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arrives for all time to lose some of its innocence to face facts: the clichés lead the world.
No need to move in a multicultural city, vibrant and open to foreigners like London; your stereotypes follow you anywhere. London is home to several communities of different cultures and often distant, every year many moving in this city out of necessity or to snatch the spirit, yet something remains unchanged. Among the workers who crowd the restaurant sector of its faculty and students often comes the same "box" permeated with convenient stereotypes and clichés.
groped behind me to prove that there are no obvious cases and worthy of interracial and intercultural cooperation, but something falls like a sword of Damocles over the heads of the guests in London. Platitudes that meets the Italian who came to London? Is labeled as the Sicilian immigrant in search of education?
Part of our history we chasing here, even in a place that could be considered "neutral."
In many cultures are studied in London School of complex and steeped in history and tradition: the Muslim, Chinese, Japanese and many others that are considered "minority cultures" and as such to be protected. Among
paradigms of integration and political correctness have tried not to tie a mark that ethnicity may in any way denigrate. This diplomacy inherent in English culture is highly efficient: it guarantees to all, at least theoretically, the right integration and research, with a little 'luck and virtue, to build a bright future in this city. What disturbs
then this perfect mechanism? Digging a little below the surface you find a common place known to almost all the Italians who have been lucky enough to travel abroad: the Italian mafia is, pizza and politics in a state of decay.
You could say that there is nothing in these totally false allegations, but the carelessness and absolute candor with which they pronounced it burns deep in the soul of who, aware of the compromises remain to be addressed on Italian soil, decided to move elsewhere.
But what I would like to bring to the attention of all is the common understanding of the Sicilian. It seems almost trite to say that this is more true victim of clichés, sometimes deservedly, sometimes not.
The Sicilian is not even considered a minority has suffered centuries of domination, even if its culture and tradition will disappear under the weight of corruption and oblivion, albeit in Italian soil hardship to maintain a positive image. The Sicilian is not a minority because it is part of the dominant culture, its self-criticism allows members of other cultures to candidly point out the dark moments of its history. The Sicilian has no difficulties in moving within Europe and the just compensation for that luck is the lack of retention of many other foreigners on the label.
What is in the XXI century reminded Italy of Mussolini has influenced its history? Is there not also been a strong tradition of partisan? What is remind him that the Mafia is alive and well today, the dark years of the Christian Democrats, corruption, and his miserable present? What it reminded Italy will probably emigrate because his university will be destroyed in the deep? Who benefits from racial strife that remind you consume in the Italian territory stained with the blood of Italy who made it?
Nothing, especially if all you get from these reminders are only four critical money with the sole purpose of adding color to the image of Italian folklore, like olive Buckwheat, the cannoli, the prickly pear and marranzano Sicily.
Who ask yourself whether this is a martyr for the poor Italian countered immediately that there is no prize that the average Italian merits today. However, like any other Italian history and culture that perhaps does not deserve to be studied in depth before being labeled as easy paradigms? We easily forget that even today there is a silent resistance to degradation or not, that for every known journalist who sells out, many others work in the basement of Italian culture.
Some might rightly argue that the Italian and especially Sicilian, implementing exactly the same process against Guests immigrants.
Well this does not justify the widespread, especially in each case there is always an exception. E 'must also be stressed that in Italy it invests little in promoting Italian culture and the literary and historical past and present Italian spends much more often by word of mouth. It is unacceptable to think, however, to judge something you know only in part?
Groped to extract from the history of centuries of events where all the Italians (or at least we assume it is) is not perhaps as they are proud to think of Germans as the people that allowed the extermination of the Jews, to Americans as the Bronx and guns , as the Brazilian Favelas, scantily dressed women and promiscuity and polygamy and the Muslims as terrorists? These complex cultures are exploited in the crystallization of their image worse.
The paradigm of the enemy, the other of warmongering, of half-naked is easily exploitable to the worst purposes.
Although only a minority should think in terms of the Italian mafia, pizza and politics in decay, not just the minority creeping influences public opinion? How difficult is it in practical terms to convince another foreigner that every Italian mafia and every Muslim is a terrorist? Partly, it seems. The fact that this review of four money circles the mouth of students educated in prestigious faculty is incredibly dangerous.
not talk at all is therefore the perfect ending? No, if there is sure to be informed about the causes, effects and exceptions, or if it is at least willing to change his mind. If someone, like me, you take care to emphasize that there is nothing sensible to draw easy conclusions in our history will show a benign smile on his face or recall at best a long awkward silence.
Bruna Scuderi
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