Friday, May 24, 2013

Italian genes

The Italian Invasion of American Culture - Taki's Magazine:

"nurture and nature worked together to make Italy a place where you definitely want to visit although you might not want to live there. "

Lived there for a year, have visited 3 times since.

Beautiful. And crazy. The fictional country called Italy is really a kind of overlay on the regions and cities and towns where these people actually think they live. As the Romans like to say, To the north of us, they're all really Germans, to the south, Arabs. We're the only true Italians.

(With apologies to my local Calabrese.)

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Living on the East Coast, the Italian influence is most definitely visible. This was immigration done right: submit to the history and customs of the country you are living in, but add something from your original culture to the whole. Do not presume that your culture overrides ours.

-Sean

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