Posts from Rice in thread „Living here teaches you not to take things for granted“

Quote from serafina

I appreciate that when I have to visit a public office, I won't be attacked by aggressive public employees and that I won't be accused or addressed with an accusatory tone because 'by default' you are considered a criminal trying to cut corners.

I also appreciate that I am not discriminated for being a foreigner, which is something that has happened to me a number of times while I was in Italy.

You were considered a foreigner even after living in Italy your whole life, serafina ? What makes a person there a “real” Italian, having 6 generations of one’s family born there? Having a last name that ends in a vowel?

To someone growing up in the New World, such a medieval kind of thinking surely must be considered an almost comical conceit on the part of “real” countrymen.

Suspicious of what, UK Man ?

Just tonight, we were talking about people, including police, not being fixated on letter-of-the- law enforcement. I grew up in a place where you got a ticket if the front of your car extended an inch into the yellow line zone. Here, we saw a car being towed only after it was parked entirely in a yellow curb zone for the entire weekend.