The writer and intellectual Gazmend Kapllani, who heads the first chair for Albanian studies at DePaul University in Chicago, speaks in Ditmir Bushati's podcast about the Albanian immigrant as an identity, but also as a mentality. Why we Albanians see immigration to this day as a curse and why the host countries are seeing it as hatred today.
Speaking about the story, the writer Kapllani points out another irony of the story, the exaltation of the wrong characters.
"Our two biggest problems remain the recognition of values. Ditmir, if you keep two lists. The list of people of little or no value that during different regimes or during different governments we have honored or enriched and appreciated, and the list of people of value, with knowledge, that we have either marginalized or destroyed. If you keep these two lists, historically you will see what is the big problem we have. Now we are talking in the abstract that these are not things that are resolved the next day. But they are the two basic values of a society in order to function humanely, function and move forward. Every human society has its own problems, its own contradictions. There is no perfect society, but there are societies that are broken by the values of meritocracy and justice. These still remain a problem in our society, and I'm not just talking about this government or that government, but they remain problems that we have to face as a society. They have very deep roots, but I believe that politics plays a very big role in promoting these values", said Kapllani.
He said that the chair for Albanian studies (the only one in the USA) was established by an Albanian-American, immigrant, Hydajet Bregu, who did it without fuss and that he regrets that to this day there has been no evaluation from the Albanian side.
Speaking about the future of reading compared to technology, the professor says that his biggest problem is the communication bridge with generation Z. And that the famous question, who is ahead in society today, those who read a lot or those who don't read... the answer is clear.
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