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Pete Buttigieg Is a National Hero … in Malta
The Maltese are already making plans for what they will do if their favorite son’s son, Pete Buttigieg, is elected as the next U.S. president
There is a popular saying in Maltese that goes something like this: Tixtrix hut fil-bahar, or “don’t pay for the fish while they are still in the sea.”
But on the tiny European island, the Maltese are already making plans for what they will do if their favorite son’s son, Pete Buttigieg, is elected as the next U.S. president. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has even officially endorsed Buttigieg’s candidacy and has said he is proud to call him a friend.
“We will hold a parade for sure,” Maria Cutajar, a local florist, told The Daily Beast when asked what it would mean if he won. “It would be amazing to have a Maltese in the White House.”
Malta, which has an area of just 122 square miles, has been the site of numerous summits—it’s where U.S. President George H.W. Bush met Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War—and Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the island in December 1943.
The fact that Buttigieg is gay is the last thing on most Maltese people's minds. The island nation is leap years ahead of the rest of Europe in terms of gay marriage rights and same sex adoption rights, which has been especially slow to become law in Catholic countries in southern Europe. Locals are more concerned that his biggest problem is the country’s reputation for lawlessness.
Malta tends to be tied to corruption, whether for the sale of E.U. passports to wealthy Russians or to crime for the yet unsolved murder of muckraker journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. “It would be nice to be known for something good for a change,” Cutajar said.
But they won’t be renaming a Maltese street after the top Democrat—it would just be too confusing. You see, while Buttigieg has become somewhat of a comical challenge for Americans to pronounce, it is one of the most common last names on the tiny island state.
‘Mayor Pete’ as most people call the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because his last name is too unpronounceable, is the son of a well known Maltese immigrant Joseph Buttigieg, who taught at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana until his death in January 2019. The professor studied in London and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1979, but he also left a strong legacy in Malta. He was an external PhD examiner who often visited the university to lecture. He also continued until his illness to be an expert lecturer across Europe on Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher whose ideology is still embraced in many left-leaning circles.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-buttigieg-is-a-national-hero-in-malta
How Meghan explored her Maltese ancestry: Extraordinary unseen images show a happy and carefree royal-to-be wearing a traditional headdress a year before she first locked eyes with Prince Harry
The future Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex's great-great-grandmother was born in Malta in 1862
Meghan visited the country in March 2015, a year before she met Prince Harry, to learn about her ancestry
In the unseen snaps, Meghan is pictured happy and relaxed as she samples the local food and wine
Describing her visit in 2015, Meghan, who was working on Suits, confessed she 'blended in' with the locals
In an interview at the time, she said: 'There is something so lovely about fitting in a piece of the puzzle'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6438465/Extraordinary-photos-Meghan-Markle-Malta-2015.html
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