{"id":45,"date":"2020-12-07T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/?p=45"},"modified":"2020-12-10T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T08:05:24","slug":"speech-by-a-refugee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Speech by a Refugee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<center>I\u2019m still stuck between the past and the present, between love and hatred, between <br>sadness and happiness, between my old home and this one. The love and happiness I felt <br>in the past have changed into hatred and sadness in my homeland, where the government <br>plays with us like tools.<br>\nI\u2019m still stuck in the hearts of the dead and the living, asking myself \u201cAm I dead or <br>alive?\u201d<br>\nI still have that thought which lingers slowly but still catches me off guard until it takes <br>over my mind. What happened with my beloved land and people?<br>\nI tried so hard to know all about the wars, the revolutions that my old country had, I went <br>through the history books, the geography papers asking myself \u201cwas there a reason why I <br>left my beloved home? Can somebody answer me?!\u201d But\u2026 there was nothing.<br>\nNothing except some false, fake, flawed and unjust concepts and politics that took over <br>my precious country.<br>\nAll the effort I put into my studies, all the friends I played football with, my beloved <br>house I grew up in, my memories, my neighbor\u2019s morning greetings, \u2026<br>\nAll destroyed in a second. Tell me how fair is it? My once beloved country, my brothers <br>and sisters, my wonderful country\u2019s mountains, seas, nature, all surrounded by destroyed <br>homes and broken hearts.<br>\nCould it be that I\u2019m starting to let myself believe that I no longer belong to that old <br>faraway land I once called Home?!<br>\nOr have I actually just started to realize that I\u2019m only an immigrant, a refugee, a stranger <br>on this land?<br>\nMy father once having owned a business, he lost everything and now works day <br>and night, starting from the bottom again, embracing any job, watching him doing so much <br>only to get very little in return, working for his little girls and boys back home.<br>\nMy mother cleaning people\u2019s houses, despite being abused by ignorant people, despite <br>receiving the looks of humility and disgust, working day and night so that her girls grow <br>up to be strong and independent.<br>\nOh dear faraway homeland\u2026\u2026 I strive to see the point in all the people that died in your <br>name, that suffered so we can have a better life, but I fail because when I look around I <br>see nothing but injustice, and misogyny, racism and prejudice, poverty and greed, crimes <br>but no punishment, schools but no education, political thieves and no leaders, people but <br>no voices.<\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still stuck between the past and the present, between love and hatred, between <br \/>sadness and happiness, between my old home and this one. The love and happiness I felt <br \/>in the past have changed into hatred and sadness in my homeland, where the government <br \/>plays with us like tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-4","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web1.unine.ch\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}