I would like to restore the link to an article by Camilleri that I think says a lot about Italy. Written by someone who has seen a lot of Italians.
We carry the first few lines, then I invite you to read on the site MicroMega
Notes for a definition
Camilleri: What is an Italian
Andrea Camilleri [This essay, already on Limesonline , due out in late July on LIMES, Italian review of geopolitics directed by Lucio Caracciolo ]
I'm not a historian, a sociologist, anthropologist, none of this. I'm just a storyteller, an Italian novelist particularly careful, yes, to his countrymen.
So it is no coincidence that all references to support or excuse may be drawn from literature, not history books.
So everything that follows, and that will certainly turn up the mouths of experts, must be taken with a pinch of salt.
General Introduction
If you try to change the question in what a French or German, you can answer relatively easily, perhaps by matching a series of platitudes.
Sure, the Italians were minted clichés, like "Italians good people" but I do not think that the Abyssinians gassed Libyans deported or are of the same opinion. And, without going too far back in history, I do not think I can agree that even the immigrants who daily land on our shores.
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Then I would also like to add this video to Youtube, for all the friends who think that after all fascism served to make the train arrive on time and that if it were not for the war, the leader would well done to Italy.
