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...agree. Italy has plenty of tiny parties that those who feel disenfranchised could support instead of the Lega. Yet the suggestion that 10 percent of Italians are just plain racist also seems too simplistic. I have decided that my mission this summer is to understand what has happened in Italy??s psyche to bring it to this point. So far, the answer I’ve come up with is twofold...
...Italy??s identity crisis has been going on for at least 15 years, if not more. Why would anti-immigration sentiment become increasingly popular and widespread now? To understand the second aspect of this xenophobia, I draw upon a lesson I learned from Ec10 (words I thought I would never write): Times of crisis, in particular slow economic growth, are bad for democracy. William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy Professor Benjamin M. Friedman’s April 6th lecture, “The Economic and Financial Crisis: Also a Moral Threat,” suggested that anti...
...fact: you made out with your sister,” I’m afraid I have to report from Rome that some Italians are not too pleased with some of the “kinky, steamy European sex” that Silvio Berlusconi, Italy??s Prime Minister, may or may not have taken part...
...Liberta—People of Liberty) did not do nearly as well as predicted in the recent EU elections. Berlusconi had anticipated that the party would receive 40 percent of the vote, but in fact it only accrued 35 percent. Berlusconi himself has admitted that the scandal has damaged Italy??s reputation...
...favor a lot of Berlusconi’s policy, but I have to agree with him here: What politicians do in their bedrooms is, frankly, none of the public’s business. My internship requires that I read the Italian papers daily and follow the wires from ANSA (Italy??s version of the AP). While I enjoy this part of my job, I do not want to read anymore about the Italian prime minister’s prostate. As long as he is having consensual sexual relations (nb: the age of consent in Italy...