QUANDO GLI ITALIANI ALL'ESTERO ERANO DI MODA
"Italians abroad have not gone out of fashion": He wrote in an editorial that appeared in the leading Italian newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera, journalist Gian Antonio Stella.
The sentence certainly provocative, opens an article entitled even more explicit: "Italians abroad 'betrayed'"! An article written, mind you, not just one of the most experienced and knowledgeable in the history of our emigration abroad (one of the few, alas, Italian journalists who can write with knowledge of the facts of the phenomenon), but also one of greatest scourge of waste and theft of some Italian politicians.
Gian Antonio Stella is in fact famous for being in Italy (together with his colleague Sergio Rizzo) one of the authors of "Caste", the bestseller that has sold several million copies by fleas in our democratic institutions, recounting is detailed with accurate cost data and privileges. Less
copies, unfortunately, has sold another of his wonderful book, "When we were the Albanians" brief but clear and objective history of the 'diaspora' of the 28 million Italians in over a century of history unit were forced to leave our country. What does have
Italians abroad with caste, wastage of public administration with the Italian diaspora of Italians in the world?
A link is there, and emerges in a Star editorial of controversy but net.
Italian governments have always had afraid to really cut costs and privileges of a public administration that might 'lose weight' by reducing unnecessary subsidies obsolete structures and I think for example the "provinces", an intermediate administrative unit between the municipalities and regions that today constitute an unnecessary cost to the speakers State but that no government until now has had the guts to cut. The examples could go on, ranging far and wide among the folds of government benefits or costs of individual local authorities (municipalities, provinces, regions).
In Italy (and not only in Italy) is not easy to remove in deeds and not words to unnecessary spending and waste that are hidden in the budgets of these administrations. Where taglia invece, a man bassa e senza pietà? Su tutti (tutti !) i capitoli di bilancio destinati agli italiani che vivono all’estero, alla faccia del ‘debito storico’ del nostro Paese con questi nostri connazionali o della ‘risorsa straordinaria’ da essi rappresentati in tutti gli angoli del mondo. “Debito storico”, “risorsa straordinaria”: si tratta ormai di vecchi slogan, di frasi fatte e non più di moda, appunto, come recita l’articolo apparso qualche settimana fa sul “Corriere”.
Perché questo accade? Secondo la riflessione sviluppata dall’articolo di Gian Antonio Stella semplicemente per un cinico interesse di natura politica: gli italiani abroad do not vote in local elections (municipal, provincial and regional) and therefore can not react to the cuts imposed on them. Yes, someone will object, there is always so called voting abroad, achieved after years of achievements and now represented by eighteen members of Parliament elected by more than four million Italians abroad. But one vote away (you will vote only in 2013) that large sections of the majority supporting the government (and some members of the opposition) want to eliminate as soon as possible, or at least change to such an extent as to make it impervious to the claims of their descendants Italian living outside the national borders. Unfortunately
wickedness of those who has lined unpresentable people abroad in Italy, a voting mechanism too open to fraud and interference of organized crime (even as to who had the task of ensuring the fairness of the vote) have helped to undermine the law, exposing them to the mockery of the Italian public.
The same is happening with the right to Italian citizenship 'ius sanguinis' on the part of Italian descent, tarnished by people who have nothing to do with the honor and the law.
The best defense - at times - is to attack, this popular adage is also used in this case.
To defend the rights gained when (Apparently) we Italians abroad were "fashionable" we must protect them by offering credible solutions that could improve the system of voting abroad, at the same time we must demand from our judiciary and the diplomatic-consular network the maximum penalty to those who were performed in Italy and abroad, actions and events that have affected almost sacred right to the heart, namely the granting of citizenship through the "blood" of our brave ancestors.
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L'ANNO CHE VERRA'
Why and when the Italians have moved to be the saddest people in Europe and how to do it once again become the people nice and friendly that the whole world has known.
Italy has changed, is no longer the same, it is more similar to itself, or - better - it is more like the image that everyone in the world we got a beautiful country: Italy happy and carefree, the country of the happy life of the legendary warmth and friendliness of its people no longer exists.
A finding that until recently it was usually done by our emigrants on their return home, or the country of their grandparents or great-grandparents, where was that people cheerful and hospitable, welcoming and always ready to stop smiling and disinterested? Today the first to admit that change, this real trasformazione o metamorfosi della loro maniera di essere sono gli stessi italiani. Sconsolatamente e con una certa rassegnazione.
Perché tutto questo è avvenuto e, soprattutto, quando è iniziato questo processo che ha trasformato nel giro di pochi decenni gli italiani dal popolo più felice a quello più pessimista d’Europa?
Per trovare una risposta e forse anche una data dobbiamo fare un salto all’indietro di circa trent’anni. Siamo nella seconda metà degli anni’70, quando esplode in Italia con tutta la sua virulenza il fenomeno del terrorismo. Attentati, sparatorie, sequestri di persona, sono all’ordine del giorno. Improvvisamente, in particolare nelle grandi città, si comincia to be afraid to go out at night to go to crowded places, you become suspicious of a neighbor or colleague just sitting in the desk next to ours.
My parents gave up at the last moment to move from Sicily to Rome to fear, yes, the fear of losing the security that a small provincial town could offer to a family with school-age children.
were also the years of the so-called "reflux." After the great post-war democratic participation, the social achievements of the center-left governments of the collective euphoria of students and workers in the sixty / sixty-nine, the policy is no longer fashionable; enters the vehemence with private enter crisis in the 'great myths' collective.
In those years, Lucio Dalla, one of the most famous Italian singers abroad, wrote a song called "The coming year" in which he describes in his own way and with the magical power of music and words intelligently combined the climate of that period. The song is a letter to a friend, written a few days after the end of one of those dark years, and heavy: "My dear friend I write - Lucio sings - so I get distracted a bit, 'and since you're far stronger than I will write" .
After a few verses here as the singer describes the climate of those years: "It just comes out at night, including when party, there are those who put bags of sand near the window (...) and he is not talking for weeks, and those who have things to say time is left. "
In these thirty years Italy has changed and more Italians are changed, the years of ebb and terrorism followed the years of "clean hands" and the entry of our country in the Europe of the single currency, with the transition from lira to the euro, a long period of low economic growth, rising unemployment and difficult to maintain for the Italian families of welfare levels obtained previously. Right up to recent times dominated by the "Berlusconi" e dal “leghismo”. Il partito di Berlusconi e la Lega Nord hanno in qualche modo incarnato meglio di qualsiasi altro movimento questo disagio e questa difficoltà del Paese ad uscire dalla spirale perversa nel quale è entrata negli anni ’80. Lo hanno fatto, a mio avviso, accentuando gli aspetti e gli effetti negativi di questa crisi, rafforzandone le tentazioni alla chiusura e all’isolamento del Paese e non le speranze di apertura e di cambiamento. La grave disattenzione di questi ultimi anni verso gli italiani nel mondo e le politiche severe e xenofobe in materia di immigrazione ne sono uno degli esempi più lampanti.
Eppure, nonostante questo scenario certamente non ottimista, come italiano non voglio perdere la speranza to see my people recover those values \u200b\u200band characteristics that over the centuries have made it fun, unique and inimitable in the eyes of the world. And I believe that this miracle will be achieved thanks to the many millions of foreigners in Italy and Italians in the world.
"The year is coming - From the song ended - in a year's end, I'm getting ready and this is news!"
Why and when the Italians have moved to be the saddest people in Europe and how to do it once again become the people nice and friendly that the whole world has known.
Italy has changed, is no longer the same, it is more similar to itself, or - better - it is more like the image that everyone in the world we got a beautiful country: Italy happy and carefree, the country of the happy life of the legendary warmth and friendliness of its people no longer exists.
A finding that until recently it was usually done by our emigrants on their return home, or the country of their grandparents or great-grandparents, where was that people cheerful and hospitable, welcoming and always ready to stop smiling and disinterested? Today the first to admit that change, this real trasformazione o metamorfosi della loro maniera di essere sono gli stessi italiani. Sconsolatamente e con una certa rassegnazione.
Perché tutto questo è avvenuto e, soprattutto, quando è iniziato questo processo che ha trasformato nel giro di pochi decenni gli italiani dal popolo più felice a quello più pessimista d’Europa?
Per trovare una risposta e forse anche una data dobbiamo fare un salto all’indietro di circa trent’anni. Siamo nella seconda metà degli anni’70, quando esplode in Italia con tutta la sua virulenza il fenomeno del terrorismo. Attentati, sparatorie, sequestri di persona, sono all’ordine del giorno. Improvvisamente, in particolare nelle grandi città, si comincia to be afraid to go out at night to go to crowded places, you become suspicious of a neighbor or colleague just sitting in the desk next to ours.
My parents gave up at the last moment to move from Sicily to Rome to fear, yes, the fear of losing the security that a small provincial town could offer to a family with school-age children.
were also the years of the so-called "reflux." After the great post-war democratic participation, the social achievements of the center-left governments of the collective euphoria of students and workers in the sixty / sixty-nine, the policy is no longer fashionable; enters the vehemence with private enter crisis in the 'great myths' collective.
In those years, Lucio Dalla, one of the most famous Italian singers abroad, wrote a song called "The coming year" in which he describes in his own way and with the magical power of music and words intelligently combined the climate of that period. The song is a letter to a friend, written a few days after the end of one of those dark years, and heavy: "My dear friend I write - Lucio sings - so I get distracted a bit, 'and since you're far stronger than I will write" .
After a few verses here as the singer describes the climate of those years: "It just comes out at night, including when party, there are those who put bags of sand near the window (...) and he is not talking for weeks, and those who have things to say time is left. "
In these thirty years Italy has changed and more Italians are changed, the years of ebb and terrorism followed the years of "clean hands" and the entry of our country in the Europe of the single currency, with the transition from lira to the euro, a long period of low economic growth, rising unemployment and difficult to maintain for the Italian families of welfare levels obtained previously. Right up to recent times dominated by the "Berlusconi" e dal “leghismo”. Il partito di Berlusconi e la Lega Nord hanno in qualche modo incarnato meglio di qualsiasi altro movimento questo disagio e questa difficoltà del Paese ad uscire dalla spirale perversa nel quale è entrata negli anni ’80. Lo hanno fatto, a mio avviso, accentuando gli aspetti e gli effetti negativi di questa crisi, rafforzandone le tentazioni alla chiusura e all’isolamento del Paese e non le speranze di apertura e di cambiamento. La grave disattenzione di questi ultimi anni verso gli italiani nel mondo e le politiche severe e xenofobe in materia di immigrazione ne sono uno degli esempi più lampanti.
Eppure, nonostante questo scenario certamente non ottimista, come italiano non voglio perdere la speranza to see my people recover those values \u200b\u200band characteristics that over the centuries have made it fun, unique and inimitable in the eyes of the world. And I believe that this miracle will be achieved thanks to the many millions of foreigners in Italy and Italians in the world.
"The year is coming - From the song ended - in a year's end, I'm getting ready and this is news!"
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