Showing posts with label Italian Silvio Berlusconi ruby-gate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italian Silvio Berlusconi ruby-gate. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

You Italian? Sietecome Berlusconi

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.