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Dua Lipa rejected the way in which the ministers of Great Britain have referred, in recent days, to immigrants and He called them “short-sighted and narrow-minded.”
The pop star was born in London, but her parents are Kosovar Albanians, so she claimed that the way in which the Government expressed itself about the Albanians caused him “pain” and he asked for “more empathy”.
What did the UK government say?
Britain’s Home Secretary, Suella Bravermanhighlighted in his recent statements to the “Albanian criminals”, when he alleged that there was “an invasion” of England in a House of Commons debate on small boat crossings across the Channel.
After these statements, Dua Lipa said in an interview for Sunday Times that: “Of course it hurt. All those words that are said about immigrants? I always felt that London was an amalgamation of cultures that is integral to the city. So when you hear the government talk about Albanians, for example, it hurts.”
The singer accepted with great sadness that This way of expressing themselves by civil servants is “the way many people think (…) no matter how we try to change the rhetoric”.
“Immigrants are entering the country and taking jobs,” is one of the preconceptions that Lipa regrets that exist, and stated that the idea she has is that people are forced to leave their home countries and come to places like London to “earn their keep by working incredibly hard”.
The Grammy winner asked that in the United Kingdom there must be “more empathy because people do not leave their country unless they have to, out of necessity or out of fear that something will happen to their families.”
Dua Lipa’s Family
Anesa and Dukagjin LipaThey are the parents of Dua Lipa, and they left Kosovo in 1992, when tensions began that ended in a war six years later.
The Prime Minister of AlbaniaEddie Ramaemphasized that part of the pop icon’s story, after criticizing the “very, very shameful” discrimination against Albanians by ministers, in particular braverman.
“She’s not just a British singer, she’s an Albanian immigrant who came here, like many, to build, take care of, cook and sing for you,” he said. Eddie.
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