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I am writing to tell a story successami today (April 15, 2008).
My name is Elena, I am 23 years old, graduated in mathematics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, I'm attending the course in Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
Today I was in the courtroom, it was 14:00 in the afternoon, waiting for the start of my lesson, I was reading the newspaper with the results (disturbing) Election of these days, and here a guy (my age) rose on the platform of the chair and in front of an audience of about 30 people (all men, my right is a male domain) decision:
"Boys, then a moment's attention, but now I will explain the difference between an Italian and a Southerner. "
I puzzled in silence, rejoicing in the class.
Look, I tell myself not to go to prevent, to listen, could be the usual characters of which, two years from now, you can not escape, you turn it lightly and with as much light you have to accept ("thieving Rome "," Milan has, Rome wastes "," Milan of Italy's economic and moral, "etc. etc...)
The boy persists, "we said, the Southerner, my dear, is the typical man bassottello, plump and very dirty."
From the bottom of a screaming man's voice indistinct, "Olive, olive forget."
"True," the speaker apologizes, "Definitely Olivastra.
These words and the tone that you are taking the hoax began to scare me.
I do not understand the boundaries of the game.
One of them whispers to another: "Oh, he also voted League is not it? "
The other nods to do with pride.
Continue the boy to the chair: "The Southerner is characterized by an attitude typical parasite, which is why, my dear, I invite you to simply draw a line on the various maps of Italy. A simple line of demarcation. "
Now squirts with a boot on the chalk board and decided to do track with a horizontal line at the Po '.
ovation. Shouts and applause.
Rest there in disbelief and I still springs to mind the scene from the film "Life is Beautiful."
Benigni sulla cattedra con la fascia di sindaco in mezzo alle gambe e il suo beffardo sproloquio sulle caratteristiche della razza ariana.
Ricordo che, quando avevo visto “La vita è bella” per la prima volta, avevo immediatamente notato come Benigni mettesse l’accento sul fatto che certe idee, apparentemente bizzarre (come le superiorità fisiche della razza ariana), si erano diffuse in modo, potremmo dire, “proverbiale”, quasi come facessero parte di una cultura popolare, un modo di dire, un qualcosa di semplice che passa di bocca in bocca, una battuta scherzosa o un gioco tra amici, che alla fine diviene scontato, di dominio pubblico e indiscusso.
Ma è su questo tacito word of mouth, almost burlesque, which are based, then, laws and their tragic consequences that marked a profound and violent in the last century.
I'm going home with the fear of having attended one of these friendly "motions proverbial" port in my arm newspaper decrees million votes to the league.
Elena Bernardino
Boy, in a few days, week or month you no longer hear from me you start to worry ... guinea blood flows in me and I'm starting to have more fear of these people that the Mafia!
Boy, in a few days, week or month you no longer hear from me you start to worry ... guinea blood flows in me and I'm starting to have more fear of these people that the Mafia!
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