The Jungle camp in Calais has challenged the indifference of official Europe to the plight of refugees for close on two decades. It has survived previous attempts at demolition. As long as the grievances that gave rise to remain it will come back to haunt the conscience of the continent.
Tag: children
A Finnish father teaches his child to hit and hate refugees
If you want a lesson how racism and hatred is passed on to the next generation, watch the video clip (in Finnish) of a father telling her daughter to hit the teddy bear, which is supposed to be a refugee.
Enrique Tessieri: Racist harassment was part of my short childhood in Finland
When I lived briefly in Helsinki in 1958-61, I still remember how I got harassed as a child by other children for not looking Finnish enough. If I experienced such violence when I was a child over 50 years ago, why do we still have a difficult time coming to grips with a social ill…