Rome to Jerusalem

Gypsies, Mexicans, North Africans, Jews,

After having a few technically difficulties on blogspot I got everything figured out, and I’m able to post again. I was having a problem posting blogs before, but with the help of some friends, and me worrying about not getting the posts in on time I fixed the problem. This week’s blog question is very open and can have multiple answers, the questions goes a little something like this, “Gypsies, North Africans, Jews, and Mexicans.” At first I thought there had to be more to the question, until we were told to think about the question.

So my interpretation of the question is that, like America; Italy is experiencing the same problem with illegal immigrants as we are. They are experiencing North Africans coming to their country illegally, and taking jobs from the citizens. This is the same for America, and how Mexicans are taking jobs, and are doing them for less pay. It is funny how are cultures can seem so different, but yet we have all the same problems. Everyday we walk through Rome saying “man that is so weird...” or “that is really different from America.” Yet they have the same problems and same solutions as we do. So we really aren’t as different as we thought, you just have to not worry about the differences, and focus on the similarities.

We also have the same ideas on legal immigrants, and how we try to get them to fit in society. When an immigrant decides to move to America we have a process which allows them to understand the culture and laws. So we help them when they first start out in a new country; this is the same with Italy as well. The Catholic Church decides to help these legal immigrants by supplying them with basic necessities, until they get started. The only difference between America and Italy, is that America has foundations that help the new immigrants, and these are usually volunteer ran. So in actuality, we both are supporting immigrants, as long as the do it the legal way.

Immigration is a very big problem in both countries. We both are trying to stop the illegal immigrants from coming into our country; and we try and help the legal ones. It is a hard problem that both sides have not yet solved. We will continue to try and fix the problem, but until then we will have to deal with them one at a time.