What about our national identity?

Abstract

'National identity', to which reference is made en passant by the three members of the Dahrendorf Commission in the report on our University submitted to the Prime Minister, can mean so many things to so many people; but, at the same time, like most other vaguely worded phrases, it can mean so very little too, not so much because it lacks context as because its context has not been clearly and unambiguously defined. Foreigners, even if they are known as experts (this word has assumed a pejorative connotation in Malta), generally know much less about us than we know about ourselves and our society.