Uno degli effetti della forte stratificazione della società inglese, della separazione tuttora esistente – sebbene più a livello culturale che pratico – fra le classi sociali é la nascita di parole e modi di dire che sono difficili da tradurre in lingue di Paesi che non siano altrettanto fortemente stratificati (sospetto di aver appena bestemmiato contro il Beato Chomsky; i credenti possono risparmiarsi correzioni, la mia ignoranza é talmente abissale che probabilmente non le capirei).
Un esempio é la frase “the little people”. The little people sono “piccoli” nel senso che non hanno alcuna importanza, rilevanza sociale, peso economico: talmente inferiori a me da appartenere quasi ad un’altra specie. In italiano tendiamo a rendere l’espressione con “popolino”, ma non é una traduzione precisa: “popolino” ha sempre una connotazione critica, implica l’ignoranza o la scarsa educazione dei suoi appartenenti, mentre the little people are so unimportant that it makes no difference whether they are educated or uneducated, well-educated or peasants. They have no importance for birthright.
Today of course the phrase is used, at least explicitly, only in an ironic sense, but the behavior of a lot of people, not just here, suggests that the concept is part of the mindset of many.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a renowned journalist of the Independent and the Guardian, married to a financier in the City now superdirigente the FSA (Consob English), columnist and widely followed Tranz leading British intellectual of the establishment ; musulmana, si definisce fautrice della democrazia laica – lodevole, anche se il suo concetto di democrazia é appunto quello tranzi/multiculturalista forte. Qualche settimana fa la signora Alibhai-Brown parlava alla radio di questo e di quello, e ad un certo punto é tornata alla carica su un tema a lei molto caro – sostenendo che gli occidentali, e soprattutto i politici occidentali, non dovrebbero mai interferire o anche solo denunciare apparenti violazioni dei diritti umani in società diverse dalla loro, neanche quando si tratta di lapidazioni o impiccagioni di donne in Iran o Pakistan per “reati” che per noi non sono affatto tali. Ha ripetuto, davanti alla domanda del conduttore, che no, i politici occidentali dovrebbero refrain from saying anything when a Muslim woman is stoned to death (*)
A municipal council of any village in the south of England (if I remember correctly) that he was listening to the broadcast, wrote about Twitter "Could someone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown stone please? I promise not to tell. "
1) Ms Alibhai-Brown, read this message, he laughed and shook his head, he realized the irony of the situation and decided that maybe, after all, had said a little 'fucked .
2) Mrs Alibhai-Brown, the daughter informed of this criminal, outrageous statement fallocratico a male who wanted to silence the independent voice of a woman, went to the police, reported, and the city council and was suspended from the party (Conservative), who was arrested, released on bail, and is currently on probation, awaiting trial. Mrs Alibhai-Brown has also strongly denounced the climate of hate against her as a woman, Muslim and feminist and the guilty silence of the political class on these unspeakable acts of intimidation.
A pint at guessing which of the two versions is the real one.
Vabbé, troppo facile. La signora Alibhai-Brown, io temo, é in perfetta buona fede nel reagire a questa maniera: perché quando si parla di lapidazione, impiccagione o frustrate in piazza per le vittime di violenza sessuale (o anche solo per aver indossato i pantaloni sotto al burqa, come in Sudan) non si parla di lei o delle sue amiche che vanno con lei all’inaugurazione delle gallerie d’arte a Chelsea: si parla di little people , di donne che non sono esseri umani completi come lei, di oggetti che esistono per fare da argomento dei suoi articoli, o attraverso le cui vicende la giustezza delle opinioni espresse nei suoi articoli viene dimostrata. Questo concetto é radicato così deeply into his psyche that his anger, his scandal at the idea, as ironic, that its August and intellectual person is treated the same way as non-persons in Iran and Pakistan, is perfectly genuine and sincere. The shocked reaction, I suspect, was not so much by the suggestion that was not serious stoned, but rather by the treason of his being united to little people.
Or take another example, let's Diane Abbott - long-time Labour MP and anti-blairiana mirrored faith, anti-racist activist, recently a candidate from the left wing of the party to the Secretary of Labour Party. Mrs. Abbott preaches closing state grammar school, has recently approved the proposal to close / penalize schools that offer the European Baccalaureate (harder / selective GCSE as an examination of the State) and has strongly criticized the decision of Blair send their children to a selective state school (a grammar).
All this, of course, that is for others, for the little people : Mrs. Abbott because she attended a state grammar, and has enrolled his son at one of the most exclusive public schools of the kingdom, the City of London School for Boys - claiming that, yes, but it was unfair She wanted the best for his son. In other words, the public schools and selective state schools are actually better than the non-selective schools to which she would require by law the little people to send their children to schools most qualified should be reserved for important people to real people as she and her friends at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples who write editorials for The Independent fire against the barbarity of school and university exams and an education system that requires the study of mathematics and physics rather than stimulate creativity with illiteracy. Doptutto, as he also rightly said the lady, if she mandato suo figlio in una di quelle scuole di merda che ha contribuito a creare, il pargolo sarebbe finito in una gang senza che nessuno potesse dir niente (perché combattere le gang che reclutano nelle scuole é razzista. Almeno a sentire l'on. Abbott. Almeno nelle scuole che suo figlio non frequenta)
Insomma, rockstar che vanno a parlare all'ONU contro il fenomeno del nomadismo fiscale mentre il loro avvocato completa le pratiche per spostare la residenza fiscale in Olanda e risparmiare un paio di punti percentuali di capital gain; vice-primi ministri che vogliono chiudere le scuole che vanno troppo bene perché sono divisive mentre loro hanno frequentato (con i soldi di papà) public schools very exclusive, and environmentalists millionaires young millionaires who complain that the low cost airlines also allow workers to go on holiday - I begin to suspect that many of those that my friend Yossarian called Hoplites of Good have the regrettable tendency to divide the world into two categories of "I and my friends and Untermenschen . And the thing I like little.
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(*) In principle, his position is less frenzied than it might seem if one takes account of its premises, as said Ms Alibhai-Brown is in effect a Tranz, and as such does not no weight to the positions or opinions of individuals (with the exception of his, of course). From his point of view the individual as such is not at all depository or holder of rights. The subject of law in its world view and the socio-cultural group to which individuals belong. Saying "X is American and it is against the death penalty" is for the lady Alibhai-Brown statement not wrong, but simply meaningless: what you should say is "X is American, and the U.S. worth death ". This, for example, explains why, in commenting on a long list of signatures to a petition against the execution of condemned not know / a to death in Iran, the lady said that the petition had no value because it contained the signatures of American intellectuals. In view of the world of Mrs Alibhai-Brown, the opinion of any individual not named Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has no value, weight or significance, and only the expression of the will of the various ethnic groups / religious / social is to be considered. Here, it is right from his point of view to say that the "Western" (which contain the grouping as USA) is hypocritical to condemn the executions in Iran.
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