1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,280 He can't stay here, and you can't argue with me! 4 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,920 It's not up for discussion. 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:22,680 Just stand to the side and keep calm. 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,000 It's not on! It's not up for discussion! 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,040 Look at the state they've left it in! 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:31,880 He ran off in that direction. 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:33,720 I don't know if you understand. 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,800 He should have been out of here already! 11 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,880 I saw him and I told him as well, "You piece of shit!" 12 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,160 All right. 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:43,960 Understand? 14 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:45,560 We're going now. 15 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,240 And you're an even bigger idiot! 16 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,280 You're breaking my balls here every day! 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:51,280 Thank you. 18 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,240 What filthy scum has come to wreck Italy. 19 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,600 Italy has been completely destroyed by these lowlifes! 20 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:05,040 Get out of here! 21 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,920 Close the borders to this scum! 22 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,000 - Lampedusa? - Lampedusa, yes, yes. 23 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,400 I got here in 2007. 24 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,880 Afghanistan is good, Italy is not good. 25 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,920 I don't have a house, I don't have a shower, I don't have clothes, 26 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,440 I have no food or a place to sleep, nothing. 27 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,440 Look at him... Is there any food for us here? 28 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,240 I sleep on the street... and only pasta, pasta, pasta and sleeping out 29 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,080 In my country I have a house, I have food and clothes. 30 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,560 Ten people come to eat at my house, it's my treat! 31 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,280 - Isn't that right? - Yeah. 32 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:54,920 - Isn't that right? - Yeah, yeah. 33 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,520 Twenty people come to eat at my house, it's my treat! 34 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,720 Isn't that right? Here pasta, eating out and that's all! 35 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,920 First I asked for political asylum in Italy, then in Paris. 36 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,880 When I didn't get asylum in France, they sent me back here. 37 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,920 Hey, pretty. Oh, my God, you're so pretty! 38 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:22,080 She's wonderful. 39 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:23,880 Hey, beautiful! 40 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:26,000 She's beautiful. 41 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:27,200 Isn't she? 42 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:31,360 I live in the San Giovanni neighbourhood. 43 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,880 I got into this work through my parents. 44 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,800 How has the market changed? 45 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:39,400 There are lots of foreigners. 46 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,640 There are hardly any Italians now... 47 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:45,440 ..compared to before. 48 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:47,640 The Italians have changed neighbourhoods. 49 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:54,280 If you look, they're mostly foreign, Chinese, Bangladeshis, Peruvians... 50 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,040 Hardly any Italians. 51 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,080 They have a different mentality, 52 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,680 they way they do things, how they behave... 53 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,120 I have a good relationship with them. 54 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,760 I say hello and goodbye to everyone and get on with my job. 55 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:11,680 I've integrated by now. 56 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,520 You had to integrate? 57 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:16,600 How do you think things will evolve? 58 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:21,320 It'll get worse as time goes on. There won't be any improvements. 59 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:40,200 I'm of Egyptian origin. I'm from Egypt. 60 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,080 Now I'm Italo-Egyptian. 61 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,120 I've been here since '82, you know? 62 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,680 Obviously, I didn't speak a word of Italian, 63 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,520 but spending time with the people, 64 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:59,160 they taught me both Italian and how to live as well. 65 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,320 Oh, God, it was an adventure. 66 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,200 There was no specific reason, 67 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,760 beyond the pleasure of meeting new people, 68 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,040 new cultures, new women! 69 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,280 You know what I mean? A bit of everything. 70 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:21,600 I've been here since '83-'84, 71 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:28,280 I experienced the market when it was outdoors and now. 72 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,120 This is the lively square of the great open-air market 73 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:35,880 of Piazza Vittorio. 74 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:50,080 The Piazza Vittorio market really used to represent Rome, 75 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,800 the Rome of Julius Caesar in my own way, 76 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,800 the Rome of Peppina, Giuseppina, pizza with rocket, 77 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:58,480 people walking through the market. 78 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,160 That was the real Rome. 79 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:07,160 The essence of Piazza Vittorio is joking, laughter, teasing people, 80 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,280 talking with clients, discussing recipes... 81 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,200 The change is due to the arrival of the immigrants 82 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:18,880 who bring their own culture. 83 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,400 Food is part of the culture of every country. 84 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,720 Obviously, there's been change. 85 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,680 Rome now isn't Italy, but the world. 86 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,720 Rome introduces itself to the world in Rome. 87 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:40,720 In '83-'84, when I needed a dessert from my country done properly, 88 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,560 I had to go all round Rome to find it. 89 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:46,160 Now instead I can find it anywhere. 90 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:51,560 There are Chinese, Filipinos, Muslims, Christians... 91 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:54,160 When it comes to religions each person has their own, 92 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,360 but we behave in a civilised way between us. 93 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:02,720 It's fraternity, obviously, we love each other, that's the main thing. 94 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,240 Terrorism? Me, as a human being... 95 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,080 I can be a terrorist or you can be. 96 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,160 It's about individuals, not a country or a religion. 97 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,880 You take that individual and show him the example of Piazza Vittorio 98 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,720 and how people live together in peace! 99 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,720 There's no fear of terrorism here. 100 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,000 I was born in a middle-class neighbourhood, 101 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:11,280 and then I came to live in Piazza Vittorio in 1999. 102 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,160 Because I wanted to live abroad. 103 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,920 At the time I was getting ready to make a film 104 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,400 which was called Roman Summer, 105 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,640 which is set entirely in Piazza Vittorio. 106 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:29,880 The house I chose to live in was the perfect house to shoot the film. 107 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:37,200 The biggest difference is that when I came here there was still the market. 108 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,560 So, visually, the square was totally different. 109 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:43,360 Changes had been taking place for a few years already. 110 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:45,800 The Chinese had come 111 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:50,280 and bought the shops that used to be run by Italians. 112 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,800 It's a neighbourhood that really inspired me and continues to do so. 113 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:00,400 The fact you're interested in Piazza Vittorio 114 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,080 means you found something unique here as well. 115 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:05,600 Because of my work, 116 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,120 I had an anthropological curiosity about faces. 117 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:14,480 Every time I went down to the square, I'd get a surprise, 118 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,320 a face would strike me... 119 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:22,520 And lots of the characters I met in the square 120 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,000 ended up in my films, so... 121 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:31,600 For me, immigration is one of the things that made me move here. 122 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,840 But while for me this was a reason to come here, 123 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,520 for lots of other people it was a reason to leave. 124 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:47,320 The immigrants who come here with a skill often make it here as well. 125 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:52,520 Any building work inside flats, it's almost always Romanians. 126 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,480 They have a great knowledge of building work, 127 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,360 if you go to a pizzeria, 128 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,800 the pizza-makers are almost all Egyptians. 129 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,880 So there is a slice of the immigrants who have managed to integrate. 130 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,520 In terms of the future, 131 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:15,240 it seems evident we're moving in the direction of intolerance... 132 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,200 towards fear and a closing of minds... 133 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:24,720 I think the most sensible response would be to combine the efforts. 134 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,680 Instead of speculating on poorer countries, 135 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,280 richer countries should try to invest, 136 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,960 and assist those countries in regaining economic independence. 137 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:42,240 But that would be going against private interests, 138 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,200 so I don't think it's very likely to happen. 139 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,240 So we speculate... 140 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:55,840 ..but at the same time we're victims of this mechanism, of this system, 141 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,040 along with the real victims. 142 00:15:58,600 --> 00:15:59,920 You wanna look? 143 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,320 You want nude? 144 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,760 I'm not crazy. 145 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,240 I was kidding! Fuck off! 146 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,320 Good evening, Italian friends 147 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,080 Good evening, all my Italian friends 148 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,080 We're all Africans here, the same. 149 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,720 Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau... We're still a big family. 150 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,880 How long have you been here in Italy? 151 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,600 About ten years now. 152 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,120 I came for my work, 153 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,680 a plane from Africa, a contract in Florence, 154 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,280 I played in a show there. 155 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,400 I came to Rome, I played in Rome, I liked Rome and I stayed here. 156 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:56,800 I'm a "griot", like my father and my grandfathers and their fathers... 157 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,320 they were all storytellers. 158 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,760 I'm from Ghana, I've been here for two years and one month. 159 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:07,080 How did you get here? 160 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:11,720 I came by boat. 161 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,120 Italy is always really beautiful. 162 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:48,840 I love working, but now there are very few jobs. 163 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:55,040 The President of my country, Burkina Faso, Blaise Campaore, is a dickhead. 164 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,400 He did bad things to my father. 165 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,080 My father died ten years ago. 166 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,080 When my father died, I was 12, and I moved to Ivory Coast. 167 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,120 I did very little in Ivory Coast. 168 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,680 From there I went to Algeria to Morocco to Tunisia to Libya 169 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,280 to Italy. That's enough now. 170 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:24,080 I'm waiting for my mum to find my papers and passport in Burkina Faso. 171 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,840 So before long I'll be able to go back to my own country. 172 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,320 Thanks, I'm off to eat now. 173 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:33,840 What happened? 174 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,720 Where do you come from in China? 175 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,400 Shenyang, near Shanghai. 176 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,240 How old were you when you left? 177 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:36,760 18. 178 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,520 My father had already moved here and he brought the whole family, 179 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,480 so we could all live together. 180 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,720 My dad died and now Mum has moved back to China. 181 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,720 Chinese people want to work, to work all the time. 182 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,600 Work is the most important thing. 183 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,000 The language is very difficult. 184 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:08,120 It's been ten years now so I can speak Italian, but not fluently. 185 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,680 The first thing is the people are nice, which I like. 186 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,040 The weather's nice. 187 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,440 I really like Italian food. 188 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:25,120 My daughter is in school. She likes the school and her teacher. 189 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,480 She was born here so she's like an Italian. 190 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,240 This is Piazza Vittorio in Rome. 191 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:48,960 It's best known to Romans for its colourful market six days a week, 192 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:51,640 enlivened by housewives, hawkers and all sorts of others, 193 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,680 unaware that just a few metres away, 194 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,800 right in the middle of the square, is a huge park, 195 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:58,720 abandoned now and left to die, 196 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,760 thanks to civic negligence 197 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,720 and, let's face it, the citizens as well. 198 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,560 It's a depressing scene. 199 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:11,400 Parts of the monuments that used to adorn the park can still be seen. 200 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,800 Today old ladies, tramps and cats, above all, live among the rubbish, 201 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:17,880 in this full-blown dump. 202 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,120 It's not only an aesthetic problem, but a hygienic one. 203 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,800 These images, which we know only too well, 204 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,280 offend the nose as much as the eye. 205 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,400 If it's true that looks matter, smells are no less important. 206 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,880 Also important are the needs of visitors 207 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,120 who will be able to tell their children 208 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,040 that they too peed on the monuments of Ancient Rome. 209 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,960 I've been in Rome since 2013. 210 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:56,640 I spent quite a few months sleeping rough, and now I get a small pension, 211 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:01,720 which is worthless, because it doesn't cover rent or anything. 212 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:09,480 So you need to sleep in a hostel or at a friend's house. 213 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:15,160 You get by, you eat at the soup kitchen at Colle Oppio. 214 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,800 Here, in this area, the government does nothing, absolutely nothing. 215 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:27,640 Now I have a very good social worker who's helping me, 216 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,240 but I really suffered... 217 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,560 with the cold, 218 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,040 with the fear... that's a really bad thing... 219 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,320 ..because people rob you here. 220 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,360 They might even kill someone... 221 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,360 ..because they get drunk, 222 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,160 they're drunk from morning to night... 223 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,480 It shouldn't be allowed. 224 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,200 I mean, you can have a drink, a glass of wine won't hurt you... 225 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:01,680 but they're maybe drinking out of despair. Help them as well... 226 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,400 Pope Francis helps a lot. 227 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:11,040 You write to him twice a year and he sends you some money. 228 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,840 Me as well, every six months... 229 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:20,720 but there are so many of us, he can't give everything to everyone. 230 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,680 He helps those he can help. 231 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,160 30 years ago Rome was beautiful, there wasn't all this filth. 232 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:33,400 women should say ‘don’t give a damn’ 233 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,480 They stuff their faces and rob us blind, that's all. 234 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,880 We occupied CasaPound in Piazza Vittorio in 2003, 235 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,760 because there was a severe housing shortage in Rome, 236 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,720 so we looked for an empty state-owned building, 237 00:35:54,840 --> 00:36:01,240 and we found this building, and it became a symbol of "Italian-ness" 238 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,120 within this multi-ethnic area. 239 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,720 You go on with them... and we'll follow you. 240 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,920 I had difficulty finding a house, 241 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:14,160 and I've been living here with my family for 13 years now. 242 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:15,720 I live here as well. 243 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,560 I live with my husband, an activist with CasaPound. 244 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,240 Other people in the building 245 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,680 have started businesses in the neighbourhood, 246 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,960 a restaurant, and we have a bookshop. 247 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,320 We promote culture in an area where culture has vanished. 248 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,760 So we live in our neighbourhood, we don't just sleep here. 249 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,840 We try to renovate it as well. 250 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,560 There's no social structure. It's a neighbourhood 251 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,360 which is a sort of jigsaw of ghettoes 252 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,120 and, as you can see, 253 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,280 we're one of the few Italian institutions 254 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,840 within this chaotic microcosmos. 255 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,360 We're facing a global phenomenon 256 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,480 of migration, the "great replacement". 257 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,720 At this point we can't be welcoming 258 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:06,000 a large part of Africa or Asia into Europe or Italy. 259 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,440 In Italy there are no jobs that Italians don't want to do... 260 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:16,240 there are salaries and types of contract, that actually don't exist, 261 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,000 that Italians can no longer accept. 262 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:24,680 We have fought here to get a minimum wage, to get paid holidays, 263 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,800 maternity leave, sick pay, pensions... 264 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:34,520 a whole series of benefits our fathers fought for. 265 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:39,920 And instead this low-cost labour force that Europe is importing 266 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,520 lowers the minimum, social, trade-union 267 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,920 and salary rights of all workers. 268 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,280 As Marx theorised, among other things, 269 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,960 all it takes is for one worker to accept poorer conditions 270 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,840 for them to be imposed on everyone. 271 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,320 Maybe the issue is new capitalism. 272 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,520 There are those who kept colonising, without armies, 273 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,960 without tangible empires, but by creating economic empires. 274 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,520 Multinationals exploited those countries, then abandoned them, 275 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,320 and made people believe that by reaching the source of capitalism 276 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,040 they'd find paradise, but that's not true. 277 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,720 The capitalist paradise doesn't exist. 278 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,360 It's locked in bank vaults or the stock market, 279 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,120 and in the hands of ten people around the world. 280 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:33,000 I agree with taking all those who arrive to Mr Rothschild's house 281 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,000 or the gardens of the super-rich. 282 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:40,280 Fine, he can afford to look after them all, but Italian workers can't. 283 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,160 Those continents continue to be exploited, 284 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,800 they are still very rich 285 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,680 in resources and materials we don't have... 286 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,480 diamonds, gold, oil, timber... 287 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,720 We have to affirm the right not to a welcome 288 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,080 but to not to have to emigrate. Why is this never mentioned? 289 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,920 We have to affirm the right of these peoples 290 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,280 to have a development and a history 291 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,480 in the places where they're born. 292 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,440 The Italian and European people have the same enemy 293 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,720 as the peoples of Africa or Asia. 294 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:14,480 The people who keep Italians and Europeans ground down 295 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,440 are the same who block development in Africa. 296 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:22,240 Therefore there's a need to regain European sovereignty 297 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,000 and for the Africans to do the same in their lands, 298 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,440 which would ensure a different kind of development. 299 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:35,200 What we don't want is a cataclysm, a war between the losers, 300 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,080 because that's what it is. 301 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:41,760 Those who are able to live in nice neighbourhoods 302 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,920 and send their kids to good schools, 303 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:49,720 are able to maintain their lifestyles without being in any way affected 304 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:55,000 by the visible effects of uncontrolled immigration 305 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,240 on the life of the community. 306 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,560 The elites become increasingly elite, 307 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:05,080 while the poor are increasingly poor, increasingly an underclass. 308 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:10,760 There is no middle class any more, there's no support structure, 309 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,040 this is what we see. 310 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,720 The European Union is an ongoing surrender of sovereignty 311 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:21,000 in relation to every area of life where the EU decides to interfere, 312 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,240 such as food quality standards, 313 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,360 but also economic and financial sovereignty. 314 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,280 We are no longer sovereign. 315 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,760 If there's not a radical change, this will increasingly become the case. 316 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:38,360 There are statistics that say in Italy we will be completely replaced. 317 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,720 The Italian people in a few decades... 318 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:42,680 50 years. 319 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,800 In 50 years, we won't exist. 320 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:49,440 So you don't need a crystal ball to see the future. 321 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,320 I'm from Basilicata. 322 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:40,720 I came here for a holiday with my uncle, my father's brother, 323 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,720 and from that I said to this uncle, "I want to stay in Rome!" 324 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,280 The first time I came to Rome... 325 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,480 I've always lived with my sister... 326 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,000 and I was basically just enchanted by Rome. 327 00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:01,040 I've been living in this neighbourhood for 55 years! 328 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,920 My husband never wanted to leave this neighbourhood. 329 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,520 Life used to be really good here. 330 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,880 We used to go to Colle Oppio. 331 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:19,320 It was quieter then, you could go for a walk in peace and quiet. 332 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:26,720 It's not like that now. Now people are afraid of these foreigners. 333 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:31,440 There are good and bad people, and it's the same with Italians. 334 00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:36,160 In the early days, in the 1960s, there were foreigners, 335 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:40,120 and my husband would take a bowl of pasta to them at Colle Oppio, 336 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,480 because he felt sorry for these people. 337 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:50,240 But when you hear about some of the things they do, you get angry. 338 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,720 You think, "Why do you have to come here and upset us in Italy?" 339 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,400 Italy can't welcome everyone. 340 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,960 I mean, there are lots of Italians who need help, 341 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:06,720 and if we help these people, we can't help the Italians. 342 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,480 The Italians need to come first and then later we can help them. 343 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,000 This is the thing. Especially those who are fleeing wars. 344 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:19,600 It's so sad when you see children having to come on those boats... 345 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,920 even just seeing them is painful. 346 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:36,840 Here we are in this beautiful park in Rome, Colle Oppio. 347 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:41,840 We're migrant workers from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, 348 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,200 and we're celebrating the Return of the Sun Festival. 349 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:50,520 It's the Andean New Year, the start of the year 5524, 350 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,880 according to the Aymara calendar. 351 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:59,600 This is a feast day that is celebrated throughout South America. 352 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:05,040 This is a historical place, like Ancient Rome, 353 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,880 which also has a culture that is millennia old. 354 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,160 We too have a millennia-old culture, 355 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:15,720 we come from the Inca culture, the culture of Tawantinsuyu, 356 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,880 who ruled the whole of South America. 357 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,000 We're here to celebrate. 358 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,360 We're workers and we're happy 359 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:29,800 that our father, the sun, gives us fruit, water, rain, pachamama... 360 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,160 We're also angry about the fact that in our country, 361 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:38,280 international companies are contaminating the whole ecosystem 362 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,720 drilling for oil or mining. 363 00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,960 Mother Earth needs to be respected! 364 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,960 We're workers, we have our own culture, 365 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:54,560 and we maintain our own traditions and our own identity. 366 00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:00,840 Thank you to the people of Italy who have welcomed us and given us work. 367 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,880 We earn a wage and we help you to grow as well. 368 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,920 I'm sorry to say, though, that the situation for us migrant workers 369 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,200 is getting worse every day. 370 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,720 We've had many rights taken from us. 371 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:16,720 We don't have citizenship, 372 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,840 and here every day... 373 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,040 ..there is a form of modern slavery, practically... 374 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,880 ..that of neoliberalism. 375 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,720 The future's uncertain. The future's uncertain for us. 376 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,400 But we still have to live! 377 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:57,320 I see increasingly fewer people from here, especially of a certain age. 378 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:02,720 They are heroes who continue to come here, with dignity. 379 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:09,040 But there are positive aspects as well. For example, football... 380 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:15,160 allows children of different nationalities to play together, 381 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,280 to be united. 382 00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,000 But there are also people who have problems, 383 00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:26,000 and so this is a place where they can spend the day 384 00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:32,440 and try to figure out how to resolve the problem of lunch or dinner... 385 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,720 relying on one of the charities, maybe. 386 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,480 But there are also young people, I believe, 387 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:46,440 who take part in criminal activities, such as pickpockets, etc, 388 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,960 good-for-nothings who maybe have had a series of disappointments, 389 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,280 who haven't managed to integrate, 390 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,720 who haven't found a permanent job, there are all sorts of reasons... 391 00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:01,640 But the thing is a lot of them hassle the people who come here 392 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,640 and who are just minding their own business. 393 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,200 No, we're from Tuscany, but we've been in Rome for a long time. 394 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:15,920 Piazza Vittorio is still a lovely neighbourhood, I can tell you that. 395 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,280 It's always been a beautiful square. 396 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,440 It has the lot. Children playing... 397 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:25,080 But, yes, it's a beautiful square. 398 00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:28,720 Sure, there are people from all over...but... 399 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,160 Then there are the pains in the arse as well. 400 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:40,680 He had a saffron-coloured lapel 401 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:46,360 And a cyclamen-coloured tailcoat 402 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:51,080 He used to walk from Lodi to Milan 403 00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:54,920 To meet the beautiful Gigogin 404 00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,760 Gigogin, my hope, I used to call her sweet love 405 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:03,000 In a world of poetry we'd still be together. 406 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,120 Things are getting better all the time. 407 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,440 Even the children playing... 408 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,440 It's always getting better. 409 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:21,400 Because a square that doesn't have children playing isn't a square. 410 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,240 I'm from Calabria, originally. 411 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,080 She's been here for years. 412 00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:29,840 How do you get on with people here? 413 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,400 Very well. They're nice. 414 00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:36,640 Obviously, you don't want to be "shooting" them! 415 00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,480 The way you treat them is how they'll treat you. You understand? 416 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,840 If the football come over here, I'll kick it back! 417 00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:51,520 Thank you. 418 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:52,560 You're welcome! 419 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:15,960 Who called me? 420 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:17,360 - Me. - You? 421 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,000 I'm from China. 422 00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:22,880 My hometown is called Hangzhou. 423 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,360 It just happened. 424 00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,760 In China I wasn't in the restaurant trade. 425 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,720 My father's an engineer. 426 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,920 He designs and builds houses. 427 00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,960 I studied a bit, and he built up a big company. 428 00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:44,160 But I didn't like it much, being tied to one place, working with numbers... 429 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:48,960 Then destiny took a hand, and I found a husband in Italy. 430 00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:53,280 I got married and I moved to Italy. 431 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,560 In fact I've been in Italy for 25 years now. 432 00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:59,440 23 in China. That makes 48. 433 00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,160 Now you know my age! 434 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,720 Honestly, I really feel more Italian than Chinese. 435 00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:09,960 Most of the Chinese in Rome come from a city called Wen Zhou. 436 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:14,520 I'm not from there, I don't speak the same dialect as them, 437 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:16,680 for them, I'm a foreigner. 438 00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:22,040 In the 1990s, 1996, there were five or ten shops. 439 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:27,800 Then in the period 2000-2005, they popped up all over the place, 440 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,280 that was the peak. 441 00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,080 People always ask, "What's their business? What do they sell?" 442 00:52:32,240 --> 00:52:35,720 Because the shops are so small and there's never anyone in them. 443 00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:39,800 This is because their shops are showrooms, they don't sell retail, 444 00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:41,800 but wholesale. 445 00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:43,400 The buyer comes, 446 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,720 30 items, notes the numbers and then goes somewhere else to get it. 447 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,480 My family is all here. 448 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,760 Me, my husband, my married son, my daughter... 449 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,680 my grandson...they're all here. 450 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,480 But my mum and dad are in China, my brother is in China. 451 00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,800 When I go to China it's for a holiday. 452 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,720 If you ask me if I'd like to live in China, 453 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,120 the answer is no, I live here, I prefer it here. 454 00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:12,240 I really feel at home here. I really like Piazza Vittorio. 455 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,840 I said to myself, "Piazza Vittorio is so beautiful!" 456 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,720 Piazza Vittorio is the biggest square in Rome, 457 00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:23,080 it's the only square in Rome ringed by porticoes... 458 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,960 It's close to the station, it's close to the Coliseum... 459 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,000 It's a beautiful place, I really like it. 460 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,480 They've sorted it out a bit. 461 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:37,400 There was a time when there were thieves and bag-snatchers, 462 00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,280 maybe it still happens... 463 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:44,160 I had the unpleasant experience of having a gun pointed at my head! 464 00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:49,680 I got robbed on a special day, Christmas 2015! 465 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,000 The guy was Italian, a Roman, he had a Roman accent. 466 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,320 It was five past midnight. 467 00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,000 I was at the cash register, head down, playing on my phone... 468 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:04,360 This guy comes in, all dressed in black with a ski mask. 469 00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,600 He came through the first door, second door, pulled out the gun... 470 00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,160 I was, like, "What's happening?" I didn't understand what it was. 471 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:16,360 Then he came over and said, "Give me the takings, give me the takings!" 472 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,920 My husband was sitting at another table. 473 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,840 He saw what was happening, threw a chair... 474 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,080 and he hit the guy's arm... 475 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,200 but not the one with the gun, so the gun didn't drop. The guy... 476 00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,120 He pointed the gun at my husband. 477 00:54:33,240 --> 00:54:35,360 My husband hid, 478 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,040 the robber came behind the counter 479 00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,400 and put the gun at my head, forcing me to the floor. 480 00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:47,080 Then he opened the cash register and stuffed the money into his pockets. 481 00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:48,160 Then he left. 482 00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,640 It's not like the place was empty. There were six men. 483 00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,520 When I went to look, they were all under their tables. 484 00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,360 There was a definite lack of courage there! 485 00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:05,240 Then one of them called the police and they came right away. 486 00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,080 The future is a bit difficult at the moment. 487 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,800 When Italy went from the lira to the euro, 488 00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:19,280 a lot of people became poorer, especially those on salaries. 489 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,640 It was like salaries were halved. 490 00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:27,800 People with their own businesses felt it a bit less, 491 00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,800 because if my costs go up, I increase prices. 492 00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,800 There's a Chinese proverb, 493 00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,880 "When the water rises so does the boat." 494 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:40,240 The boat floats. If the water rises, so does the boat. 495 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,840 Mao for me is a great character. 496 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,840 There was nobody like him anywhere. 497 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:53,640 First he was a great writer, a great poet. 498 00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:56,560 As President of China, he thought only of the Chinese. 499 00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:57,720 This is the truth! 500 00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,760 I find the man fascinating. 501 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,520 Are you photographing everything? 502 00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,320 He's taking a picture of us. 503 00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:19,160 People always say, "What a lovely couple!" 504 00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,720 This is the most beautiful square in Europe, let's say. 505 00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:33,680 Because this isn't a park, it's a square, Piazza Vittorio. 506 00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,080 Tell me where you can find a square this size. 507 00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:41,240 If they looked after it a bit better, it would be really wonderful. 508 00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,840 I've been here for 40 years. 509 00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,440 It was different when there was the market, 510 00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:50,400 but the market wasn't properly cared for either. 511 00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:57,120 Then afterwards we thought we were, I don't know, a lovely neighbourhood, 512 00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,680 instead it went from bad to worse. 513 00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,240 There used to be a toilet. 514 00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:06,280 They removed that and now there's an open-air bathroom. 515 00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,360 Everyone is... 516 00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:13,800 Now it's a mess, and there are all these people with their faces hidden. 517 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,800 All these Muslims with their faces covered, and we don't like that. 518 00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:19,440 We don't like that. 519 00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:23,840 A headscarf is OK, but all covered up, no, that's not OK. 520 00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,520 I don't like that. 521 00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:32,080 There aren't any problems because they're good hard-working, but... 522 00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:37,000 We're just not happy with these drunks, but we avoid them. 523 00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:41,760 As soon as we see something wrong, we move to avoid... 524 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:49,120 We make a mess, we can't deny it and say we don't, but... 525 00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:54,880 but we pay all sorts of taxes, but everything's a mess here. 526 00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,880 There used to be gardeners but they're gone now. 527 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:02,200 It's not good, it's not good. You can't do that in Italy. 528 01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:06,720 We've no idea what the hell they want. 529 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:12,920 There was never enough money, so what there is we'll make do with. 530 01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:14,760 Well, I like Rome. 531 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,960 I never liked the place where I was born. 532 01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,360 I like Rome, and so what? 533 01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:26,080 Do you have to be from rome to like rome 534 01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:28,760 It used to be really beautiful... 535 01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,880 Now it's disgusting. 536 01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:35,160 There was a fountain down there that was all lit up, 537 01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:41,160 then there was a café with an orchestra and singers in the evening. 538 01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,360 Now there's nothing! 539 01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:45,640 What's changed? 540 01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,400 These other people here... 541 01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,280 They've taken over the square, so they have. 542 01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:57,800 So... 543 01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:01,680 I'm drunk on the sun 544 01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,400 I'm drunk on the sea 545 01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:09,920 I'm drunk on the sun 546 01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:14,280 I'm drunk on you 547 01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:19,800 My hands are trembling and you want to know why 548 01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:23,000 I'm drunk on the sun 549 01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:30,720 I'm drunk on you! 550 01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:38,600 Thank you. 551 01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:54,520 Whoever eats of this bread will have eternal life. 552 01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:59,000 And the bread I give you is my flesh 553 01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,640 for the life of the world. 554 01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:59,320 I've lived here since '56. 555 01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,720 I've been in Rome since '56. 556 01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:04,560 And here since '63. 557 01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:08,760 The same as ever. It wasn't maintained the way it is now, 558 01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,160 that's for sure. 559 01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:13,720 I'm talking about years and years ago, 560 01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:16,920 when you worked more after dinner than during the day. 561 01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,720 It was full of people. 562 01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:21,640 Hey, Mustapha! 563 01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:23,480 My name is Mustapha. 564 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,160 Hello, Mustapha. 565 01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:26,360 Hello. 566 01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:32,000 In Italian! I've been in Italy 12 years! 567 01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:33,920 I'm from Senegal. 568 01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:40,040 Since 2004. I started working here in 2006. 569 01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,560 I always say it's destiny. 570 01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:47,320 I was looking for work one day 571 01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:52,080 and a friend of mine told me about the lady here, so I came. 572 01:05:52,240 --> 01:06:00,560 The first day it was a bit weird for me because it was all new to me. 573 01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:06,600 But since I had a bit of life experience, I adapted quite easily, 574 01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:08,320 with her help. 575 01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:13,600 After so many years in the business, she gave me advice which I took. 576 01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:17,320 For me it's something more profound. 577 01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:20,720 It depends on the situation in the country. 578 01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,960 Because before I came here in about 2004, 579 01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:31,960 it was easy to find certain types of work. 580 01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:36,200 But as time went on, if you look around, 581 01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:41,480 you'll see that these types of jobs which were for immigrants 582 01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:43,400 are now being done by Italians. 583 01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:47,600 So it becomes harder for immigrants to find work. 584 01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:53,600 This is also a result of the flux of immigrants coming recently. 585 01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,000 It's not the way it used to be. 586 01:06:56,120 --> 01:07:02,400 Before, the immigrants were better educated and brought something, 587 01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:07,160 but now most of them come from villages or that sort of place, 588 01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:10,760 so it's difficult for these immigrants to integrate. 589 01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:15,320 For example, it takes at least 10, 15 years to learn the language. 590 01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:02,680 I'm better off here in this neighbourhood. 591 01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:06,720 Italians are nice people. If you don't have papers, it's a problem. 592 01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,640 If you have the right papers, there are no problems. 593 01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:14,120 I'm here from 8am till 10pm. 594 01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,000 I'm always working. 595 01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:18,480 Now we're in Ramadan. 596 01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,360 18 days have passed already. 597 01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,920 Near Piazza Vittorio, there are four mosques. 598 01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:26,960 Thank you. 599 01:08:29,440 --> 01:08:33,120 I'm from Bangladesh. I came here eight years ago. 600 01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:36,720 I came here to work, first as a student, 601 01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:40,520 now I have a general store. 602 01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:47,960 Well, work's OK. It's not fantastic and it's not terrible! 603 01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:49,600 My family, my son... 604 01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,680 my father and mother are in Bangladesh. 605 01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,440 - Do you go and see them sometimes? - Not yet, no. 606 01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:58,000 In Bangladesh there are political problems. 607 01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:24,920 I come from Moldavia. 608 01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,280 I came to Italy 16 years ago. 609 01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:35,920 At the time, because of perestroika, lots of people were unemployed, 610 01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,600 and we came here looking for work. 611 01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:42,040 I came 16 years ago... 612 01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:47,760 ..and I worked as a maid for a family. 613 01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:54,000 When I came at first, it took me about a month to find a job. 614 01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:57,400 After a month, I found a job and I've been working here since. 615 01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:02,440 I was lucky, because I was here and they were in Moldavia on their own. 616 01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,000 They started their studies. 617 01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:08,680 My oldest daughter studied journalism at college 618 01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:13,040 and started working in radio, despite being on her own there. 619 01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:19,200 Then, gradually, Cristina started, she studied there, 620 01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:22,400 she went to high school. 621 01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:26,320 Eventually she said, "Mum, I want to come to Italy with you." 622 01:10:26,480 --> 01:10:32,040 So I started all the procedures for her to be able to come legally. 623 01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:39,280 She came to study in Italy and so we keep each other company. 624 01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:46,600 I've worked hard and honestly all these years. 625 01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:51,680 I didn't have any holidays, no Christmas or Easter... 626 01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:54,720 I worked all the time. 627 01:10:55,600 --> 01:11:00,480 Now, despite everything, I'm very happy with both my daughters. 628 01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:07,880 My oldest has two children, a boy and a girl. I'm very happy with them. 629 01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,600 They have a lovely family and a beautiful house, they're really fine. 630 01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:14,360 Cristina has a beautiful daughter. 631 01:11:14,480 --> 01:11:17,400 Whenever I have a day off I come to see her. 632 01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:19,320 I can't wait to see her. 633 01:11:19,480 --> 01:11:24,200 I'm very happy despite being far from home and my brothers. 634 01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:28,200 Well, that's all right, what can you do? That's life. 635 01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:38,520 My face is all...