it might also have grown and modified many times.
When the Western Roman Empire collapsed around in 475-76 AD, when the German Odovacer deposited Romulus Augustulus, and in affect became king of Rome.
After the fall of the Roman Empire there wasn’t any real peace in Italy, so people had to try to protect themselves the best way they could, this in affect made people build castles, so this villa or whatever was built in Monteserico started to take the form of a small castle.
The first time that a sort of a castle or fort is mentioned is in the 800 AD. You see there were many wars so Monteserico castle and other castles in this part of the region became fortified forming a line of defence against the enemy; please note that this is before the Norman came to southern Italy, so when Robert Guiscard came to this part of Italy the castle was already there, as we can see from some important battles that happened in those times. 

Some known Monteserico history
Let us mention the owner that we know or we think we know that have owned the castle of Monteserico, So, let us start with famous owners like Robert Guiscard duke of southern Italy in 1047 of Apulia and Calabria and later on the Two Sicilies etc.  Born 1016 died 1085
Another famous one is Fredrick II that owned this castle, after Frederick II, 1194-1250, of course it is not easy here to follow a chain of event, but we know that these castles and other holdings always changed hand, it is said in history that there was a Roberto D’Angio who had married a Sancia he donated the castle to a family member del Bosco who saw husband of Aquilina Sancia, and when he died Aquilina Sancia became owner of Monteserico.
From Aquilina Sancia it was inherited from her daughter Giacoma Rachele who married Roberto San Severino the count of Carignano and Terlizzi, and then it was passed to the family Dentice delle Stelle under the queen Giovanna and the to the Ruffo.
During this time Monteserico had also a small town or suburb, but around 1400-1430 it slowly vanished, there was not an explanation why this happened but it happened.                   
After Aquilina Sancia there were the Sanseverino who had the castle. After that in 1603 was a Genoese Grimaldi, in 1613 was the Doria, at the end of 1700 was some descendents of the Sancia family and after that was abandoned.
It was bought from the Baron Dell’Agli-Certi the 30-01-1857, and then it was sold to the Cafieri the 30-03-1875 but by then it was too run down to live in.
After world war 1 the tenant Gardini bought a portion of the land from the Cafieri and the castel of Monteserico, it was used for holiday or resting place from this actress: Lyda Borelli (22 March 1884 – 2 June 1959) was an Italian actress ofcinema and theatre. She was born in Genoa, and died in Rome. Her career in theatre started when she was a child, acting on stage with Paola Pezzaglia in the French drama I due derelitti.
There might be other things to add but I don’t know what else to say at the moment, except that this military castle of Monteserico is a small fortress that has got many unknown stories, some of them are love stories and some of them are war stories; whether we will be able to tell these stories one day we do not know.
Anyhow, we hope that we have told you this story of Monteserico castle for everybody to read, but it has also been especially written for those people that come from Genzano, so that they can remember their native town and our Monteserico castle.
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Dear readers, we have written several hubs about the town of Genzano di Lucania, we have written some history also of this town and the castle of Monteserico, of course there are several other things that could be said about the past, but today we have to start to look at the future, because there are things happening in southern Italy, so we are going to look at the modern history making around these places, you see I like to forecast what could happen around these places, just looking at what is happening just now. So let us look at what could happen in out next post about Italy modern history. I hope that I will be able to write just one long post and then we will go back to tell you our own personal story. So see you in our next post, Italy modern history.