There was a nasty article in the UK's Sunday Times last Sunday about Albania. Now I know Albania has some problems but this article was pretty vicious. What the author described was somewhat true, if you are looking for a negative side to everything. Maybe I'm the opposite and try to look at the positives whenever I write about Albania. The article has caused quite a stir in the Albanian community and I wonder if the article wasn't designed to do just that.
Some things he wrote include describing Albania as a 'crumbling commie squalor' and its people as 'short and ferret-faced, with the unisex stumpy, slightly bowed legs of shetland ponies'. I can't criticise the article too much because it is true-ish. It's just a harsh way to go about describing one of the unluckiest countries in the world. The people don't deserve that. Maybe the article was supposed to be humourous and some comments he made are but there is really no need to be nasty just to get a laugh.
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