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> We're talking about national cultures, stereotypes and statistical averages. Exactly, stereotypes... and no, they're not true. I live in Italy and know Russi
by danmaz74 12y ago
> We're talking about national cultures, stereotypes and statistical averages.
Exactly, stereotypes... and no, they're not true. I live in Italy and know Russia well enough, and Russia is much more corrupted than Italy. How much northern than Russia can you go?
Cultural problem? Yes. Latitude-related problem? No. Linking this to latitude is like linking problems to the color of your skin: you can't change the color of your skin, nor your latitude. Culture, on the other hand, can and does change.
BTW Italy has indeed a big problem with corruption, but one funny thing is that most Italians like to publicly bash Italy, so the relative perception of corruption is even higher than it actually should be, especially vs countries where most people think "right or wrong, my Country" ;)
- ptaipale 12y agoWell, Russia is neither North or South in this context, it is East. There's also a slant so that it's perhaps Nort-West compared to South-East. But I also have the perception that within Italy, there is quite a strong north-south divide? Turin and Milan are quite different from Naples and Palermo, also in the mind of Italians, regarding level of corruption?
- danmaz74 12y agoDon't you think this North/South rule is starting to get a little too many exceptions? In Italy, too, there are big variations, but they aren't really so correlated to latitude (even if many people superficially think that way). Most of Sardinia is south of Naples, but the disrespect for rules/corruption is much lower (eg in Cagliari, which is a lot to the south of Naples). It's just not as simple as that.