Beppe Severgnini olasz
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Katalógusnév | Severgnini, Beppe |
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First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's alluring, but complicated. In Italia, you can go round and round in circles for years. Which of course is great fun.
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Beppe Severgnini: La bella figura A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Ours is a sophisticated exhibitionism that has no need of an audience. Italians are psychologically self-sufficient.
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Beppe Severgnini: La bella figura A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
„Never judge a book by its cover” sounds like an oversimplification in Italian. We judge books by their covers, politicians by their smiles, professionals by their offices, secretaries by their posture, table lamps by their design, cars by their styling, and people by their title. It's no coincidence that one Italian in four is president of something. Look at the ads here in the airport. They are for cars, bags, and cosmetics. They don't say how good the products are. They tell us how irresistible we'll be if we buy them. As if we Italians needed that kind of reassurance.
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