Dear friends,
a quick (hopefully) post on a sensitive issue. Since well before you start talking about the 150th anniversary of the Italian Republic happened would put a simple question to my casual passers-by, "What unites the Italians?"
Question misplaced friends ... It would be the first to ask: "There are Italians? And if so ... Who am I?" The problem is that I place identity.
not uncomfortable recent events and television political talk, as usual, I take it from afar and in a completely abstract. What does the identity of a people, a nation? A common historical past. A substantial unity of language, customs and culture. On this basis, however, the question becomes unsolvable. Yes, because ... Italy has something that many, if not all, countries of the world envy us ... For example, the varieties' habits, tastes, landscapes and, perhaps, even of language, given the huge range of dialects that are spoken in our area. And 'this negative wealth? I think not. So the problem of national identity as a place above has one exception: us. In these terms, I doubt you can very common to find an identity.
To find heroes "national" we often have to resort to a distant past. Heroes, however, whether national or not, because in most cases they did not even our notion of Italy is very little concern or to build a national identity. Heroes, compared with other greats of the past foreigners seem to fade away, in a kind of provincialism immelmati congenital very noticeable (I'm thinking of the historical comparisons to Wagner or Verdi-Manzoni-Hugo, I have deliberately chosen from among their contemporaries in order to avoid contradiction ). To be impervious we appeal to Dante, the great Renaissance painters such as Leonardo, for some poets insuperable in time and space as Leopardi. But we seem to lack credibility. Why? I think one factor is due to the fact that our recent past, the twentieth century, does not hold, except in some rare cases, the comparison with other cultural experiences abroad (maybe speak to this theme again). The lack of real national heroes in this sense reflects the variegation of the above. And then there's another big problem. In our "nationalism", which we have suffered the fascist dictatorship, historically means to give voice to the empty words of D'Annunzio, Mussolini's propaganda proclamations, it means a sinister scheme to make up for outdated militaristic. In this welter of issues back to the point. The
Italians do not exist as such. So not quite make sense to ask what unites them. And yet ... A constant is common ... The ability to express a different local perseverance and tenacity are unique. This thing can become bad or good depending on your point of view that you want to take. You can exaggerate or separatist Northern League and become the Sardinians. That the Neapolitan medium feel proudly different from Adige is understandable. You can also happily accept this environment, as the youth of the state. Or do better ... Consider this an absolute constant and in which we recognize as "Italians", without falling into provincialism neither excessive nor in naive professions of communalism.
In other states there are local, diversity, problems of living together. It would be stupid to think other states as monoliths devoid of heterogeneous parts. But we have only taken this system a natural tendency of the local world. Think how fortunate we are to go to another region to sample a new dish or a landscape very different from that at home!
I do not know if we can be proud of if the price is a total absence of national communion. But right now the situation is this. Right now appeals to a "common flag" at risk of becoming artificial, a bit of propaganda and not very conscious of our own (see? OUR) beautiful diversity that should not be exploited or made absolute, but only peacefully accepted as part of our being "Italian." An Italian
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