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Italy really knows how to focus on what’s really important to address challenges like high unemployment and weak economy.
by alex_suzuki 4y ago
Italy really knows how to focus on what’s really important to address challenges like high unemployment and weak economy.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoMany parallels with what’s happening on the other side of the pond. Universally applicable tactics.
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- tacone 4y agoItalians lose wars as if they were football matches, and football matches as if they were wars - Winston Churchill
- borroka 4y agoLike many of the things that were said ironically in the past, this one has aged badly. Yes, Italians could be very passionate about the results of football matches. However, Churchill did not have to see how the English interpreted soccer matches in the 1970s and 1980s. Hooligans, for those too young, interpreted football games as wars. But not in the sense of passion for the sport, as they were killing fans of other teams in ways similar to wars. Fortunately, things change over time. It is also interesting how some ethnic groups or nations can be the object of ridicule without anyone protesting (all of Southern Europe, for example), while for other ethnic groups or nations there would be protests all over the world at the slightest hint of an attempt to ridicule them.
- beebeepka 4y ago[flagged]
- jjgreen 4y agoChurchill suggested that chemical weapons should be used “against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment.” He added “I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes to spread a lively terror” in Iraq. https://english.alarabiya.net/special-reports/winston-churchill/2015/02/19/Was-Churchill-advocate-of-chemical-weapons-use-in-Mideast- https://english.alarabiya.net/special-reports/winston-church...
- barrysteve 4y agoProbably never said it [0]. Those kinds of quotes are unlikely to be understood in today's cultural lense, because people don't see the world in national identities and the meaning those identities carried, like they used to 1800-1940. [0] https://richardlangworth.com/quotes-churchill-never-said-2 https://richardlangworth.com/quotes-churchill-never-said-2
- borroka 4y agoIt is a very poor argument and ignores the fact that the lives of people, institutions and countries are not just about (the very important) jobs and economics. I, who have lived in the United States for decades, cringe when English words are used instead of those of my native language to give a sense of respectability to those words. A global culture and a world homogenized in ways of living is a much less interesting world.
- linhns 4y agoYes, and if you actually read the bill (I'm not Italian, just trying to translate it online), it just bans other languages in official documentation, which every country does. I'm surprised Italy has not done it until now.
- kuboble 4y agoFrom the article i understood it goes deeper. It includes all official communication like job offers - not limited to public institutions. So you could be fined for having a position for "Product Manager" or "Test Engineer", etc.
- linhns 4y agoIf you advertise these positions in English, that's fine. But must be Italian in official contracts.
- mmarq 4y agoNo, its probably broader than that, but it’s not written very clearly. And it doesn’t matter because every year some new idiot emerges to propose laws like this, that are never approved and often not even discussed in Parliament.
- aniforprez 4y agoI'm sure it is very important that the government make it a punishable offense to say "bru-shetta" instead of "brus-ketta" for the word bruschetta. This is the kind of important government regulation that makes for a productive use of parliament time and the votes of the people
- gordian-mind 4y agoJust because there are other problems that are more pressing or severe doesn't mean that the proposed solution to a particular problem is not worth pursuing.
- ryandrake 4y agoI guess it depends on whether the amount of effort applied to solving the problems is proportional to the severity of the problems. On this side of the Atlantic, we have a catastrophic opioid epidemic, crumbling infrastructure, inflation and recession, failing national and state-level institutions, mass shootings, growing income inequality, race- and class-warfare, and out-of-control policing. But what are ~50% of our politicians currently focusing on? What genitals people have and what bathroom they should be allowed to go in.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoDivide et impera. We've yet to develop antibodies to that as a species.
- gordian-mind 4y agoI would rather that all of your politicians focus on genitals. Maybe that would stop them from agitating for war on the other side of the planet. But thank God that 'America is back,' am I right? Anyway, the subject was Italy's policies. As for your guess, there is actually a group of people whose role, among others, is to assess the correct amount of effort applied to solving a problem: they're called Italian voters.
- truthsayer123 4y ago[flagged]
- meerita 4y agoIt's important to remember that just because the press may highlight certain topics more frequently, it doesn't necessarily mean that the government is not putting enough effort into other essential issues.