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Celebrating Freedom

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This is a neat off-topic but, besides being a human and a european citizen, I’m an Italian: as in the next week (precisely on March 17, 2011) Italy will celebrate its 150th anniversary of unification, I’d like for a moment to speak out to all you guys coming to this blog from ’round the world.

Italy had a great past made by giants; unfortunately, it has currently a troubled present made by embarrassing dwarves: despite this sad situation, please do NOT believe to the traditional stereotypes which infamously depict Italians — Italy is a complex country populated both by lovely persons and pure bastards, as any other country. :-)


In this particular historical moment my thought goes, full of admiration, to the brave people of Northern Africa and all the other Arabs and Persians who are fighting for their freedom: as a European, I apologize for the weak political and humanitarian response of the Union’s institutions to their efforts for emancipating themselves from dictatorships. History is moving!

Written by stechio

March 7, 2011 at 11:43 pm

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