FLASH
Shkruar nga Artan Fuga
Why aren't there Western countries, even in North America, where you have to tip waiters, hoteliers, taxi drivers, barbers, and many, many other professions, otherwise you'll be in trouble? Where is our culture of tipping and corruption that characterized us as a nation and as a people, and others don't recognize this culture?
After Kos more or less meant that corruption has soured like spoiled milk, turning Albanian society into curd, and that it is society, not simply various important institutions, that is corrupt, the sea has become sour!
It was enough for corruption defenders to say that it is the culture of corruption and bribery in Albanian society that has ruined our state, governance, civil servants, and so on.
In a word, corruption is in our genes, in our tradition, it is part of our national identity, while in the West there are cultured nations that do not respect corruption. The blame for the tips we pay and the corruption of the officials we bear on our shoulders lies with us, who suffer from them!!!
You touch your head with your hand, you close your eyes, thinking you're dreaming, it's not what they say. The battle between the civil service and government politics turns out to be being waged against its own people because waves of corruption and bribery come from the backward people.
What a tradition! The Albanian farmer who in history produced for himself would corrupt himself rather than with someone else he would do it with. He lived in a closed economy. And the Albanian artisan traditionally had no one to corrupt because he produced his own goods, with his own tools, for the market. He set the price for the goods and was paid. That's it.
Where is the tradition of corruption here in traditional production methods for someone to say that our traditional culture is the gene of corruption?
If that were the case, how is it possible that the vast majority of those hundreds of thousands of Albanian immigrants have integrated into a society where corruption does not eat away at the state from within like it does in our country? On the contrary, they have learned to live with honest work and in what conditions...
Is it in our culture to tip? Is it in our genes or are we asked to do so by our employees, people who won't provide you with service unless you tip them generously, generously, generously or generously!
Why aren't there Western countries, even in North America, where you have to tip waiters, hoteliers, taxi drivers, barbers, and many, many other professions, otherwise you'll be in trouble? Where is our culture of tipping and corruption that characterized us as a nation and as a people, and others don't recognize this culture?
Do they mean to say that there were Albanians who built drug and illegal money networks in emigration? So if that's the case, what comes out of this? Who do they collaborate with, who do they sell to, who do they have partners? Foreigners or Albanians? Why drugs, prostitution, the mafia everywhere, gangs, when was a West created? When did Albanians go, or did they find these networks there?
But within the country, who gives tenders with tips and illegal benefits? What does justice say? Does it give to people who have their hands in their pockets or is it the officials, often high-ranking ones, who do it? Where are the people here?
Where is the cult of tipping, corruption, stealing other people's money, and robbery in traditional Albanian culture? Naimi, Gjergj Fishta, Ndre Mejda, who sang about it?
Is there a spread of tipping among the population today? Yes, there is, but only the ignorant in the sociology of culture claim that in society it is the man who is part of the broad strata who imitates the bureaucratic-political elites and not the one who has a lower status who imitates the one who has a higher status. See the grapes and the grapes ripen. When the entire government life, the bureaucracy is filled with corrupt affairs that are talked about day and night, what will the citizen think?
These people have stolen, looted property, robbed everything, and are living beyond their means. Why should I respect a morality that is hypocritical?
We understand that there are people who are tempted by theft, corruption, and bribery, but the question is: is the system of government organized to curb them? Or to let them run wild?
Where is the separation of powers for them to control each other?
Where is the status of the public servant so that he is not protected or abused by politics and bosses?
Where is the administrative control that has left legal violations fueled by corruption and that are being caught by the Supreme State Audit Office, SPAK, etc.?
The founder of sociology, Durkheim, said it well: As soon as the punishment for crime is weakened, the more criminality increases. And he wasn't saying this about Albanians, but about Western populations!
What is the tip that people pay to officials or to various service offices? A hidden tax, an artificially increased price, a purchase with money of a right that the law recognizes, but Maliqi denies! Is there a theory that has claimed that the one who pays this financial supplement is the one who encourages corruption and the tip, and not the one who receives it!
Nuk eshet vetem Shqiperia e korruptuar, edhe ne Finland ka korrupsion te nivelit kriminal!