The other morning I had an interesting conversation with my friend in Australia (the mother of a classmate), which essentially says one thing: if your prime minister is so, it means that you are well. As you can imagine, living in a foreign country and feel this kind of reasoning, it is not pleasant.
And there was no way to convince her that not all Italians are like the prime minister and that his was gross simplification, as when in the seventies Spiegel assimilates us to a nation of gangsters and criminals with the famous cover of P38 lies on plate of spaghetti. Yet we know that communication leads to simplifications and the recipient of a message does not always have the time, desire or even the tools to do a detailed analysis and transverse.
The message that has gone abroad is this: the Italians are like Berlusconi. That is something more and worse than average but wrote in the international press. The New York Times to the Guardian, the Times and the Daily Telegraph to the English popular press, journalists have made the most articulate analysis in which the Italian people is not simply equaled the power and often appears as an injured party.
The basic thesis is: Berlusconi of ridicule himself and his country. The Chronicles of bunga bunga evenings, parties topless, humiliating details, underage prostitutes, women forced to dress up as nurses to gratify the lust of the elderly prime minister, have shocked Italians and a first movement of protest has risen against the antics of the jester and his court.
For example, the Times newspaper owned by Murdoch and not properly of the extreme left, in urging the premier to resign wondered how it was possible that Berlusconi was still in the saddle after this crazy spectacle and bloody end of the empire. Absolutely incomprehensible to the conservative British newspaper, that "Italians are so inclusive of sexual peccadilloes, or admire the devilish machismo, and will not be able to see the enormous damage that their prime minister is doing to the country." The Financial Times, to cite another example, came out against Berlusconi (the gate Ruby is a shame) but saved the country ("Italy deserves better").
There are therefore two levels of interpretation: an absolutely negative, turned to politics, the prime minister and leaders of the government. And a more indulgent toward the majority of Italians who want to live in a modern democracy where political life is focused on "gender equality, ethical values and personal responsibility." Between this reading (the prime minister is unworthy, poor Italy) and the extreme synthesis of my Australian friends (you deserve because you're all so that Prime Minister), there is a big difference.
But the summaries are often extreme and therefore useless to try to explain. We hope that foreign journalists now that bring back some of the Italians are not like Berlusconi and in fact take to the streets to protest. We hope you will give account of everything, even of what happens on Sunday, February 13 when the women take to the streets to demand respect for their dignity.
So at least I can say to my Australian friends: the fact that not all Italians are like that? , February 8, 2011 
And there was no way to convince her that not all Italians are like the prime minister and that his was gross simplification, as when in the seventies Spiegel assimilates us to a nation of gangsters and criminals with the famous cover of P38 lies on plate of spaghetti. Yet we know that communication leads to simplifications and the recipient of a message does not always have the time, desire or even the tools to do a detailed analysis and transverse.
The message that has gone abroad is this: the Italians are like Berlusconi. That is something more and worse than average but wrote in the international press. The New York Times to the Guardian, the Times and the Daily Telegraph to the English popular press, journalists have made the most articulate analysis in which the Italian people is not simply equaled the power and often appears as an injured party.
The basic thesis is: Berlusconi of ridicule himself and his country. The Chronicles of bunga bunga evenings, parties topless, humiliating details, underage prostitutes, women forced to dress up as nurses to gratify the lust of the elderly prime minister, have shocked Italians and a first movement of protest has risen against the antics of the jester and his court.
For example, the Times newspaper owned by Murdoch and not properly of the extreme left, in urging the premier to resign wondered how it was possible that Berlusconi was still in the saddle after this crazy spectacle and bloody end of the empire. Absolutely incomprehensible to the conservative British newspaper, that "Italians are so inclusive of sexual peccadilloes, or admire the devilish machismo, and will not be able to see the enormous damage that their prime minister is doing to the country." The Financial Times, to cite another example, came out against Berlusconi (the gate Ruby is a shame) but saved the country ("Italy deserves better").
There are therefore two levels of interpretation: an absolutely negative, turned to politics, the prime minister and leaders of the government. And a more indulgent toward the majority of Italians who want to live in a modern democracy where political life is focused on "gender equality, ethical values and personal responsibility." Between this reading (the prime minister is unworthy, poor Italy) and the extreme synthesis of my Australian friends (you deserve because you're all so that Prime Minister), there is a big difference.
But the summaries are often extreme and therefore useless to try to explain. We hope that foreign journalists now that bring back some of the Italians are not like Berlusconi and in fact take to the streets to protest. We hope you will give account of everything, even of what happens on Sunday, February 13 when the women take to the streets to demand respect for their dignity.
So at least I can say to my Australian friends: the fact that not all Italians are like that? , February 8, 2011
- Berlusconi critics clash with police (06/02/2011)
- Protest held near Berlusconi's villa in Milan (06/02/2011)
- Berlusconi's critics protest near his northern Italy villa (06/02/2011)
- Protesters rally outside Berlusconi's villa - ABC Online (06/02/2011)
- Protesters stage rally outside Berlusconi's villa: photos (06/02/2011)
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