Since becoming interested in politics, I’ve noticed a problem with how Italian progressives approach minority issues. In Italy, like in the rest of the Western world, there is a clear divide between the left and the right. The left tends to prioritize the rights of ethnic minorities and positions itself as their advocate, while the right has a more conservative vision and tends to exclude minorities, viewing them as foreign to the national society.This is particularly evident in my country, where the right-wing political forces in government have extremist roots. For example, the party of Premier Giorgia Meloni, “Brothers of Italy”, has ties to Italian neo-fascism, as evidenced by its retention of the tricolor flame in its logo, a symbol originating from the fascist era. The “League”, the second party in the coalition, was once a separatist party advocating for the secession of Northern Italy, but has since transformed into a nationalist and traditionalist formation under the leadership of Matteo Salvini, the current Minister of Infrastructure. The third-party, “Forza Italia”, is the historic party of Silvio Berlusconi, who proudly declared during a rally in 2019, “.”