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...supporting actress - and instead competed against herself for best actress - we'll never know. And France's I've Loved You So Long (starring British actress Kristin Scott Thomas, who speaks fluent French) raised a few eyebrows when it beat odds on Oscar favorite Waltz With Bashir and Italian Mafia flick Gomorrah to the foreign language film award. (See pictures of some of the greatest ever animated movies...
...From Southern Europe and South Africa to Middle America and the heartland of China come a growing number of examples of both governments and individuals venting their frustrations on foreigners. Take Italy. "We have to be nasty with illegal immigrants," Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni declared this week. Italy's unemployment rate is expected to rise to 8.2% in 2009, up from 6.7% last year. The country, which boasts a 4,500 km-long coastline, is also on the front line of African immigration into Europe. Some 36,000 immigrants arrived on Italian shores in 2008, up from...
...Midway between Sicily and North Africa, the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa has long been a prime landing spot for illegal immigrants. Last month, protests erupted over plans to build a second detention center on the island, as locals fear that an already damaged beach tourism industry will be further hit. (Read a TIME story about Europe's immigration problem...
...racism, but it's also reasonable to assume that the economic downturn is causing greater competition for jobs and rising frustration among locals. British workers have protested the use of foreign workers. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa has asked Microsoft to fire foreign workers first when layoffs arrive. The Italian Senate approved a bill Thursday that encourages doctors to turn in illegal immigrants who they've treated. Put simply, bad times fuel xenophobia. "History is full of cases of scapegoating triggered by economic crisis," says Francesco Billari, a professor of demography at Milan's Bocconi University. "Immigrants make an easy...
...1970s when Latter Day Saint clerics announced that miraculously the Mormon church was no longer just for white people. I soon found that the most common defense of character in Utah is, “I’m not Mormon.” The driver was Italian, he said...