Watch: ‘We Don’t Love Our Country’ – Historian Charles Xuereb Says Developers Are ‘Copying’ Malta’s Colonial Rulers
Historian and writer Charles Xuereb wasn’t mincing his words when it came to how he believes Maltese people regard their country… and who the people behind the islands’ latest mega-developments are acting like.
“Unfortunately, we don’t love our country,” Xuereb said during an exhaustive, four-and-a-half-hour-long episode of Jon Mallia’s podcast. “If we loved our country, would we be ruining the very few greenery that’s left? If we loved our country, would we be erecting all these towers, which won’t just literally take away our light?”
But Xuereb did not stop there, going on to compare some of the islands’ developers to the colonial rulers of Malta’s past.
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“These people are copying what used to happen during the colonial times,” Xuereb said, bringing up a number of instances from the British Empire’s rule over the Maltese islands.
“They used to come to Sliema, it was all just farms, fields and beautiful bays, and say it’s perfect for their soldiers, and build barracks all over,” Xuereb recounted. “They went to Valletta, they wanted to take St. John’s Co-Cathedral in 1816, and because they didn’t manage because of Napoleon, they built St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral.”
Do you agree with Xuereb’s assessment?
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