Othmane Yassine has been one of the speakers at NRW workshop.
Below we reproduce a shorter version of the article published by Margherita De Gasperis on Nuove Radici World (NRW). The original version is available here. Othmane Yassine, Fermignano councillor in his second term, has been one of the speakers at NRW workshop “Diversity leadership in active policies”, held on the 22nd of April in Genoa. During this event, he talked about his experience and the push he felt to start doing politics in a town that was previously governed by an anti-immigration party. Othmane Yassine also explained the importance of having people belonging to minority groups in public institutions.
Using his own words: “We are flag bearers of a minority, of a certain sensitivity towards needs that an indigenous person does not see. We see things that those born with the fundamental rights already guaranteed by their predecessors, who created their society according to their cultural needs, do not know”. At the end of his speech, he finally proposed an idea of “diversity 3.0”, conceived as “a diversity no longer internal to nations but European, made up of fast and globalised phenomena”, and he argued that “we have to get used to a broader concept of citizenship, an administrative tool that grants you certain rights. This is political freedom, a politics that detaches itself from the identity dimension and does not defend only an ethnicity, or a religion”.
