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1. O.M.G. Look at that hair! / It’s so weird! / You know they try to cut it but it still grows back. There is nothing you can do! / I don’t think it’s acceptable!

2. I always hated those little ones, they sneak into places they shouldn’t be. / And they are so small. I don’t even notice them! / Yeah!

3. Hey look at that fat one! / I don’t know he is just way too big! / Did you know they have special cars, because they don’t fit in the normal sized ones!

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1. Look at that one! / There come the wobbly eyes! / I heard they can’t see colors properly. / That can’t possibly be normal to have eyes outside your head.

2. We are all different but actually the same cos / we all live on planet Earth. / Hey, look at those weirdoes! Yeah!

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Immigration Office

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1. Waiting room 7:12 a.m. At the immigration office
2. Mom, I don’t want to read it’s boring! / Come on Tausi, the teacher said that you should read more often!
3. Where do you come from? / I was born in Codru, Moldavia.

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1. I’m bored / Ma Ji look at the photos of your cousin
2. He is beautiful and small. /Do you remember your aunt E-Hui? They live in Wenzouh now.
3.Excuse me, I would like to enquire about the family reunification process. / Go down the hall to the office on your right.
4. I want to request Italian citizenship for my son, who is 18 years old.
5. What’s our number?

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1. Mr. Pawan, please sign here…. Here is your temporary residence permit , with this you can ….
2. I can attend my sister’s wedding and come back. / Yes.
3. Karim has just gone back home, he has gone to visit his mom. / Your brother has always been a good boy, and Samir? How is he?
4.What’s for dinner tonight? / You have to write your surname here. / What is your doll’s name? / Clara.

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Who can request an Italian residence permit?

As of 1 January 2012, there were just over 3.600.000 non-EU citizens living in Italy, around 100,000 more than the year before. Between 2010 and 2011, the numbers of new entrants arriving in the country decreased sharply: 361,690 permits were issued during 2011, almost 40% less than the year before.

The majority of migrants come from Morocco (506.369), Albania (491.495), China (277.570), Ukraine (223.782) and the Philippines (152.382). But the greatest number of migrants come from Romania (1.071.342).

Who are we?

In spite of their young average age, the foreign population (15-64 years) has similar levels of education to Italians. Almost half of foreigners possess a middle school degree, compared to 45.3% of Italians. The numbers of graduates are almost identical (40.9% and 41.1% respectively), while one immigrant out of ten possesses a university degree compared to 13.5% of Italians. In 2011 foreign labour represented 10.2% of the total labour force.
The employment rate among foreigners continues to be higher than that among Italians (66.2% compared to 60.7% respectively), as does the unemployment rate (12.1% compared to 8.0% respectively). On the other hand, the inactivity rates among the immigrant population, are almost ten percentage points lower than those among the Italian population (29.1% compared to 38.6%). For the third year in a row, deteriorating working conditions, and particularly declining rates of employment, are more pronounced among immigrants than among Italians.

(Source: ISTAT)

How does one get a residence permit?
Those arriving in Italy for the first time have 8 days to formally request a residence permit.
To get a residence permit it is necessary to present:
A request form
A valid passport with entry visa
A photocopy of the document
4 identical recent passport photograph
A stamp worth 14,12 Euro
Documentation relevant to the type of residence permit requested
Fees ranging from 80-100 Euros, paid at the post office
Duration of the residence permit
Up to 6 months for seasonal jobs.
Up to 9 months for seasonal jobs that require an extension.
Up to 1 year for study or vocational training.
Up to 2 years for self-employment, employment for an indefinite period and family reunification.

The permit is issued after 4 to 6 months by the immigration service.
In the meantime, applicants are provided with a receipt for the request for the permit or for renewal of the permit.

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1. During a dinner our friends are involved in a discussion…/  Don’t you feel ashamed to talk like that? You who once called yourself a communist.

2. I’m just trying to think about my future and I don’t want to imagine my children playing in a park amongst Chinese who eat dogs, Moroccan pushers and black guys that steal jobs!

3. There are many Chinese people, Moroccans deal drugs but black guys are good! / [..good for what?] / …making love? / …eating? /…In their souls?

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1. You talk like that but Aziz is a friend of yours! / …he’s different…he sells hashish to me! / what about Samya? / …She’s different… and she’s really hot / and what about Martino? / I hate him / Why? What have I done to you?(Martino is the boy with the glasses on)

2. Anyway I’m ok about their presence, but they just have to stay at home! / Ssst! Listen to this amazing melody…/ It’s Loretta playing music with a glass of wine!

3. Let’s stop this bullshit and let’s toast Loretta and her marvelous music! / Great / Good

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On a Paris metro a typical French girl is reading a story that a typical Italian guy sitting with her wrote

1. Ha ha ha your comic is  terrific! / Thanks Florette!

2. I love the way you criticize your country, I knew you were very racist, more than us, that could be because you have a lot of problems…

3. Bla bla bla…mafia..bla bla bla “bunga-bunga”bla bla bla racism…but you make good Pizzas!

4. Hey… where are you going?!? / We will be late for  Jean-Jerome’s party! / I need to use the bidet / …use what?!?

1. Airport / Taxi!!!

2. Are you Italian? Pizza, mafia and mandolino?

3. What? Would you say polenta, lega and aperitivo!

4. Taxi!!!

5. Are you Italian? Polenta, lega and aperitivo?

6. What? Would you say pastella, camorra and neomelodico! / What?

7. …But say many things!

1. Please don’t tell me I’m normal, the real WISDOM is kind of being NOT NORMAL, in other words being NOT ORDINARY.

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1. Terrone!

2. Vucumprà!

3. Terrorist

4. Toffee-nosed

5. Mafioso!

6. Drunken

7. What’s this stink of fried stuff?!

8. Nazi!

9. Robbers

 

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Hey… we heard you!

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1. My name is Amanda. I spent most of my childhood in Chile.

2. I was nine when my family decided to move to Portugal.

3. «The mushroom releases spores into the air, in a process known as sporulation».

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1. Our mom is Portuguese but I was born with darker skin and Chilean facial features like my father. /  I bet she doesn’t shower!

2. Because of this and that, Portuguese children refused to accept me as one of them. / Good morning class! I want you to welcome Amanda, she’s from Chile, and can’t speak Portuguese very well yet. / Chile? That’s in China, right? / Pffft, hehehe.

3. «The spores that land in their ideal environment begin to produce mycelium under the ground».

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1. When I arrived I saw a lot of posters against ethnic and social discrimination. /  This was clearly an issue.

2. Look at her skin! She’s a gypsy and all gypsies are robbers!

3. I’m sure her parents are criminals fleeing from justice!

4. «The growth of the mycelium produces a young, very small mushroom covered by a structure called the universal veil».

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1. Lisbon is home to a lot of different communities. In the streets there is a multicultural feel, but at home people change their behavior, believing that they are hidden by their four walls, and they freely express their fears and preconceptions. Children imitate these as soon as they are outside, revealing the truth behind the mask. /  It’s scary to see that it’s the same everywhere.

2. My father says that it’s because of people like her that our country has problems…

3. Stop! You’re wrong!

4. «The mushroom breaks through this veil and grows taller and wider».

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1. I grew up confused about my identity. It took me a while to understand that my physical features don’t define who I am or where I belong. I could be Chilean or Portuguese if I wanted to. What makes a country is the people who live in it, no matter where they come from.

2. The adult mushroom society produces spores stereotypes, and can the process start again?

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1. Thanks for inviting me, Lena! /  Come in! I hope you are hungry. I cooked a lot. / Friends, this is Okan. He studies with me.

2. Okan, take some sauce! / Wow, it’s going to be summer soon! / Yeah! We should go to the lake tomorrow!

3. Okan, where are you actually from? / It’s a Turkish name. You can’t hear that? / Me? What do you mean? / … I was born in Berlin.

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1. Hey, you see that blonde woman over there? She’s not from here, I’m sure! / Yeah! She must be from Romania. They always look so good!

2. Ciao bella! Where are you from?! / Yeah, those girls from the East!

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1. Hola amiga! Do you need sunglasses? / Yes, actually I think I do!

2. Where are you from? / um… from Germany. / You don’t look like, you know. More like from Czech Republic or somewhere like that. / Yeah maybe…

3. My cousin told me that it’s easy to find work in Germany. Life should be better there… / Oh. But…all that glitters ain’t gold!

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1. 1er étage / Bonjour Monsieur Prakash! / Bonjour Monsieur Monnier! / You have been working in our company for two years. I have never asked you, where do you come from? / Oh, I’m living in Nanterre.

2. No, I mean, where are you really from? / Ah! I was born in England. / Yes, but your home country?

3. You mean, where my parents were born? …in India. / On yes! 8 years ago I spent my holidays there. It was great! …I was a young man! Ha ha!

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1. Raising funds for integration initiatives – Balkansoul

2. Don’t give a damn about this country, just wanna go back to mine

3. According to anthropologists our recorded history began 5500-6000 years ago, through the invention of writing and the rise of the first civilizations. (and wars as well)/  Geez.. did they see me? What are they thinking? No… there’s no time for that. / More or less 3300 years ago, the Treaty of Kadesh was the very first peace treaty in history. / The past century was ruled by telecommunications, a great step towards today’s global village.

4. Thanks Sir! / Wa.. Wait please! / Just hurry up

5. Don’t worry honey, / dad’s never late / I’m not sure about which of these dates it was that humankind started to acknowledge the concept of human diversity.

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1. Grrrr

2. Grrrrr / Huoooo! / But sure it didn’t happen during the 2.500.000 years of continuous fear-fight preceding the invention of writing.

3. Did they see me?/ Prehistory. 99,7% of the whole of human history,  is more than enough to get accustomed to both tools and agriculture…

4. No time. Must run. / Not to mention stereotypes

5. They are all dangerous.

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1. International mar[ket]..

2. Dad is half Swiss. / Swiss people are always on time.

3. That’s why whenever I’m asked if it’s really wrong to be against any other race…

4. I say: “of course, it isn’t…”

5. Daddy!

6. Come on!  They’re about to start! / “I kinda hate marathons too”

1. Oui, I am French! I stink, I eat baguettes and I don’t know about the bidet!

2. I am an Englishman. I take afternoon tea at 5 o’ clock, I drive on the opposite side and I always dress in an elegant way.

3. I am Italian. I always eat pizza, I scream and move my hands when I talk, I work and like all Italian people I am a mafioso (except people from Venice: they go on the gondola!)

4. I am Swiss. I am always on time and if you are late I eat chocolate. Like every Swiss person I work in a bank.

5. I am Russian, I drink vodka and wear huge hairy hats, during summer too.

6. I am American. I eat every day at the fast food place, I don’t read books and I just watch movies with a lot of special effects.

7. I am Chinese, I only eat rice and I seem like all  other Chinese people.

8. I am a Jew. I am a loan shark like every other Jew, I always dress in black, I have a big nose, a long beard and wear a Rabbi hat.

9. Who came up with all these foolish things?

10. Someone really foolish!